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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... necessity. Of course, it is almost impossible to comment upon Lincoln's speeches without becoming involved in long-standing controversies over their silences, swerves, and declarations (especially those that concern slavery), the ...
... necessity : the question of whether certain concessions had to be made because there seemed to be no alternative , or whether he needed to resist in order to honor a deeper necessity . Of course , it is almost impossible to comment upon ...
... necessity , as Clay had put it , ' to rescue the Government and public liberty from the impending dangers , which Jacksonism has created . " The Whigs defined themselves in terms that their British forebears would have recognized : they ...
... necessity of strengthening fraternal feelings to resist such threats ; indeed , his Inaugural Address sought to build them up by focusing their resistance on antislavery dissent . But this approach appealed to no principle but the necessity ...
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Inhalt
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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 |