In His Words: Readings from the Life of Abraham Lincoln
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 182
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 182
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Abraham Lincoln’s words and actions convinced the American people not only to persevere and save the Union, but to create at the same time a more perfect union that granted freedom and liberty for all its citizens.
In His Words: Readings from the Life of Abraham Lincoln provides readers with documentary evidence of the workings of Abe. While not designed as a documentary biography on Lincoln, the publication does include letters, speeches, fragmentary notes, and other writings in chronological order spanning from his childhood on the frontier, as a husband and father, as a successful Illinois lawyer, and ultimately as the political leader who guided the nation through the crucible of the Civil War.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Selected Events in the Life of Abraham Lincoln
PART ONE – Growing and Learning
Politics
To the People of Sangamo County, March 9, 1832
“The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions” – Address to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838
Courtship
To Mary S. Owens, December 13, 1836
To Mary Owens, May 7, 1837
To Mary Owens, August 16, 1837
Letter to Mrs. Orville Browning, April 1, 1838
Melancholy
To John T. Stuart, January 20, 1841
To John T. Stuart, January 23, 1841
To Joshua F. Speed, January 3 [?], 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, February 3, 1842
To Joshua F. Speed [private], February 25, 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, February 25, 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, March 27, 1842
Accountability
Letter from the Lost Townships [the “Rebecca Letter”], August 27, 1842
To James Shields, September 17, 1842
Memorandum of Duel Instructions to Elias H. Merryman, September 19, 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, October 5, 1842
Principles
To Martin S. Morris, March 26, 1843
Handbill Replying to Charges of Infidelity, July 31, 1846
Fragment: Notes for a Law Lecture, July 1, 1850 [?]
To Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855
To Isham Reavis, November 5, 1855
Further Readings
PART TWO – Lincoln and Slavery
Early Views
Protest in the Illinois Legislature on Slavery, March 3, 1837
To Mary Speed, September 27, 1841
Remarks and Resolution Introduced in United States House of Representatives Concerning Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia
Fragments on Slavery, April 1[?], 1854
Attacking Slavery
Speech at Peoria, Illinois (excerpts), October 16, 1854
To George Robertson, August 15, 1855
“A House Divided’’: Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858
Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858
Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860
The End of Slavery
Message to Congress, March 6, 1862
Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
Reply to New York Workingmen’s Democratic Republican Association, March 21, 1864
To Charles D. Robinson, August 17, 1864
Further Readings
PART THREE – Lincoln and the Presidency
Taking Charge
Speech in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1861
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
To William H. Seward, April 1, 1861
Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus, September 24, 1862
To the Workingmen of Manchester, England, January 19, 1863
Commander-in-Chief
To John A. McClernand, November 10,1861
To George B. McClellan, June 28, 1862
To William H. Seward, June 28, 1862
To George B. McClellan, July 1, 1862
To Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863
Letters to Joseph Hooker, June 10-16, 1863
To Ulysses S. Grant, April 30, 1864
Explaining the Cost
Meditation on the Divine Will, September 2, 1862, [?]
To Fanny McCullough, December 23, 1862
To Erastus Corning and Others, June 12, 1863
Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863
To Mrs. Lydia Bixby, November 21, 1864
Reunion and Reconciliation
To Andrew Johnson, September 11, 1863
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, December 8, 1863
To Michael Hahn, March 13. 1864
Memorandum Concerning His Probable Failure of Re-election, August 23, 1864
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
Last Public Address, April 11, 1865
Further Readings
PART FOUR – Lincoln and his Legacy
Words Have Consequences
Further Readings