ume of Lincoln's addresses and letters with something of the feeling that Walt Whitman has uttered with regard to Lincoln's portraits : “None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there," BLISS PERRY.

CONTENTS

Editor's Introduction

Speeches-Selected

The Whigs and the Mexican War
Notes for a Law Lecture

Fragment on Slavery

The Dred Scott Decision and the

Declaration of Independence

Springfield Speech

Cooper Union Speech

Farewell at Springfield

Speech in Independence Hall, Phila

delphia

First Inaugural Address

Emancipation Proclamation

Gettysburg Address

Speech to 166th Ohio Regiment

Response to a Serenade

Reply to Committee on Electoral Count
Second Inaugural Address

Letters

To McClellan

To Seward

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Selected Speeches