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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... slavery and intemperance . But such a comparison hovers over his ar- gument because his remarks on traditional views of alcohol so readily con- vert into an implicit reference to slavery's three - hundred - year history in the New World ...
... slavery , I would consent to the extension of it rather than see the Union dissolved , just as I would con- sent to any great evil , to avoid a greater one . But when I go to Union saving , I must believe , at least , that the means I ...
... slavery did not for him efface the Founders ' ex- pectation , which was embedded in the Declaration and the Northwest Ordi- nance , that slavery would become extinct . In the Cooper Union Address he strove to show that that expectation ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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