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Phineas Taylor Barnum

As a Statesman

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As a Statesman
"I had never sought or desire office, though it had often been tendered to me. This was notoriously true, among all who knew me, up to the year 1865, when I accepted from the Republican party a nomination to the Connecticut legislature from the town of Fairfield, and I did this because I felt that it would be an honor to be permitted to vote for the then proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States to abolish slavery forever form the land." (2003.9.55)
Posted on August 26, 2010

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