Authors: Abraham Lincoln

Speech at Independence Hall

Mr. Cuyler:–I am filled with deep emotion at finding myself standing here in the place where were collected together the wisdom, the patriotism, the devotion to principle, from which sprang

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1825–1860

Speech at Chicago, Illinois

My Fellow Citizens: —On yesterday evening, upon the occasion of the reception given to Senator Douglas, I was furnished with a seat very convenient for hearing him, and was otherwise

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1825–1860

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 2nd Debate

Neely, Mark E. Jr. 1982. The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia. New York: Da Capo Press, Inc. https://nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/debate2.htm From the original source: It was a cloudy, cool, and damp day. Special trains brought

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1825–1860

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1st Debate

Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 3 [Aug. 21, 1858-Mar. 4, 1860]. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln3 Note from the original source: Senator Douglas’s two speeches take from the Chicago Times; Mr. Lincoln’s from

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1825–1860

Fragments on Slavery

If A. can prove, however conclusively, that he may, of right, enslave B.—why may not B. snatch the same argument, and prove equally, that he may enslave A?— You say

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1860–1877

Gettysburg Address

Source: Abraham Lincoln, address delivered at Gettysburg, PA, November 19, 1863, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.24404500/. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in

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