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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... force.”16 Speed detected a method in this alternation of concession and resolute insistence. In his friend's courtroom arguments, he saw an intriguing pattern of retreat, delay, and assertion: “He always resolved every question into its ...
... force the slavery issue beginning in 1854? Why did he deliver the “House Divided” Speech in June 1858, using lines he had written but not delivered two years before? After losing the senatorial election to Douglas in 1858, why did he ...
... forces or a tool of personal ambition.1 The very magnitude of Lincoln's presidential legacy tends to dull the desire to read the prepresidential works . Forrest McDonald has observed a similar phenomenon in the modern reception of the ...
... force , " a power that was not indifferent to " the modesty of nature [ and ] ... strict philosophical accuracy , " and yet of sufficient magnitude to " open the floodgates of the sensibility within us , and thus to bring into exercise ...
... force to his arguments : If Mr Lincoln studied any one thing more than another and for effect it was to make himself understood by all classes [ . ] He had great natural clearness and simplicity of statement and this faculty he ...
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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 |