Abraham Lincoln political writings and speeches
Abraham Lincoln occupies a unique place in the American pantheon. Symbol, sage, myth and martyr, he is an American icon - Honest Abe and The Great Emancipator, a Janus-faced demigod sculpted in marble. But this is the post-assassination Lincoln. During his lifetime Lincoln elicited very different re...
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2013.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Political Writings and Speeches
- 1. Autobiographical sketch (c. June 1860)
- 2. "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions": Address to the Springfield Young Men's Lyceum (January 27, 1838)
- 3. Limits of Presidential Power: To William H. Herndon (February 15, 1848)
- 4. Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act (October 16, 1854)
- 5. To Joshua F. Speed (August 24, 1855)
- 6. Speech on the Dred Scott Decision (June 26, 1857)
- 7. "A House Divided" Speech: Acceptance Speech for the Republican Senatorial Nomination (June 16, 1858)
- 8. Portion of a Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois (September 11, 1858)
- 9. Seventh Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Lincoln's Reply (October 15, 1858)
- 10. On Thomas Jefferson: To Henry L. Pierce and Others (April 6, 1859)
- 11. Cooper Union Address (February 27, 1860)
- 12. Speech at Indianapolis, Indiana (February 11, 1861)
- 13. Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia (February 22, 1861)
- 14. First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861)
- 15. Message to Congress in Special Session (July 4, 1861)
- 16. Appeal to Border-State Representatives for Compensated Emancipation (July 12, 1862)
- 17. Address on Colonization to a Committee of Colored Men (August 14, 1862)
- 18. To Horace Greeley (August 22, 1862)
- 19. Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (September 22, 1862)
- 20. Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus (September 24, 1862)
- 21. Second Annual Message to Congress (December 1, 1862)
- 22. Final Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)
- 23. To General John A. McClernand (January 8, 1863)
- 24. To Erastus Corning and Others (June 12, 1863)
- 25. To Matthew Birchard and Others: Reply to the Ohio Democratic Convention (June 29, 1863)
- 26. To James C. Conkling (August 26, 1863)
- 27. Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
- 28. Third Annual Message to Congress (December 8, 1863)
- 29. Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (December 8, 1863)
- 30. Reply to the New York Working-men's Democratic Republican Association (March 21, 1864)
- 31. To Albert G. Hodges (April 4, 1864)
- 32. To Charles D. Robinson (August 17, 1864)
- 33. Reply to a Southern Woman (December 6, 1864)
- 34. "With Malice toward None": Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1865)
- 35. Speech on Reconstruction (Lincoln's last speech) (April 11, 1865)
- II. Notes and Fragments
- 36. On Government (1854?)
- 37. On Slavery (1854?)
- 38. On Slavery and Democracy (1858?)
- 39. On Pro-slavery Theology (1858?)
- 40. On the Struggle against Slavery (c. July 1858)
- 41. On Racial (In)equality 1: First Lincoln-Douglas Debate (August 21, 1858)
- 42. On Racial (In)equality 2: Fourth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (September 18, 1858)
- 43. Declaration of Independence includes all men: Fifth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (October 7, 1858)
- 44. On Slavery, Property, and the Constitution: Fifth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (October 7, 1858)
- 45. On Labor and Capital 1 (1846 or 1847)
- 46. On Labor and Capital 2: Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (September 30, 1859)
- 47. On Labor and Capital 3: Speech at New Haven, Connecticut (March 6, 1860)
- 48. On Liberty: Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland (April 18, 1864)
- 49. On the Thirteenth Amendment (abolition of slavery): Fourth Annual Message to Congress (December 6, 1864).
