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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... sense, the situation rewarded silence and oratorical vacuity. It fostered a congressional gag rule, while encouraging a habit of issuing implicit threats. Jackson's Farewell Address and Martin Van Buren's First Inaugural both warned ...
... sense , the situation rewarded silence and oratorical vacuity . It fostered a congressional gag rule , while encouraging a habit of issuing implicit threats . Jackson's Farewell Address and Martin Van Buren's First Inaugural both warned ...
... was assumed to be edification , which engaged the moral sense and the passions of the mind . The passions most worth cultivating were those capable of being " excited by any great subject of commanding 4 . LINCOLN'S SPEECHES RECONSIDERED •
... sense of the magnitude of the urgency " of the views it came to hold.4 These intriguing recommendations tell us something about the complexity of antebellum conceptions of oratorical persuasion . For the Review writer , the passions are ...
... sense an instrument of art . It was a form of indirection that focused attention , in the end , on what he did not concede . It should not shock us to recognize that it made him enemies as well as friends . Yet it was also a strategy ...
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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 |