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Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25953821) ACE #1 For someone who claimed he had been educated by "littles" a little now and a little then Abraham Lincoln displayed a remarkable facility in his use of the written word. The simple yet memorable eloquence of his speeches, proclamations and personal correspondence is recorded here in a representative collection of 16 documents. This volume contains, complete and unabridged, the Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (1838), which emphasized a theme Lincoln was to return to repeatedly, namely, the capacity of a people to govern themselves; the "House Divided" speech at the Republican State Convention in Illinois (1858); the First Inaugural Address (1861), in which he appealed to the people of an already divided union for sectional harmony; the Gettysburg Address (1863), a speech delivered at ceremonies dedicating a part of the Gettysburg battlefield as a cemetery; the Letter to Mrs. Bixby (1864), expressing Lincoln's regrets over the wartime deaths of her five sons; the Second Inaugural Address (March 1865), urging a post-war nation to "bind up its wou

Author

Abraham Lincoln; with historical notes by John Grafton

Publisher

Dover Publications, Incorporated

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486130880

Subjects

History, Reference, Political Science

Rating

4.15 / 5 (246 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14