Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and WritingsBasler has gone through the body of Lincoln utterance and his selections from it in a very peculiar time, a global war time and that war interwoven with many civil wars, a war in which the American Union of States issued as a colossal and decisive force among world powers. What have we to learn from Lincoln in this time when unprecedented and incalculable forces are to operate on our future, when the mind of man and his will and vision must meet the challenge of what is termed AA1, the Year One of the Atomic Age, when we hear the oft-recurring question, "What would Lincoln do now?" And now comes Mr. Basler to lay before you the best writings and speeches of Lincoln for you to find what of Lincoln is usable for these terrific history-shaping years. As a writer and speaker Lincoln had several styles and used them according to what events and occasions demanded. Plain talk, blunt and utterly lucid statements, these are to be found in plenty throughout his writings and speeches. Then again you may find him employing a prose that is cadenced, sonorous, masterly and having its relation to certain masterpieces of literature that had become part of him. - Preface. |
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... Union , or any other newspaper . I am willing to allow my history and action for the last twenty years to speak for themselves as to my political principles and my fidelity to political obligations . The Washington Union has a personal ...
... Union , or any other newspaper . I am willing to allow my history and action for the last twenty years to speak for themselves as to my political principles and my fidelity to political obligations . The Washington Union has a personal ...
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... Union . The sophism itself is , that any State of the Union may , consistently with the national Constitution , and there- fore lawfully and peacefully , withdraw from the Union without the consent of the Union or of any other State ...
... Union . The sophism itself is , that any State of the Union may , consistently with the national Constitution , and there- fore lawfully and peacefully , withdraw from the Union without the consent of the Union or of any other State ...
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... Union , was never more firm , nor more nearly unanimous , than now . The ex- traordinary calmness and good order with which the millions of voters met and mingled at the polls , give strong assurance of this . Not only all those who ...
... Union , was never more firm , nor more nearly unanimous , than now . The ex- traordinary calmness and good order with which the millions of voters met and mingled at the polls , give strong assurance of this . Not only all those who ...
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LINCOLNS DEVELOPMENT AS A WRITER | 1 |
Speech in the United States House | 27 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
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