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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. ... Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln. New York, Chicago [etc.] Gregg Pub. Co. [©1920] (OCoLC)758996881 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Abraham Lincoln; Albert Bushnell Hart |
OCLC Number: | 3125747 |
Description: | 345 pages portraits 17 cm. |
Contents: | I. Autobiographies -- 1. Autobiographical sketch prepared for the Dictionary of Congress (June 1858) -- 2. Brief autobiography prepared for J.W. Fell (Dec. 20, 1859) -- 3. Short autobiography prepared for a popular campaign (June 1, 1860) -- 4. Memorandum given to the artist Hicks (June 14, 1860) -- II. 1836-1853 -- 5. Early principles of popular government (June 13, 1836) -- 6. Reverence for law (Jan. 27, 1837) -- 7. On the stump (Dec. 26, 1839) -- 8. A near view of slavery (Sept. 27, 1841) -- 9. Opinions of Texas (Oct. 3, 1845) -- 10. Against the Mexican War (Dec. 22, 1847) -- 11. Self-advice for a lawyer (July 1850) -- 12. Advice to a slack man (Jan. 2, 1851) -- III. 1854-1860 -- 13. "Lost speech" on slavery (May 29, 1854) -- 14. The slavery crisis (Aug. 24, 1855) -- 15. Origin of the idea of half slave and half free (Aug. 15, 1855) -- 16. Equality the central idea (1856) -- 17. No dissolution of the Union (1856) -- 18. Dred Scott decision (June 26, 1857) -- 19. "A house divided against itself cannot stand" (June 16, 1858) -- 20. Popular sovereignty (July 10, 1858) -- 21. Essence of the Declaration of Independence (July 10, 1858) -- 22. The Freeport doctrine (Aug. 27, 1858) -- 23. Definition of democracy (Aug. 1?, 1858) -- 24. Our defense is the spirit of liberty (Sept. 13, 1858) -- 25. Come back to the Declaration of Independence (Aug. 17, 1858) -- 26. The principles of Jefferson (Apr. 6, 1859) -- 27. Capital and labor (Sept. 17, 1859) -- 28. An appeal to the South at Cooper Institute (Feb. 27, 1860) -- 29. Labor's interest against slavery (1860) -- 30. Knownothingism (July 21, 1860) -- 31. Elected president (Nov. 20-Dec. 13, 1860) -- 32. To run the machine as it is (Dec. 17, 1860) -- 33. The basis of compromise (Dec. 22, 1860) -- IV. 1861-1865 -- 34. The state of the union (Feb. 11-22, 1861) -- 35. The first inaugural (Mar. 4, 1861) -- 36. Asking advice of the senate (Mar. 16, 1861) -- 37. The president is president (Apr. 1, 1861) -- 38. Loss of a noble soldier (May 25, 1861) -- 39. The call to arms (Apr. 15, 1861) -- 40. The war message (July 4, 1861) -- 41. "Wanting to work" (Oct. 17, 1861) -- 42. The nation and the war (Dec. 3, 1861) -- 43. A message to English working men (Jan. 10, 1862) -- 44. Executive order on political prisoners (Feb. 14, 1862) -- 45. Friendship with other nations (Mar. 4, 1862) -- 46. Advice to the border states (Mar. 10, 1862) -- 47. Proclamation of thanksgiving for victories (Apr. 10, 1862) -- 48. Thanks to the soldiers (May 15-Dec. 23, 1862) -- 49. The broader powers of the Constitution (May 26, 1862) -- 50. The army and fugitive slaves (July 28, 1862) -- 51. Duty of aliens (July 21, 1862) -- 52. Answer to the "prayer of twenty millions" (Aug. 22, 1862) -- 53. Colonization of Negroes (Aug. 14, 1862) -- 54. Delay in emancipation (Sept. 13, 1862) -- 55. Preliminary emancipation proclamation (Sept. 22, 1862) -- 56. The judgment of the country (Sept. 24, 1862) -- 57. The slowness of the war (Nov. 4, 1862) -- 58. Hopes of peace (Dec. 12, 1862) -- 59. Final proclamation of emancipation (Jan. 1, 1863) -- 60. The commander-in-chief to the generals (Jan. 22-Oct. 4, 1863) -- 61. War on the ministers (Jan. 2, 1863) -- 62. Prayers of God's people (Jan. 5, 1863) -- 63. The long-enduring consequences (Feb. 22, 1863) -- 64. Recalling soldiers to their regiments (Mar. 10, 1863) -- 65. Military service of aliens (May 8, 1863) -- 66. The Constitution in war (June 29, 1863) -- 67. Victory at Gettysburg (July 4, 1863) -- 68. "The fourth of July" (July 7, 1836) -- 69. Effect of emancipation (Aug. 26, 1863) -- 70. Gettysburg address (Nov. 19, 1863) -- 71. Proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction (Dec. 8, 1863) -- 72. Review of the war (Dec. 8, 1863) -- 73. "Trying to evade the butchering business" (Jan. 7, 1864) -- 74. A positive direction (Mar. 1, 1864) -- 75. Lincoln and Grant (Mar. 9-Apr. 30, 1864) -- 76. Capital and labor (Mar. 21, 1864) -- 77. The case against slavery (Apr. 4, 1864) -- 78. What is liberty? (Apr. 18, 1864) -- 79. Honor to the churches (May 14, 1864) -- 80. Sticking to the war (June 16, 1864) -- 81. Abiding the issue (Aug. 15, 1864) -- 82. What is involved in this contest (Aug. 18-22, 1864) -- 83. The purposes of the Almighty (Sept. 4, 1864) -- 84. The Constitution the ultimate law (Oct. 19, 1864) -- 85. No free government without elections (Nov. 9, 1864) -- 86. Victory, not triumph (Nov. 17, 1864) -- 87. The anti-slavery amendment to the Constitution (Dec. 6, 1864) -- 88. Origin of the greenbacks (Dec. 16, 1864) -- 89. To the mother of five heroes (Nov. 21, 1864) -- 90. Response to serenades (May 9-Nov. 10, 1864) -- 91. Following the death (Aug. 3, 1864) -- 92. "With malice toward none, with charity for all" (Mar. 4, 1865) -- 93. Last public address (Apr. 11, 1865) -- Lincoln chronology. |
Series Title: | Living literature series. |
Responsibility: | edited by Albert Bushnell Hart. |
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