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Selected speeches and writings, Abraham Lincoln ; with an introduction by Gore Vidal

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Selected speeches and writings

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Abraham Lincoln ; with an introduction by Gore Vidal

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Records Lincoln's campaigns for public office, the evolution of his stand against slavery, his debates with Stephen Douglas, and the great addresses of his presidency

Introduction / Gore Vidal -- To the people of Sangamo County, March 9, 1832 -- To the editor of the Sangamo Journal, June 13, 1836 -- To Mary S. Owens, December 13, 1836 -- Protest in the Illinois Legislature on slavery, March 3, 1837 -- To Mary S. Owens, May 7, 1837 -- To Mary S. Owens, August 16, 1837 -- Address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838 -- To Mrs. Orville H. Browning, April 1, 1838 -- To William S. Wait, March 2, 1839 -- To Andrew McCormick, c. December 1840-January 1841 -- To John T. Stuart, January 20, 1841 -- To John T. Stuart, January 23, 1841 -- To Mary Speed, September 27, 1841 -- To Joshua F. Speed, c. early January 1842 -- To Joshua F. Speed, February 13, 8142 -- Address to the Washington Temperance Society of Springfield, Illinois, February 22, 1842 -- To Joshua F. Speed, February 23, 1842 -- To Joshua F. Speed, February 25, 1842 -- To Joshua F. Speed, March 27, 1842 -- To Joshua F. Speed, July 4, 1842 -- To Williamson Durley, October 3, 1845 -- To Henry E. Dummer, November 18,1845 -- To Robert Boal, January 7, 1846 -- To Andrew Johnston, April 18, 1846 -- Handbill replying to charges of infidelity, July 31, 1846 -- To Andrew Johnston, September 6, 1846 -- "Spot" resolutions in the U.S. House of Representatives, December 22, 1847 -- From speech in the U.S. House of Representatives on the war with Mexico, January 12, 1848 -- To William H. Herndon, February 1, 1848 -- To William H. Herndon, February 15, 1848 -- To Mary Todd Lincoln, April 16, 1848 -- To Archibald Williams, April 39, 1848 -- To Mary Todd Lincoln, June 12, 1848 -- To William H. Herndon, June 22, 1848 -- To Horace Greeley, June 27, 1848 -- To William H. Herndon, July 10, 1848 -- To William H. Herndon, July 11, 1848 -- Fragment on Niagara Falls, late September 1848? -- To Thomas Lincoln and John D. Johnston, December 24, 1848 -- To William B. Preston, May 16, 1849 -- To Elisha Embree, May 25, 1849 -- Notes on the practice of law, 1850? -- To John D. Johnston, January 12, 1851 -- To John D. Johnston, November 25, 1851 -- From eulogy on Henry Clay at Springfield, Illinois, July 6, 1852 -- To Thompson R. Webber, September 12, 1853 -- To Mason Brayman, October 3, 1853 -- Fragment on government, 1854? -- From speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854 -- To William H. Henderson, February 21, 1855 -- To Owen Lovejoy, August 11, 1855 -- To George Robertson, August 15, 1855 -- To Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855 -- To Lyman Trumbull, June 7, 1856 -- To Lyman Trumbull, August 11, 1856 -- Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan, August 27, 1856 -- On Stephen Douglas, c. December 1856 -- Speech at Republican banquet in Chicago, Illinois, December 10, 1856 -- From speech on the Dred Scott decision at Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857 -- Draft of a speech, c. late December 1857 -- To Ozias M. Hatch, March 24, 1858 -- To Charles L. Wilson, June 1, 1858 -- "House divided" speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858 -- From speech at Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1858 -- To Henry Asbury, July 31, 1858 -- From first Lincoln-Douglas debate, Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858 -- From second Lincoln-Douglas debate, Freeport, Illinois, August 27, 1858 -- Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois, September 11, 1858 -- From third Lincoln-Douglas debate, Jonesboro, Illinois, September 15, 1858 -- From fourth Lincoln-Douglas debate, Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858 -- On pro-slavery theology, 1858? -- From fifth Lincoln-Douglas debate, Galesburg, Illinois, October 7, 1858 -- From sixth Lincoln-Douglas debate, Quincy, Illinois, October 13, 1858 -- From seventh Lincoln-Douglas debate, Alton, Illinois, October 15, 1858 -- To Norman B. Judd, October 20, 1858 -- Last speech in campaign of 1858, Springfield, Illinois, October 30, 1858 -- To Charles H. Ray, November 20, 1858 -- Lecture on discoveries and inventions, Jacksonville, Illinois, February 11, 1859 -- Speech at Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 1859 -- To Henry L. Pierce and others, April 6, 1859 -- To Theodore Canisius, May 17, 1859 -- To Salmon P. Chase, June 20, 1859 -- To Samuel Galloway, July 28, 1859 -- From speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 1859 -- From speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 17, 1859 -- From address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859 -- To Jesse W. Fell, enclosing autobiography, December 20, 1859 -- From address at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860 -- To Mary Todd Lincoln, March 4, 1860 -- From speech at New Haven, Connecticut, March 6, 1860 -- To Samuel Galloway, March 24, 1860 -- To Lyman Trumbull, April 29, 1860 -- To George Ashmun, May 23, 1860 -- Autobiography written for campaign, c. June 1860 -- To Grace Bedell, October 19, 1860 -- To George T.M. Davis, October 27, 1860 -- To William Kellogg, December 11, 1860 -- To John A. Gilmer, December 15, 1860 -- To Thurlow Weed, December 17, 1860 -- To Alexander H. Stephens, December 22, 1860 -- To James T. Hale, January 11, 1861 -- Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, February 11, 1861 -- Speech to Germans at Cincinnati, Ohio, February 12, 1861 -- Address to the New Jersey Senate at Trenton, New Jersey, February 21, 1861 -- Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1861 -- First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 -- To William H. Seward, April 1, 1861 -- To Robert Anderson, April 4, 1861 -- To Robert S. Chew, April 6, 1861 -- Proclamation calling militia and convening Congress, April 15, 1861 -- To Reverdy Johnson, April 24, 1861 -- To Winfield Scott, April 25, 1861 -- To Winfield Scott, April 27, 1861 -- Message to Congress in special session, July 4, 1861 -- To John C. Frémont, September 2, 1861 -- To John C. Frémont, September 11, 1861 -- From annual message to Congress, December 3, 1861 -- To Don C. Buell, January 6, 1862 -- Message to Congress, March 6, 1862 -- To Henry J. Raymond, March 9, 1862 -- Speech to a Massachusetts delegation, Washington, D.C., March 13, 1862 -- To George B. McClellan, April 9, 1862 -- To George B. McClellan, June 28, 1862 -- Appeal to border-state representatives for compensated emancipation, Washington, D.C., July 12, 1862 -- Address on colonization to a committee of colored men, Washington, D.C., August 14, 1862 -- To Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862 -- Meditation on the divine will, c. early September 1862 -- Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862 -- Proclamation suspending the writ of habeas corpus, September 24, 1862 -- To Hannibal Hamlin, September 28, 1862 -- To George B. McClellan, October 13, 1862 -- To John Pope, November 10, 1862 -- To George F. Shepley, November 21, 1862 -- To Nathaniel P. Banks, November 22, 1862 -- To Carl Schurz, November 24, 1862 -- From Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862 -- Message to Senate on Minnesota Indians, December 11, 1862 -- To Fanny McCullough, December 23, 1862 -- Final Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863 -- To John A. McClernand, January 8, 1863 -- To Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863 -- To John M. Schofield, May 27, 1863 -- To Erastus Corning and others, June 12, 1863 -- To Joseph Hooker, June 16, 1863 -- To George G. Meade, July 14, 1863 -- To Oliver O. Howard, July 21, 1863 -- To Montgomery Blair, July 24, 1863 -- Order of Retaliation, July 30, 1863 -- To Stephen A. Hurlbut, July 31, 1863 -- To Nathaniel P. Banks, August 5, 1863 -- To James H. Hackett, August 17, 1863 -- To James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863 -- To Salmon P. Chase, September 2, 1863 -- To Andrew Johnson, September 11, 1863 -- Opinion on the draft, c. mid-September 1863 -- To Henry W. Halleck, September 19, 1863 -- To James M. Cutts, October 26, 1863 -- To James H. Hackett, November 2, 1863 -- To Nathaniel PBanks, November 5, 1863 -- Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863 -- From Annual Message to Congress, December 8, 1863 -- Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, December 8, 1863 -- To Thomas Cottman, December 15, 1863 -- To Oliver D. Filley, December 22, 1863 -- To Edwin M. Stanton, February 5, 1864 -- To Salmon P. Chase, February 29, 1864 -- To Edwin M. Stanton, March 1, 1864 -- To John A.J. Creswell, March 7, 1864 -- To Michael Hahn, March 13, 1864 -- To Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864 -- Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland, April 18, 1864 -- To Charles Sumner, May 19, 1864 -- To John H. Bryant, May 30, 1864 -- Reply to Committee of the National Union Convention, Washington, D.C., June 9, 1864 -- Reply to delegation from the National Union League, Washington, D.C., June 9, 1864 -- To Salmon P. Chase, June 30, 1864 -- Proclamation concerning reconstruction, July 8, 1864 -- To John McMahon, August 6, 1864 -- To Charles D. Robinson, August 17, 1864 -- Speech to the 166th Ohio Regiment, August 22, 1864 -- Memorandum of Probable Failure of Re-election, August 23, 1864 -- To Eliza P. Gurney, September 4, 1864 -- To William T. Sherman, September 19, 1864 -- Response to Serenade, Washington, D.C., October 19, 1864 -- Response to Serenade, Washington, D.C., November 10, 1864 -- To Stephen A. Hurlbut, November 14, 1864 -- To Mrs. Lydia Bixby, November 21, 1864 -- From Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1864 -- To William T. Sherman, December 26, 1864 -- To Ulysses S. Grant, January 19, 1865 -- Response to Serenade, Washington, D.C., February 1, 1865 -- To John Glenn, February 7, 1865 -- Reply to Notification Committee, Washington, D.C., March 1, 1865 -- To Ulysses S. Grant, March 3, 1865 -- Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 -- To Thurlow Weed, March 15, 1865 -- Speech to the 140th Indiana Regiment, Washington, D.C., March 17, 1865 -- Response to Serenade, Washington, D.C., April 10, 1865 -- Speech to Reconstruction, Washington, D.C., April 11, 1865 -- Chronology -- Note on the texts -- Notes -- Index

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