Authors: Abraham Lincoln

1860–1877

Inaugural Address (1865)

Source: Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202171. Fellow Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the

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The Temperance Address

Source: Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Centenary Edition, vol. 2, ed. Marion Mills Miller (New York: Current Literature Publishing Company, 1907), 73–86, https://archive.org/details/lifeworks02lincuoft/page/274. Although the Temperance cause has been

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1825–1860

Speech on the Dred Scott Decision

Source: Abraham Lincoln, “Reply to Douglas,” in Life of Abraham Lincoln . . .Containing . . . the speeches, messages, proclamations and other official documents illustrative of his eventful administration,

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1860–1877

Inaugural Address (1865)

Source: Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address; endorsed by Lincoln, April 10, 1865. Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division (Washington, D.C.: American Memory Project, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html. Fellow Countrymen: At this

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1825–1860

Speech on the War with Mexico

Source: Abraham Lincoln Papers, series 1, General Correspondence, 1833 to 1916: “Abraham Lincoln to Congress, Speech regarding Mexican War,” 1848, Manuscript/Mixed Material, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mal0007400/. Some, if not all

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House Divided Speech

Source: Abraham Lincoln, “A Speech of the Hon. Abraham Lincoln,” Illinois State Journal, vol. 11, no. 6, June 18, 1858. http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=SJO18580618&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN——– Mr. PRESIDENT and Gentlemen of the Convention. If we

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Teachers find that Abraham Lincoln's writing clearly explains American political principles.
1825–1860

Reply to the Dred Scott Decision

Source: Frank Crosby, LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, HIS EARLY HISTORY AND POLITICAL CAREER; TOGETHER WITH THE SPEECHES, MESSAGES, PROCLAMATIONS AND OTHER OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF HIS EVENTFUL ADMINISTRATION (Philadelphia: John

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