Lincoln’s Speech Historical Marker

As such a small state with only a few votes in the Electoral College compared to the other members of the Union, even back in the mid-1800’s, Delaware didn’t get much respect. Abraham Lincoln came to the First State only once when he was a Congressman but never returned when he was the President? Not even once?
Also, you’d think that this would be near Lincoln Square. It isn’t. The marker is on the side of a building and reads:
«On June 10, 1848, Congressman Abraham Lincoln traveled to Wilmington, Delaware, for the purpose of addressing a meeting of members of the Whig political party. He was accompanied by Delaware Representative John W. Houston and two other members of Congress, who were returning to Washington from the Whig National Convention that had chosen Zachary Taylor as the party’s presidential nominee. The future President and his colleagues delivered their remarks from a balcony at the east end of the Fourth Street Market House, a complex of buildings which stood in the center of 4^th Street between Orange and Market. Introduced as the „Lone Star of Illinois,“ Mr. Lincoln was greeted with great enthusiasm by those in attendance. In a speech that was praised as „eloquent and patriotic,“ he extolled the principles of the Whig party and the virtue of its candidates. This was his only documented visit to the First State. After serving one term in Congress, he left public office to return to his law practice in Illinois. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16^th President of the United States.»