Abraham Lincoln. Speeches & Writings 1859-1865 (Library of America #46)

1195 Pages·1989·4.58 MB·English

by  Abraham Lincoln

ABRAHAM LINCOLN
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
1859–1865
Speeches, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings Presidential Messages
and Proclamations
DON E. FEHRENBACHER, EDITOR
THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA
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© 1953 by the Abraham Lincoln Association, and THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN SUPPLEMENT
1832–1865, copyright © 1974 by Roy P. Basler. Reprinted by permission of Rutgers University Press.
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Contents
To W. H. Wells, January 8, 1859
To Elihu B. Washburne, January 29, 1859
To Lyman Trumbull, February 3, 1859
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 Thomas J. Pickett, April 16, 1859
To Salmon P. Chase, April 30, 1859
To Mark W. Delahay, May 14, 1859
To Theodore Canisius, May 17, 1859
To Salmon P. Chase, June 9, 1859
To Salmon P. Chase, June 20, 1859
To Nathan Sargent, June 23, 1859
To Schuyler Colfax, July 6, 1859
To Samuel Galloway, July 28, 1859
Notes for Speeches, c. September 1859
Notes for Speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 1859
Speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 1859
Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 17, 1859
Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
September 30, 1859
To William E. Frazer, November 1, 1859
To William Kellogg, December 11, 1859
To George W. Dole, Gurdon S. Hubbard, and William H. Brown, December 14,
1859
To George M. Parsons and Others, December 19, 1859
To Samuel Galloway, December 19, 1859
To Jesse W. Fell, Enclosing Autobiography, December 20, 1859
To James W. Sheahan, January 24, 1860
To Norman B. Judd, February 9, 1860
To Oliver P. Hall, Jacob N. Fullinwider, and William F. Correll, February 14,
1860
Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860
To Mary Todd Lincoln, March 4, 1860
Speech at New Haven, Connecticut, March 6, 1860
To Mark W. Delahay, March 16, 1860
To Samuel Galloway, March 24, 1860
To Richard M. Corwine, April 6, 1860
To Cornelius F. McNeill, April 6, 1860
To Lyman Trumbull, April 29, 1860
To Richard M. Corwine, May 2, 1860
To Edward Wallace, May 12, 1860
Reply to Committee of the Republican National Convention, Springfield, Illinois,
May 19, 1860
To George Ashmun, May 23, 1860
To Charles C. Nott, May 31, 1860
Autobiography Written for Campaign, c. June 1860
To Samuel Haycraft, June 4, 1860
To Lyman Trumbull, June 5, 1860
To William M. Dickson, June 7, 1860
To J. Mason Haight, June 11, 1860
To Samuel Galloway, June 19, 1860
To Anson G. Henry, July 4, 1860
To Abraham Jonas, July 21, 1860
To George C. Latham, July 22, 1860
To Simeon Francis, August 4, 1860
Remarks at Republican Rally, Springfield, Illinois, August 8, 1860
To John B Fry, August 15, 1860
To George G. Fogg, August 16, 1860
To Charles H. Fisher, August 27, 1860
To John M. Pomeroy, August 31, 1860
To Henry Wilson, September 1, 1860
To Mrs. M. J. Green, September 22, 1860
To John T. Hanks, September 24, 1860
To John M. Brockman, September 25, 1860
To Daniel P. Gardner, September 28, 1860
Imaginary Dialogue Between Douglas and Breckinridge, September 29, 1860
To Grace Bedell, October 19, 1860
To William S. Speer, October 23, 1860
To David Hunter, October 26, 1860
To George T. M. Davis, October 27, 1860
To George D. Prentice, October 29, 1860
To Truman Smith, November 10, 1860
To Nathaniel P. Paschall, November 16, 1860
Passage Written for Lyman Trumbull’s Speech at Springfield, Illinois, November
20, 1860
Remarks at Bloomington, Illinois, November 21, 1860
To Henry J. Raymond, November 28, 1860
To William H. Seward, December 8, 1860
To Lyman Trumbull, December 8, 1860
To Lyman Trumbull, December 10, 1860
To William Kellogg, December 11, 1860
To John A. Gilmer, December 15, 1860
To Thurlow Weed, December 17, 1860
To John D. Defrees, December 18, 1860
To Henry J. Raymond, December 18, 1860
To Alexander H. Stephens, December 22, 1860
To James W. Webb, December 29, 1860
To Simon Cameron, January 3, 1861
To Lyman Trumbull, January 7, 1861
To James T. Hale, January 11, 1861
To William H. Seward, February 1, 1861
To Thurlow Weed, February 4, 1861
Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, February 11, 1861
Reply to Oliver P. Morton at Indianapolis, Indiana, February 11, 1861
Speech at Indianapolis, Indiana, February 11, 1861
Speech to Germans at Cincinnati, Ohio, February 12, 1861
Address to the Ohio Legislature, Columbus, Ohio, February 13, 1861
Speech at Cleveland, Ohio, February 15, 1861
Remarks at Syracuse, New York, February 18, 1861
Remarks at Little Falls, New York, February 18, 1861
Address to the New Jersey Senate at Trenton, New Jersey, February 21, 1861
Address to the New Jersey General Assembly at Trenton, New Jersey, February
21, 1861
Reply to Mayor Alexander Henry at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 21,
1861
Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1861
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
To Schuyler Colfax, March 8, 1861
To Winfield Scott, March 9, 1861
To William H. Seward, March 15, 1861
To John T. Stuart, March 30, 1861
To David D. Porter, April 1, 1861
To Winfield Scott, April 1, 1861
To William H. Seward, April 1, 1861
To Robert Anderson, April 4, 1861
To Robert S. Chew, April 6, 1861