Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln 1832 to 1865 by Abraham Lincoln (Illustrated)

Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln gives us an inside look at the man and the president.

From the introduction:
"No man since Washington has become to Americans so familiar or so beloved a figure as Abraham Lincoln. He is to them the representative and typical American, the man who best embodies the political ideals of the nation. He is typical in the fact that he sprang from the masses of the people, that he remained through his whole career a man of the people, that his chief desire was to be in accord with the beliefs and wishes of the people, that he never failed to trust in the people and to rely on their support. Every native American knows his life and his speeches. His anecdotes and witticisms have passed into the thought and the conversation of the whole nation as those of no other statesman have done.
He belongs, however, not only to the United States, but to the whole of civilized mankind."

Contents include:
CONTENTS
Lincoln's First Public Speech—From an Address to the People of Sangamon County, March 9, 1832
Letter to Col. Robert Allen, June 21, 1836
From a Letter Published in the Sangamon "Journal," June 13, 1836
From his Address before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Jan. 27, 1837
Letter to Mrs. O.H. Browning, Springfield, April 1, 1838
From a Political Debate, Springfield, Dec, 1839
Letter to W.G. Anderson, Lawrenceville, Ill., Oct. 31, 1840
Extract from a Letter to John T. Stuart, Springfield, Ill., Jan. 23, 1841
From his Address before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society, Feb. 22, 1842
From a Circular of the Whig Committee, March 4, 1843
From a Letter to Martin M. Morris, Springfield, Ill., March 26, 1843
From a Letter to Joshua F. Speed, Springfield, Ill., Oct. 22, 1846
From a Letter to Wm. H. Herndon, Washington, Jan. 8, 1848
From a Letter to Wm. H. Herndon, Washington, June 22, 1848
Note for Law Lecture—Written about July 1, 1850
A Fragment—Written about July 1, 1854
A Fragment on Slavery, July 1854
From his Reply to Senator Douglas, Peoria, Oct. 16, 1854
From a Letter to the Hon. Geo. Robertson, Lexington, Ky.; Springfield, Ill., Aug. 15, 1855
From a Letter to Joshua F. Speed, Aug. 24, 1855
Lincoln's "Lost Speech," May 19, 1856
Speech on the Dred Scott Case, Springfield, Ill., June 26, 1857
The "Divided House" Speech, Springfield, Ill., June 17, 1858
From his Speech at Chicago in Reply to the Speech of Judge Douglas, July 10, 1858
From a Speech at Springfield, Ill., July 17, 1858
From Lincoln's Reply to Douglas in the First Joint Debate, Ottawa, Ill., Aug. 21, 1858
From Lincoln's Rejoinder to Judge Douglas at Freeport, Ill., Aug. 27, 1858
From Lincoln's Reply to Douglas at Jonesboro', Sept. 15, 1858
From Lincoln's Reply to Douglas at Charleston, Ill., Sept. 18, 1858
From Lincoln's Reply to Judge Douglas at Galesburg, Ill., Oct. 7, 1858
Notes for Speeches—Written about Oct. 1, 1858
From Lincoln's Reply to Douglas in the Seventh and Last Joint Debate, at Alton, Ill., Oct. 15, 1858
From Speech at Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1859
From Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1859
From a Letter to J.W. Fell, Dec. 20, 1859
From the Address at Cooper Institute, N.Y., Feb. 27, 1860
Lincoln's Farewell to the Citizens of Springfield, Ill., Feb. 11, 1861
Letter to Hon. Geo. Ashmun, Accepting the Nomination for Presidency, May 23, 1860
Letter to Miss Grace Bedell, Springfield, Ill., Oct. 19, 1860
From his Address to the Legislature at Indianapolis, Feb. 12, 1861
From his Address to the Legislature at Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 13, 1861
From his Remarks at Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 15, 1861
From his Address at Trenton, N.J., Feb. 21, 1861
Address in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Feb. 22, 1861
His Reply to the Mayor of Washington, D.C., Feb. 27, 1861
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
Address at Utica, N.Y., Feb. 18, 1861

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