Lincoln's Speeches ReconsideredJHU Press, 03.03.2020 - 386 Seiten 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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... citizens in the growing republic—had to cope with newly emerging ideas of democratic citizenship, increasingly contentious debates over slavery, and the resultant sectional differences that seemed to be mollified (and yet were ...
... citizens in the growing republic — had to cope with newly emerging ideas of democratic citizenship , increasingly contentious debates over slavery , and the resultant sectional differences that seemed to be mollified ( and yet were ...
... citizens , Americans were extraordinarily impatient and yet credulous . The speaker who attempted to bring something new to the political stage or to consider the principles under which the country was governed was subject to skepticism ...
... citizen's isolated facility for distinguishing between general ideas tended to weaken . The energetic curiosity that served democratic citizens ' practical advantage reduced what " little time remain [ ed ] to them for thinking ...
... citizens was increasingly in danger of giving way to " ready - made opinions . " Tocqueville concluded : " I see very clearly two tendencies in equality : one brings the mind of each man toward new thoughts , and the other would ...
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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 |