Lincoln's Speeches ReconsideredJHU Press, 2020 M03 3 - 386 páginas Originally published in 2005. Throughout the fractious years of the mid-nineteenth century, Abraham Lincoln's speeches imparted reason and guidance to a troubled nation. Lincoln's words were never universally praised. But they resonated with fellow legislators and the public, especially when he spoke on such volatile subjects as mob rule, temperance, the Mexican War, slavery and its expansion, and the justice of a war for freedom and union. In this close examination, John Channing Briggs reveals how the process of studying, writing, and delivering speeches helped Lincoln develop the ideas with which he would so profoundly change history. Briggs follows Lincoln's thought process through a careful chronological reading of his oratory, ranging from Lincoln's 1838 speech to the Springfield Lyceum to his second inaugural address. Recalling David Herbert Donald's celebrated revisionist essays (Lincoln Reconsidered, 1947), Briggs's study provides students of Lincoln with new insight into his words, intentions, and image. |
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... associated with the antebellum period and the Civil War . In his own way Lincoln aspired to a kind of eloquence that his circumstances called for and lacked . He contributed to an oratorical The Mind of the Persuader 3 ·
... Civil War . In an essay published in 1854 , after the deaths of Webster , Calhoun , and Clay , and before Lincoln had achieved a national reputation , an anonymous author in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review lamented the ...
... civil war : If the Union is once severed , the line of separation will grow wider and wider , and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by ...
... civil and religious liberty , than any of which the history of former times tells us " ( 1.108 ) . Yet , he argues , that legacy is peculiarly vulnerable , in need of perpetual vigilance . The first sentences of the speech invoke the ...
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The Temperance Address | 58 |
The Speech on the War with Mexico | 82 |
The Eulogy for Henry Clay | 113 |
The KansasNebraska Speech | 134 |
The House Divided Speech | 164 |
The Milwaukee Address | 195 |
Thorough Farming and SelfGovernment | 221 |
The Cooper Union Address | 237 |
Presidential Eloquence and Political Religion | 257 |
The Farewell Address | 281 |
The First Inaugural the Gettysburg Address | 297 |
POSTSCRIPT The Letter to Mrs Bixby | 328 |
Index | 363 |