"Fellow Citizens of the United States"

"At noon, Lincoln was escorted by President Buchanan in an open barouche to the unfinished Capitol, where they found a throng of 30,000 gathered. The moment had arrived. Lincoln quietly reached into his pocket and put on his steel-rimmed spectacles, at which point a wag in the audience yelled, 'Look at old goggles!' and was promptly arrested."

Four writers in The New York Times assess Abraham Lincoln's first Inaugural Address, given on March 4, 1861.