Abraham LincolnThis volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces- the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican State Convention Speech and the Emancipation Proclamation - but hundreds of lesser-known ones, including excerpts from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, letters to Grant, McClellan, Stanton and his wife, and various meditations, verses and fragments. |
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Abraham Lincoln Roy P. Basler. PROCLAMATION OF A NATIONAL FAST - DAY AUGUST 12 , 1861 By the President of the United States of America : A PROCLAMATION . Whereas a joint Committee of both Houses of Congress has waited on the President of ...
Abraham Lincoln Roy P. Basler. PROCLAMATION OF A NATIONAL FAST - DAY AUGUST 12 , 1861 By the President of the United States of America : A PROCLAMATION . Whereas a joint Committee of both Houses of Congress has waited on the President of ...
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... proclamation , as law , either is valid , or is not valid . If it is not valid , it needs no retraction . If it is valid , it can not be retracted , any more than the dead can be brought to life . Some of you profess to think its ...
... proclamation , as law , either is valid , or is not valid . If it is not valid , it needs no retraction . If it is valid , it can not be retracted , any more than the dead can be brought to life . Some of you profess to think its ...
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... Proclamation for Thanksgiving , " 727-729 , 729n . " Proclamation of Amnesty and Re- construction , " 738-741 . " Proclamation of a National Fast- Day , " 610-611 . " Proclamation 761-762 . of Thanksgiving , " Proclamations , style of ...
... Proclamation for Thanksgiving , " 727-729 , 729n . " Proclamation of Amnesty and Re- construction , " 738-741 . " Proclamation of a National Fast- Day , " 610-611 . " Proclamation 761-762 . of Thanksgiving , " Proclamations , style of ...
Contents
Speech in the United States House | 27 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
Letter to Colonel Robert Allen June 21 1836 | 59 |
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