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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... constitutional issues bearing on slavery . The Union " cannot be saved by eulogies on the Union , however splendid or numerous . The cry of ' Union , Union — the glorious Union ! ' can no more prevent disunion than the cry of ' Health ...
... Constitution . Holt argues that " [ o ] nly a passionate devotion to the Revolutionary experiment in republican government and a common conviction that Jackson threatened it explain how men with such diverse views on other matters ...
... constitutional order . His Inaugural made them the problematical pillars of the republic : they would always stand — as ... Constitution " as members of one political family , mutually contributing to promote the happiness of each other ...
... constitutional self - government must suppress public controversy over slavery . With almost no direct discussion of slavery , and without advocating abolition , Lincoln connects the controversy to the more general problem of ...
... constitution and the laws . " In order to do that , they must hallow the heritage of the laws that the mob's freedom ... constitutional order stands above particular laws . Legislative changes should be made " with the least possible ...
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 |