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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... land , and be perused by thousands of eager readers , in their shops and countingrooms , and by their firesides and in their domestic circles . " From another perspective , the vast opportunities awaiting the American orator seemed to ...
... land animated by the principle of equality , thirsted for forms of learning that would enlarge their minds and turn their circumstances to advantage . Their enlarged faith in human perfectibility , he maintained , threw their attention ...
... land , is inseparably connected , fast bound up , in fortune and by fate , with these great interests . If they fall , we fall with them ; if they stand , it will be because we have maintained them . Let us contemplate , then , this ...
... land " lately famed " ( as Tocqueville had characterized it ) " for love of law and order " by taking advantage of a breakdown in the rule of law and a desperate desire to restore security ( 1.110 ) . Lincoln must first prepare his ...
... land of steady habits " with its " order loving citizens . " No region has been spared ( 1.109 ) . The variety of places in which mobs have arisen , not necessarily the number and extent of their excesses , is his emphasis . The ...
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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 |