Great Speeches

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Edition: Unabridged
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1991-11-20
Publisher(s): DOVER
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Summary

Representative collection of 16 masterly orations, correspondence, including "House Divided" speech at the Republican State Convention (1858), the First Inaugural Address (1861), the Gettysburg Address (1863), the Letter to Mrs. Bixby (1864), expressing regret over the wartime deaths of her 5 sons, and the Second Inaugural Address (1865).

Table of Contents

The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions: Address Before the Young men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838
 
The Presidential Question: Speech in the United States House of Representatives, July 27, 1848
 
A House Diveded: Speech Delivered at Springfield, Illinois, at the Close of the Republican State Convention, June 16, 1858
 
Last Speech in Springfield, Illinois, in the 1858 Campaign, October 30, 1858
 
Address at Cooper Institute, New York, February 27, 1860
 
Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, February 11, 1861
 
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
 
Message to Congress in Special Session, July 4, 1861
 
Proclamation of a National Fast-Day, August 12, 1861
 
Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862
 
Final Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
 
Proclamation for Thanksgiving, October 3, 1863
 
Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863
 
Letter to Mrs. Bixby, November 21, 1864
 
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
 
Last Public Address, April 11, 1865
 

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