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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... liberty to shift my ground — that is out of the question , " his letter continued ( 4.140 ) . His silence spoke beyond itself in another way , by highlighting his advice to make the newspapers ' voluminous record available to the public ...
... liberty of thought and action . The promising conditions for American literature — including oratorythat Tocqueville observed in the 1830s were strangely limited , he thought , by democratic habits and enthusiasms that undermined the ...
... liberty in a land animated by the principle of equality , thirsted for forms of learning that would enlarge their minds and turn their circumstances to advantage . Their enlarged faith in human perfectibility , he maintained , threw ...
... liberty , by improved systems of national intercourse , by a newly awakened and an unconquerable spirit of free inquiry , and by a diffusion of knowledge through the community , such as has been before altogether unknown and unheard of ...
... liberty and human happiness . Auspicious omens cheer us . Great examples are before us . Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path . WASHINGTON is in the clear , upper sky . 29 We cannot adequately appreciate what Webster is ...
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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 |