Lincoln's Speeches ReconsideredJohns Hopkins University Press, 16.06.2005 - 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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... constitution was the organic law . Was it possible to lose the nation , and yet preserve the constitution ? ( 7.281 ) To honor his oath he must attend to the Union , and so save the body that the Constitution organizes and animates ...
... Constitution and could be demonstrated to exist in the undeniable mathematics of the Founders ' votes . There were thus at least two kinds of necessity . One , the constitutional protection of slavery , " drove [ the Founders ] so far ...
... Constitution's role with regard to slavery rigorously sepa- rated its authority from the moral issue : " The Constitution neither verified , nor does it continue , slavery . Slavery existed independent of the Constitution , and ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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