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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... issues, especially the slavery question, that would threaten the peace. The circumstances promoted legalism at the expense of deliberation and fostered irresponsible hopes for technological and territorial solutions to deeply human and ...
... issues with which he is now identified? Why, after a long period of quiescence, did he seem to 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 ...
... issues , especially the slavery question , that would threaten the peace . The circumstances promoted legalism at the expense of deliberation and fostered irresponsible hopes for technological and territorial solutions to deeply human ...
... issue ' too grave . ' ' I do not seek applause , ' said he , ' nor to amuse the people , I want to convince them . ' " In a similar vein , his law partner William Herndon noted a pattern of simplicity in Lincoln's bearing which , on the ...
... issues with which he is now identified ? Why , after a long period of quiescence , did he seem to force the slavery issue beginning in 1854 ? Why did he deliver the " House Divided " Speech in June 1858 , using lines he had written but ...
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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 |