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Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech, May 29, 1856; A Souvenir of the Eleventh Annual Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club of the City of New York, at The Waldorf, February 12, 1897
Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech, May 29, 1856; A Souvenir of the Eleventh Annual Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club of the City of New York, at The Waldorf, February 12, 1897
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Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech, May 29, 1856; A Souvenir of the Eleventh Annual Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club of the City of New York, at The Waldorf, February 12, 1897. Published in New York, and Printed For The Committee in 1897. (60 pages)
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
...THE lost speech of Abraham Lincoln was delivered at the first Republican State Convention of Illinois, at Bloomington, on the 29th of May, 1856. The excitement caused among the audience by the speech was so great that the reporters forgot to take their notes, and for many years it was generally supposed that no record of the speech had been preserved. It appears, however, that Mr. H. C. Whitney, then a young lawyer of Illinois, did take notes of the speech, which he preserved; and after a lapse of forty years they were transcribed and were published in ''McClures Magazine'' for September, 1896, together with a letter from Mr. Joseph Medill, of the "Chicago Tribune," who was present at the Convention and confirms the accuracy of Mr. Whitney s report.
...By the kind consent of Mr. Whitney, and through the courtesy of Mr. S. S. McClure, the speech is now reproduced by the Republican Club of the City of New York as a souvenir of Lincoln for its Annual Dinner on the 12th of February, 1897.
...From Wikipedia.....Henry Clay Whitney (1831 – 1905), produced The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln in nine volumes, containing facsimiles of letters he had received from the president. He published a two-volume biography of Lincoln, Lincoln the citizen and Lincoln the President, which was published in 1892. He also published an account of his time with Lincoln in Life on the circuit with Lincoln in 1892. He published a version of "Lincoln's Lost Speech" in McClure's Magazine in 1896. The speech was made at the Illinois State Republican Convention at Bloomington, Illinois on May 29, 1856, and was said to have been Lincoln's finest. Whitney claimed his version was based on notes he had made while the speech was being delivered, but the accuracy has been questioned due to the 40-year delay before publication. Whitney has been described as "an unscrupulous reporter", willing to stretch the facts to make his point.
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...But no man, and Judge Douglas no more than any other, can maintain a negative, or merely neutral, position on this question; and, accordingly, he avows that the Union was made by white men and for white men and their descendants. As matter of fact, the first branch of the proposition is historically true; the government was made by white men, and they were and are the superior race. This I admit. But the corner-stone of the government, so to speak, was the declaration that "all men are created equal," and all entitled to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." [Applause.]
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
...THE lost speech of Abraham Lincoln was delivered at the first Republican State Convention of Illinois, at Bloomington, on the 29th of May, 1856. The excitement caused among the audience by the speech was so great that the reporters forgot to take their notes, and for many years it was generally supposed that no record of the speech had been preserved. It appears, however, that Mr. H. C. Whitney, then a young lawyer of Illinois, did take notes of the speech, which he preserved; and after a lapse of forty years they were transcribed and were published in ''McClures Magazine'' for September, 1896, together with a letter from Mr. Joseph Medill, of the "Chicago Tribune," who was present at the Convention and confirms the accuracy of Mr. Whitney s report.
...By the kind consent of Mr. Whitney, and through the courtesy of Mr. S. S. McClure, the speech is now reproduced by the Republican Club of the City of New York as a souvenir of Lincoln for its Annual Dinner on the 12th of February, 1897.
...From Wikipedia.....Henry Clay Whitney (1831 – 1905), produced The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln in nine volumes, containing facsimiles of letters he had received from the president. He published a two-volume biography of Lincoln, Lincoln the citizen and Lincoln the President, which was published in 1892. He also published an account of his time with Lincoln in Life on the circuit with Lincoln in 1892. He published a version of "Lincoln's Lost Speech" in McClure's Magazine in 1896. The speech was made at the Illinois State Republican Convention at Bloomington, Illinois on May 29, 1856, and was said to have been Lincoln's finest. Whitney claimed his version was based on notes he had made while the speech was being delivered, but the accuracy has been questioned due to the 40-year delay before publication. Whitney has been described as "an unscrupulous reporter", willing to stretch the facts to make his point.
Excerpt:
...But no man, and Judge Douglas no more than any other, can maintain a negative, or merely neutral, position on this question; and, accordingly, he avows that the Union was made by white men and for white men and their descendants. As matter of fact, the first branch of the proposition is historically true; the government was made by white men, and they were and are the superior race. This I admit. But the corner-stone of the government, so to speak, was the declaration that "all men are created equal," and all entitled to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." [Applause.]
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