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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... human and political dilemmas. The conditions Lincoln referred to in his Lyceum Address of 1838 were the twin dangers of mob rule and political apathy. The very success of the American experiment, he believed, had begun to lure ...
... human nature and ideas such as those set out by the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence . Yet the ease with which one could lose one's grip on the principles of selfgovernment , as Lincoln noted in his Lyceum Address , was ...
... human possibility.4 The study of mathematics also played a role in Lincoln's rhetorical universe ; the logic of geometry , with its austere dedication to axioms and deductive proofs , provided him with a means of concentrating his ...
... human nature in order to treat the particular affair that occupies it . Hence in the political discussions of a democratic people , however small it is , a character of generality arises that often makes them attractive to the human ...
... human perfectibility , he maintained , threw their attention toward what expanded their minds : " When there are no longer inherited wealth , class privileges , and prerogatives of birth , and each draws his force only from himself , it ...
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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 |