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Title: Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections)
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Release Date: December 6, 2004 [EBook #14274]
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LINCOLN'S INAUGURALS, ADDRESSES AND LETTERS
(SELECTIONS)
EDITED
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR AND NOTES
BY
DANIEL KILHAM DODGE, PH.D.
PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK
PRAIRIE AVENUE & 25TH STREET, CHICAGO
Copyright, 1910,
BY
LONGMANS GREEN AND CO.
FIRST EDITION, JULY, 1910
REPRINTED, JUNE, 1913, MAY, 1915, MARCH, 1917
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE--LINCOLN
INAUGURALS, ADDRESSES, AND LETTERS
Address to the People of Sangamon County, March 9, 1832
The Perpetuation of our Political Institutions, January 27, 1837
Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858
Second Joint Debate at Freeport, August 27, 1858
The Cooper Institute Address, Monday, February 27, 1860
Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, February 12, 1861
Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, February 11, 1861
Address in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, February 22, 1861
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
Response to Serenade, March 4, 1861
Letter to Colonel Ellsworth's Parents, May 25, 1861
Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862
Extract from the Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862
The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
Thanksgiving Proclamation, July 15, 1863
Letter to J. C. Conkling, August 26, 1863
Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
Letter to Mrs. Bixby, November 21, 1864
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
Last Public Address, April 11, 1865
APPENDIX. Autobiography, December 20, 1859
NOTES
INTRODUCTION
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