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 , heretofore only menaced , is now formidably attempted . I hold , that in contemplation of universal law , and of the Constitution , the Union of these States is perpetual . Perpetuity is implied , if not expressed , in the ...
... Union , heretofore only menaced , is now formidably attempted . I hold , that in contemplation of universal law , and of the Constitution , the Union of these States is perpetual . Perpetuity is implied , if not expressed , in the ...
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His Speeches and Writings Abraham Lincoln Roy Prentice Basler. Union , whence this magical omnipotence of " State rights , " assert- ing a claim of power to lawfully destroy the Union itself ? Much is said about the " sovereignty " of ...
His Speeches and Writings Abraham Lincoln Roy Prentice Basler. Union , whence this magical omnipotence of " State rights , " assert- ing a claim of power to lawfully destroy the Union itself ? Much is said about the " sovereignty " of ...
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... Union and none to the enemy ; and her people , at a regular election , have sustained the Union , by a larger majority , and a larger aggregate vote than they ever before gave to any candidate , or any question . Kentucky , too , for ...
... Union and none to the enemy ; and her people , at a regular election , have sustained the Union , by a larger majority , and a larger aggregate vote than they ever before gave to any candidate , or any question . Kentucky , too , for ...
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Political Announcement | 53 |
Letter to Colonel Robert Allen June 21 1836 | 59 |
Letter to Miss Mary Owens May 7 1837 | 73 |
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