Abraham Lincoln. Speeches & Writings 1832-1858 (Library of America #45)

1119 Pages·1989·4.66 MB·English

by  Abraham Lincoln

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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BRAHAM INCOLN
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SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
1832–1858
Speeches, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
DON E. FEHRENBACHER, EDITOR
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN SUPPLEMENT 1832–1865, copyright © 1974 by Roy P. Basler. Reprinted by
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 89–2362
ISBN 0-940450-43-7 / The Library of America—45
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Contents
*Denotes verbatim newspaper accounts of speeches, reprinted here in full, that
are known to be incomplete.
To the People of Sangamo County, March 9, 1832
To the Editor of the Sangamo Journal, June 13, 1836
To Robert Allen, June 21, 1836
To Mary S. Owens, December 13, 1836
Speech in the Illinois Legislature on the State Bank, January 11, 1837
Protest in the Illinois Legislature on Slavery, March 3, 1837
To Mary S. Owens, May 7, 1837
To Mary S. Owens, August 16, 1837
Second Reply to James Adams, October 18, 1837
Address to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838
To Mrs. Orville H. Browning, April 1, 1838
To William Butler, January 26, 1839
To William Butler, February 1, 1839
To William S. Wait, March 2, 1839
Speech on the Sub-Treasury at Springfield, Illinois, December 26, 1839
Plan of Campaign in 1840, c. January 1840
To John T. Stuart, January 20, 1840
To Andrew McCormick, c. December 1840–January 1841
To John T. Stuart, January 20, 1841
To John T. Stuart, January 23, 1841
To Joshua F. Speed, June 19, 1841
To Mary Speed, September 27, 1841
To Joshua F. Speed, c. early January 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, February 3, 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, February 13, 1842
Address to the Washington Temperance Society of Springfield, Illinois, February
22, 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, February 25, 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, February 25, 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, March 27, 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, July 4, 1842
The “Rebecca” Letter, August 27, 1842
To James Shields, September 17, 1842
Duel Instructions to Elias H. Merryman, September 19, 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, October 5, 1842
To James S. Irwin, November 2, 1842
To Samuel D. Marshall, November 11, 1842
To Richard S. Thomas, February 14, 1843
To Joshua F. Speed, March 24, 1843
To Martin S. Morris, March 26, 1843
To Martin S. Morris, April 14, 1843
To Joshua F. Speed, May 18, 1843
To Williamson Durley, October 3, 1845
To Benjamin F. James, November 17, 1845
To Henry E. Dummer, November 18, 1845
To Benjamin F. James, November 24, 1845
To Benjamin F. James, December 6, 1845
To Robert Boal, January 7, 1846
To Benjamin F. James, January 16, 1846
To John J. Hardin, January 19, 1846
“My Childhood-Home I See Again,” c. February 1846
To John J. Hardin, February 7, 1846
To Benjamin F. James, February 9, 1846
To Andrew Johnston, February 24, 1846
Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder, April 15, 1846
To Andrew Johnston, April 18, 1846
Handbill Replying to Charges of Infidelity, July 31, 1846
To Allen N. Ford, August 11, 1846
To Andrew Johnston, September 6, 1846
To Joshua F. Speed, October 22, 1846
To Andrew Johnston, February 25, 1847
“The Bear Hunt,” before February 25, 1847
Fragments on the Tariff, c. August 1846–December 1847
“Spot” Resolutions in the U.S. House of Representatives, December 22, 1847
To William H. Herndon, January 8, 1848
Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives on the War with Mexico, January
12, 1848
To Jonathan R. Diller, January 19, 1848
To William H. Herndon, February 1, 1848
To William H. Herndon, February 2, 1848
To Josephus Hewett, February 13, 1848
To William H. Herndon, February 15, 1848
To Thomas S. Flournoy, February 17, 1848
To Usher F. Linder, February 20, 1848
To Solomon Lincoln, March 6, 1848
To Usher F. Linder, March 22, 1848
To David Lincoln, April 2, 1848
To Mary Todd Lincoln, April 16, 1848
To Archibald Williams, April 30, 1848
To John M. Peck, May 21, 1848
To William H. Herndon, June 12, 1848
To Mary Todd Lincoln, June 12, 1848
Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives on Internal Improvements, June
20,1848
To William H. Herndon, June 22, 1848
To Horace Greeley, June 27, 1848
To Mary Todd Lincoln, July 2, 1848
To William H. Herndon, July 10, 1848
To William H. Herndon, July 11, 1848
Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives on the Presidential Question, July
27, 1848
To William Schouler, August 28, 1848
Fragment on Niagara Falls, late September 1848?
To Thomas Lincoln and John D. Johnston, December 24, 1848
To Walter Davis, January 5, 1849
To William H. Herndon, January 5, 1849
To C. U. Schlater, January 5, 1849
Proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives for Abolition of Slavery in the
District of Columbia, January 10, 1849
To David Davis, February 12, 1849
To Joshua F. Speed, February 20, 1849
To Charles R. Welles, February 20, 1849
To William B. Warren and Others, April 7, 1849
To William B. Preston, April 20, 1849
To Josiah M. Lucas, April 25, 1849
To William B. Preston, May 16, 1849
To Duff Green, May 18, 1849
To Joseph Gillespie, May 19, 1849
To Elisha Embree, May 25, 1849
To Josiah B. Herrick, June 3, 1849
To Thomas Ewing, June 22, 1849
To Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849
To Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849
To John M. Clayton, July 28, 1849
To John M. Clayton, August 21, 1849
To John M. Clayton, September 16, 1849