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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... freedom and American union . John Channing Briggs reveals how the process of studying , writing , and delivering speeches helped Lincoln develop the ideas that have so profoundly changed history . Briggs follows Lincoln's thought ...
... freedom that the democratic social state favors , so that the human spirit , having broken all the shackles that classes or men formerly imposed on it , would be tightly chained to the general will of the greatest number . " 22 The ...
... freedom , public peace , and social order itself will not be able to do without enlightenment . " 26 Self - interest , according to Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy , was relentlessly displacing the old " blind " and ...
... freedom . As it happens , Jackson's Farewell Address and Van Buren's Inaugural both give prominent attention to the danger of a breakdown in the rule of law , and both connect that danger to sectional disputes and agitation over slavery ...
... freedom . The victory of the injured would not secure to them the blessings of liberty ; it would avenge their wrongs , but they would themselves share in the common ruin.5 Lincoln would absorb and transform the specific terms and ...
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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 |