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    "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents",
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        "medicine": "Anaesthesia, germ theory, vaccination, and antisepsis gradually transform care, with sharp inequalities of access.",
        "transport": "Rail and steamship shrink distances; horses, walking, and carriages remain ordinary in town and country.",
        "agriculture": "Machinery, fertilizers, breeding, and rail transport expand output and markets without eliminating manual labour or food crises.",
        "communication": "Telegraphy, mass newspapers, photography, post, and the emerging telephone speed news and business.",
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            "text": "From Abraham Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne [Typescript], December 19, 1854\n\n[Marginal note:\n\nWashburne Copy.\n\n(Correct.)]\n\nSPRINGFIELD, Dec. 19, 1854\n\nMy dear Sir:\n\nYours of the 12th just received. The objection of your friend at Winnebago rather astonishes me. For a Senator to be the impartial representative of his whole State, is so plain a duty, that I pledge myself to the observance of it without hesitation; but not without some mortification that any one should suspect me of an inclination to the contrary. I was eight years a representative of Sangamon County in the Legislature; and, although, in a conflict of interests between that and other counties, it perhaps would have been my duty to stick to Old Sangamon; yet it is not within my recollection that the Northern members ever wanted my vote for any interest of theirs, without getting it. My distinct recollection is, that the Northern members, and Sangamon members, were always on good terms, and always co-operating on measures of policy. The cause Canal was then the great Northern measure, and it, from first to last, had our votes as readily as the votes of the North itself. Indeed, I shall be surprized if it can be pointed out that in any instance, the North sought our aid, and failed to get it.\n\nAgain, I was a member of Congress one term — the term when Mr. Turner was the legal member, and you were a lobby member from your then District. Now I think I might appeal to Mr. Turner and yourself whether you did not always have my feeble service for the asking. In the case of conflict, I might without blame, have preferred my own District. As a Senator, I should claim no right, as I should feel no inclination to give the central portion of the State any preference over the North, or any other portion of it.\n\nVery truly yours friend,\n\nA. Lincoln",
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            "text": "D'Abraham Lincoln à Elihu B. Washburne [Tapuscrit], 19 décembre 1854\n\n[Note marginale :\n\nCopie Washburne.\n\n(Correct.)]\n\nSPRINGFIELD, 19 déc. 1854\n\nMon cher Monsieur,\n\nJe viens de recevoir votre lettre du 12. L'objection de votre ami de Winnebago m'étonne quelque peu. Qu'un sénateur soit le représentant impartial de tout son État est un devoir si évident que je m'engage sans hésitation à l'observer, non toutefois sans quelque mortification que quiconque puisse me soupçonner d'une inclination contraire. J'ai représenté pendant huit ans le comté de Sangamon à la législature et, bien que, dans un conflit d'intérêts entre celui-ci et d'autres comtés, il eût peut-être été de mon devoir de rester fidèle au vieux Sangamon, je ne me souviens pourtant pas que les membres du Nord aient jamais sollicité mon vote en faveur de l'un quelconque de leurs intérêts sans l'obtenir. Mon souvenir précis est que les membres du Nord et ceux de Sangamon ont toujours été en bons termes et ont toujours coopéré sur les mesures d'intérêt public. Le projet du canal était alors la grande mesure du Nord et, du début à la fin, il obtint nos voix aussi aisément que celles du Nord lui-même. En vérité, je serais surpris que l'on puisse signaler un seul cas où le Nord ait sollicité notre aide sans l'obtenir.\n\nDe plus, j'ai siégé un mandat au Congrès, celui durant lequel M. Turner était le membre en titre et où vous représentiez alors votre district auprès des couloirs. Or, je pense pouvoir en appeler à M. Turner et à vous-même pour savoir si vous n'avez pas toujours obtenu mes modestes services sur simple demande. En cas de conflit, j'aurais pu sans reproche préférer mon propre district. Comme sénateur, je ne revendiquerais aucun droit, pas plus que je ne ressentirais d'inclination, à accorder à la partie centrale de l'État quelque préférence sur le Nord ou sur toute autre partie de celui-ci.\n\nTrès sincèrement, votre ami,\n\nA. Lincoln",
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