Authors: Abraham Lincoln

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

Mr. PRESIDENT and Gentlemen of the Convention. If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to

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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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1860–1877

Inaugural Address (1861)

Source: Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202167. Fellow citizens of the United States: In compliance with a custom as

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