Abraham Lincoln : political writings and speeches

Lincoln : political writings and speeches

Cambridge texts in the history of political thought

Cambridge texts in the history of political thought.

Political Writings and Speeches -- Autobiographical sketch (c. June 1860) -- "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions": Address to the Springfield Young Men's Lyceum (January 27, 1838) -- Limits of Presidential Power: To William H. Herndon (February 15, 1848) -- Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act (October 16, 1854) -- To Joshua F. Speed (August 24, 1855) -- Speech on the Dred Scott Decision (June 26, 1857) -- "A House Divided" Speech: Acceptance Speech for the Republican Senatorial Nomination (June 16, 1858) -- Portion of a Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois (September 11, 1858) -- Seventh Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Lincoln's Reply (October 15, 1858) -- On Thomas Jefferson: To Henry L. Pierce and Others (April 6, 1859) -- Cooper Union Address (February 27, 1860) -- Speech at Indianapolis, Indiana (February 11, 1861) -- Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia (February 22, 1861) -- First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861) -- Message to Congress in Special Session (July 4, 1861) -- Appeal to Border-State Representatives for Compensated Emancipation (July 12, 1862) -- Address on Colonization to a Committee of Colored Men (August 14, 1862) -- To Horace Greeley (August 22, 1862) -- Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (September 22, 1862) -- Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus (September 24, 1862) -- Second Annual Message to Congress (December 1, 1862) -- Final Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863) -- To General John A. McClernand (January 8, 1863) -- To Erastus Corning and Others (June 12, 1863) -- To Matthew Birchard and Others: Reply to the Ohio Democratic Convention (June 29, 1863) -- To James C. Conkling (August 26, 1863) -- Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863) -- Third Annual Message to Congress (December 8, 1863) -- Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (December 8, 1863) -- Reply to the New York Working-men's Democratic Republican Association (March 21, 1864) -- To Albert G. Hodges (April 4, 1864) -- To Charles D. Robinson (August 17, 1864) -- Reply to a Southern Woman (December 6, 1864) -- "With Malice toward None": Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1865) -- Speech on Reconstruction (Lincoln's last speech) (April 11, 1865) -- Notes and Fragments -- On Government (1854?) -- On Slavery (1854?) -- On Slavery and Democracy (1858?) -- On Pro-slavery Theology (1858?) -- On the Struggle against Slavery (c. July 1858) -- On Racial (In)equality 1: First Lincoln-Douglas Debate (August 21, 1858) -- On Racial (In)equality 2: Fourth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (September 18, 1858) -- Declaration of Independence includes all men: Fifth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (October 7, 1858) -- On Slavery, Property, and the Constitution: Fifth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (October 7, 1858) -- On Labor and Capital 1 (1846 or 1847) -- On Labor and Capital 2: Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (September 30, 1859) -- On Labor and Capital 3: Speech at New Haven, Connecticut (March 6, 1860) -- On Liberty: Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland (April 18, 1864) -- On the Thirteenth Amendment (abolition of slavery): Fourth Annual Message to Congress (December 6, 1864).

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The development of principles, 1832-1854 -- "I am young and unknown" : Appeal to the voters of Sangamo County, 1832 -- "I shall consider the whole people" : Letter to the Sangamo Journal, 1836 -- "The perpetuation of our political institutions" : Address before the Springfield Young Men's Lyceum, 1838 -- "When there shall be neither a slave nor a drunkard" : Address before the Springfield Temperance Society, 1842 -- "The guarantee of the rights of conscience" : Resolutions on anti-Catholic riots, 1844 -- "By the fruit the tree is to be known" : Letter on the Liberty Party and Texas, 1845 -- "The truth of the Scriptures" : Reply to charges of irreligion, 1846 -- "No one man should hold the power" : Letter on the President's war-making power, 1848 -- "The right ... to revolutionize" : Resolutions on Hungarian independence, 1852 -- "The white-man's charter of freedom" : Eulogy on Henry Clay, 1852 -- The challenge of slavery, 1854-1861 -- "This question of slavery extension" : Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 -- "Others say ... I am an abolitionist" : Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 1855 -- "The Declaration of Independence includes all men" : Speech on the Dred Scott decision, 1857 -- "A house divided against itself" : Speech accepting the Republican Senatorial nomination, 1858 -- "Difference between the white and black races" : Debates with Douglas, 1858 -- "To immancipate the mind" : Lecture on discoveries and inventions, 1859 -- "The man before the dollar" : Letter on Thomas Jefferson, 1859 -- "Labor is the superior ... of capital" : Address at the Wisconsin State Fair, 1859 -- "The old policy of the fathers" : Address at the Cooper Union, 1860 -- The challenge of disunion, 1861-1863 -- "What, then, is 'coercion'?" : Speech in Indianapolis, 1861 -- "The momentous issue of Civil War" : First Inaugural Address, 1861 -- "'Secession' or 'rebellion'" : Message to special session of Congress, 1861 -- "I cannot assume this reckless position" : Letter on Frémont's emancipation order, 1861 -- "To emancipate gradually" : Appeal to border-state Congressmen, 1862 -- "We may not touch property" : Veto message: Second Confiscation Act, 1862 -- "Would you drop the war where it is?" : Letter on Louisiana affairs, 1862 -- "The ban is still upon you" : Remarks to a committee of colored men, 1862 -- "My paramount object" : Reply to Horace Greeley, 1862 -- "The root of the rebellion" : Reply to Christians of Chicago, 1862 -- "We cannot escape history" : Second annual message to Congress, 1862 -- "A measure made expedient by a war" : Opinion on the admission of West Virginia, 1862 -- "Slaves ... shall be free" : Final proclamation of Emancipation, 1863 -- The challenge of peace and reconstruction, 1863-1865 -- "Broken eggs can not be mended" : Letter on peace terms, 1863 -- "The scope of moral results" : Response to English workingmen, 1863 -- "Ours is a case of rebellion" : Letter to New York Democrats, 1863 -- "The public safety" : Letter to Ohio Democrats, 1863 -- "The signs look better" : Letter to James C. Conkling, 1863 -- "Wherein is the peculiar hardship now?" : Statement on the draft, 1863 -- "Education for young Blacks" : Two letters to Nathaniel P. Banks, 1863 -- "It is for us the living" : Gettysburg Address, 1863 -- "To build only from the sound" : Third annual message to Congress, 1863 -- "The jewel of liberty" : Note to Michael Hahn, 1864 -- "The rights of all working people" : Reply to New York workingmen, 1864 -- "I am naturally anti-slavery" : Remarks on the use of Negroes as soldiers, 1864 -- "Peace and re-union" : Letter on war aims, 1864 -- "The election was a necessity" : Response to a serenade, 1864 -- "I retract nothing ... as to slavery" : Fourth annual message to Congress, 1864 -- "With malice toward none" : Second Inaugural Address, 1865 -- "A righteous and speedy peace" : Last public address, 1865 -- Some principles briefly stated : Excerpts and fragments, 1837-1864.