Fifteen Speeches and a letter by Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), from his early life in Springfield Illinois (1838) through to his last public address on April 11, 1865, just four days before his assassination.
* June 1858 “A House Divided” speech given by Lincoln, the Illinois Republican Party’s nominee for US Senate against Stephen A. Douglas, in the wake of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott case.
* Feb 1860 Address at Cooper Institute in New York, which catapulted him to national prominence in the anti-slavery North.
* March 1861 First Inaugural Address: Just one month later, Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, initiating the Civil War.
* January 1 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation turned the Civil War into a war to end slavery.
* November 1863 Gettysburg Address famously begins: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
* March 1865 Second Inaugural Address: “With malice toward none; with charity for all” Lincoln called “to bind up the nation’s wounds.” The 13th Amendment abolishing slavery had passed the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865.
Great Speeches by Abraham Lincoln
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Fifteen Speeches and a letter by Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), from his early life in Springfield Illinois (1838) through to his last public address on April 11, 1865, just four days before his assassination.
* June 1858 “A House Divided” speech in the wake of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott case.
* Feb 1860 Address at Cooper Institute in New York.
* March 1861 First Inaugural Address, one month before the outbreak of the Civil War.
* January 1 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.
* November 1863 Gettysburg Address: government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
* March 1865 Second Inaugural Address: “With malice toward none; with charity for all” Lincoln called “to bind up the nation’s wounds.”
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