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Lincoln:AVeryShortIntroduction VeryShortIntroductionsavailablenow: AFRICANHISTORY CONTEMPORARYART JohnParkerandRichardRathbone JulianStallabrass AMERICANPOLITICALPARTIES CONTINENTALPHILOSOPHY ANDELECTIONS L.SandyMaisel SimonCritchley THEAMERICANPRESIDENCY COSMOLOGY PeterColes CharlesO.Jones THECRUSADES ChristopherTyerman ANARCHISM ColinWard CRYPTOGRAPHY ANCIENTEGYPT IanShaw FredPiperandSeanMurphy ANCIENTPHILOSOPHY JuliaAnnas DADAANDSURREALISM ANCIENTWARFARE DavidHopkins HarrySidebottom DARWIN JonathanHoward ANGLICANISM MarkChapman THEDEADSEASCROLLS THEANGLO-SAXONAGE JohnBlair TimothyLim ANIMALRIGHTS DavidDeGrazia DEMOCRACY BernardCrick ANTISEMITISM StevenBeller DESCARTES TomSorell APOCRYPHALGOSPELS DESIGN JohnHeskett PaulFoster DINOSAURS DavidNorman ARCHAEOLOGY PaulBahn DOCUMENTARYFILM ARCHITECTURE AndrewBallantyne PatriciaAufderheide ARISTOTLE JonathanBarnes DREAMING J.AllanHobson ARTHISTORY DanaArnold DRUGS LeslieIversen ARTTHEORY CynthiaFreeland THEEARTH MartinRedfern THEHISTORYOFASTRONOMY ECONOMICS ParthaDasgupta MichaelHoskin EGYPTIANMYTH GeraldinePinch ATHEISM JulianBaggini EIGHTEENTH-CENTURYBRITAIN AUGUSTINE HenryChadwick PaulLangford Autism UtaFrith THEELEMENTS PhilipBall BARTHES JonathanCuller EMOTION DylanEvans BESTSELLERS JohnSutherland EMPIRE StephenHowe THEBIBLE JohnRiches ENGELS TerrellCarver THEBRAIN MichaelO’Shea ETHICS SimonBlackburn BRITISHPOLITICS AnthonyWright THEEUROPEANUNION BUDDHA MichaelCarrithers JohnPinderandSimonUsherwood BUDDHISM DamienKeown EVOLUTION BUDDHISTETHICS DamienKeown BrianandDeborahCharlesworth CAPITALISM JamesFulcher EXISTENTIALISM ThomasFlynn THECELTS BarryCunliffe FASCISM KevinPassmore CHAOS LeonardSmith FEMINISM MargaretWalters CHOICETHEORY MichaelAllingham THEFIRSTWORLDWAR CHRISTIANART BethWilliamson MichaelHoward CHRISTIANITY LindaWoodhead FOSSILS KeithThomson Citizenship RichardBellamy FOUCAULT GaryGutting CLASSICALMYTHOLOGY FREEWILL ThomasPink HelenMorales THEFRENCHREVOLUTION CLASSICS WilliamDoyle MaryBeardandJohnHenderson FREUD AnthonyStorr CLAUSEWITZ MichaelHoward FUNDAMENTALISM MaliseRuthven THECOLDWAR RobertMcMahon galaxies JohnGribbin CONSCIOUSNESS SusanBlackmore GALILEO StillmanDrake GAMETHEORY KenBinmore THEMARQUISDESADE JohnPhillips GANDHI BhikhuParekh MARX PeterSinger Geography MATHEMATICS TimothyGowers JohnMatthewsandDavidHerbert Themeaningoflife GEOPOLITICS KlausDodds TerryEagleton GERMANLITERATURE MEDICALETHICS TonyHope NicholasBoyle MEDIEVALBRITAIN GLOBALCATASTROPHES JohnGillinghamandRalphA.Griffiths BillMcGuire Memory JonathanK.Foster GLOBALWARMING MarkMaslin MODERNART DavidCottington GLOBALIZATION ManfredSteger MODERNCHINA RanaMitter THEGREATDEPRESSIONANDTHE MODERNIRELAND SeniaPaˇseta NEWDEAL EricRauchway MOLECULES PhilipBall HABERMAS JamesGordonFinlayson Mormonism HEGEL PeterSinger RichardLymanBushman HEIDEGGER MichaelInwood MUSIC NicholasCook HIEROGLYPHS PenelopeWilson MYTH RobertA.Segal HINDUISM KimKnott NATIONALISM StevenGrosby HISTORY JohnH.Arnold NelsonMandela EllekeBoehmer TheHistoryofLife MichaelBenton THENEWTESTAMENTAS HistoryofMedicine LITERATURE KyleKeefer WilliamBynum NEWTON RobertIliffe TheHistoryOFTIME NIETZSCHE MichaelTanner LeofrancHolford-Strevens NINETEENTH-CENTURY HIV/AIDS AlanWhiteside BRITAIN ChristopherHarvie HOBBES RichardTuck andH.C.G.Matthew HUMANEVOLUTION BernardWood NORTHERNIRELAND HUMANRIGHTS AndrewClapham MarcMulholland HUME A.J.Ayer nuclearweapons IDEOLOGY MichaelFreeden JosephM.Siracusa INDIANPHILOSOPHY SueHamilton THEOLDTESTAMENT INTELLIGENCE IanJ.Deary MichaelD.Coogan INTERNATIONALMIGRATION PARTICLEPHYSICS FrankClose KhalidKoser PAUL E.P.Sanders INTERNATIONALRELATIONS PHILOSOPHY EdwardCraig PaulWilkinson PHILOSOPHYOFLAW ISLAM MaliseRuthven RaymondWacks JOURNALISM IanHargreaves PHILOSOPHYOFSCIENCE JUDAISM NormanSolomon SamirOkasha JUNG AnthonyStevens PHOTOGRAPHY SteveEdwards KABBALAH JosephDan PLATO JuliaAnnas KAFKA RitchieRobertson POLITICALPHILOSOPHY KANT RogerScruton DavidMiller KIERKEGAARD PatrickGardiner POLITICS KennethMinogue THEKORAN MichaelCook POSTCOLONIALISM RobertYoung law RaymondWacks POSTMODERNISM LINCOLNAllenGuelzo ChristopherButler LINGUISTICS PeterMatthews POSTSTRUCTURALISM LITERARYTHEORY JonathanCuller CatherineBelsey LOCKE JohnDunn PREHISTORY ChrisGosden LOGIC GrahamPriest PRESOCRATICPHILOSOPHY MACHIAVELLI QuentinSkinner CatherineOsborne PSYCHIATRY TomBurns Sexuality Ve´roniqueMottier PSYCHOLOGY SHAKESPEARE GermaineGreer GillianButlerandFredaMcManus SIKHISM EleanorNesbitt THEQUAKERS PinkDandelion SOCIALANDCULTURAL QUANTUMTHEORY ANTHROPOLOGY JohnPolkinghorne JohnMonaghanandPeterJust RACISM AliRattansi SOCIALISM MichaelNewman THERENAISSANCE JerryBrotton SOCIOLOGY SteveBruce RENAISSANCEART SOCRATES C.C.W.Taylor GeraldineA.Johnson THESPANISHCIVILWAR RELATIVITY RussellStannard HelenGraham ReligioninAmerica SPINOZA RogerScruton TimothyBeal STATISTICS DavidJ.Hand ROMANBRITAIN PeterSalway STUARTBRITAIN JohnMorrill THEROMANEMPIRE TERRORISM CharlesTownshend ChristopherKelly THEOLOGY DavidF.Ford ROUSSEAU RobertWokler TRAGEDY AdrianPoole RUSSELL A.C.Grayling THETUDORS JohnGuy RUSSIANLITERATURE CatrionaKelly TWENTIETH-CENTURY THERUSSIANREVOLUTION BRITAIN KennethO.Morgan S.A.Smith unitedNations SCHIZOPHRENIA JussiM.Hanhim¨aki ChrisFrithandEveJohnstone THEVIKINGS JulianRichards SCHOPENHAUER WITTGENSTEIN A.C.Grayling ChristopherJanaway WORLDMUSIC PhilipBohlman Scienceandreligion THEWORLDTRADE ThomasDixon ORGANIZATION SCOTLAND RabHouston AmritaNarlikar Availablesoon: Biography HermioneLee TheSovietUnion FreeSpeech NigelWarburton StephenLovell ModernJapan TheVietnamWar ChristopherGoto-Jones MarkAtwoodLawrence Formoreinformationvisitourwebsite www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ Allen C. Guelzo Lincoln A Very Short Introduction 3 3 OxfordUniversityPress,Inc.,publishesworksthatfurther OxfordUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellence inresearch,scholarship,andeducation. Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright#2009byAllenC.Guelzo PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016 www.oup.com OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofOxfordUniversityPress. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Guelzo,AllenC. Lincoln:averyshortintroduction/AllenC.Guelzo. p. cm.—(Veryshortintroductions) Includesbibliographicalreferences. Summary:‘‘AbrahamLincolnwasafatalistwhopromotedfreedom; hewasaclassicalliberalwhocouchedliberalism’sgreatest deed—emancipationoftheslaves—intheunliberallanguage ofdivineprovidence;hewasareligiousdoubterwhobecamea nationaliconborderingonreligion;andhewasarights-oriented liberalwhoappealedtonaturallawwhenconfrontingslavery’’ —Providedbypublisher. ISBN978–0–19–536780–5 1.Lincoln,Abraham,1809–1865—Philosophy. 2.Lincoln,Abraham, 1809–1865—Politicalandsocialviews. 3.Lincoln,Abraham, 1809–1865—Religion. 4.Presidents—UnitedStates—Biography. I.Title. E457.2.G8742009 973.7092—dc22 [B] 2008041654 135798642 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper Contents Listofillustrations viii Maps ix Introduction 1 1 Equality 9 2 Advancement 24 3 Law 38 4 Liberty 56 5 Debate 72 6 Emancipation 90 7 Reunion 108 Epilogue 124 References 129 Furtherreading 135 Index 143 List of illustrations 1 Lincolnin1863 3 6 StephenArnoldDouglas 75 LibraryofCongress, LibraryofCongress, LC-USZ62-121301 LC-USZ62-110141 2 Earliestknownphotograph 7 Lincolnbeforespeakingat ofLincoln 20 CooperUnion 87 LibraryofCongress, LibraryofCongress, LC-USZC4-2439 LC-USZ62-5803 3 AlockontheIllinoisand 8 Lincoln’sinauguration MichiganCanal 32 ceremony 95 LibraryofCongress,HAER LibraryofCongress, ILL,99-LOCK,2-7 LC-USZ62-22734 4 ThecourthouseatMount 9 Gardner’sportraitofLincoln Pulaski,Illinois 44 in1863 111 IllinoisHistoricPreservation LibraryofCongress, Agency LC-USZ62-13016 5 MaryToddLincoln 51 10 ThepresidentialboxatFord’s LibraryofCongress, Theatre 123 LC-USZ6-2094 LibraryofCongress, HABSDC,WASH,421-3 Maps 1 StatesandTerritoriesoftheUnitedStatesattheTimeofthe Kansas-NebraskaAct 68 2 SecessionandCivilWar 92
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