Post by Logan on Jan 20, 2016 19:50:11 GMT -6
EXETER — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz seemed impressed when a man in the audience inside the old Exeter Town Hall told him he was speaking in the same spot where Abraham Lincoln once addressed New Hampshire Republicans during a visit to Exeter in 1860.
“Wow,” he said, looking down to admire the stage where he stood before a crowd of about 200 during a campaign stop here Wednesday morning.
The political landscape has certainly changed since Lincoln arrived in Exeter to speak and visit his son — a student at Phillips Exeter Academy — after giving an anti-slavery speech at Copper Union in New York City.
Just a few months after his Exeter speech, Lincoln accepted his party’s nomination for President.
Continued at www.unionleader.com/article/20160120/NEWS0605/160129825 .
“Wow,” he said, looking down to admire the stage where he stood before a crowd of about 200 during a campaign stop here Wednesday morning.
The political landscape has certainly changed since Lincoln arrived in Exeter to speak and visit his son — a student at Phillips Exeter Academy — after giving an anti-slavery speech at Copper Union in New York City.
Just a few months after his Exeter speech, Lincoln accepted his party’s nomination for President.
Continued at www.unionleader.com/article/20160120/NEWS0605/160129825 .