Research Catalog

Title

The language of liberty : the political speeches and writings of Abraham Lincoln / edited with an introduction and notes by Joseph R. Fornieri.

Author

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

Publication

Washington, DC : Regnery Pub., c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Fornieri, Joseph R.

Description

lxvi, 829 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Correspondence
• Speeches, addresses, etc., American > 19th century
• United States > Politics and government > 1849-1861
• United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [lxiii]-lxvi) and index.

Contents

Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- Select bibliography -- Part I : "I am young and unknown," 1832-1854 -- To the people of Sangamo County, March 9, 1832 -- To the editor of the Sangamo Journal, June 13, 1836 -- Speech in the Illinois Legislature, January 11, 1837 -- Protest in Illinois Legislature, January 11, 1837 -- Protest in Illinois Legislature on slavery , March 3, 1837 -- Letter to Miss Mary Owens, May 7, 1837 -- Lyceum address, January 27, 1838 -- Letter to Mrs. O. H. Browning, April 1, 1838 -- Subtreasury speech, December 26, 1839 -- Letter to Mary Speed, September 27, 1841 -- Letter to Joshua Speed, January 3, 1842 -- Letter to Joshua Speed, February 3, 1842 -- Temperance address, February 22, 1842 -- Letter to Joshua Speed, July 4, 1842 -- Correspondence about the Lincoln-Shields duel, September 17, 1842 -- Memorandum of instructions to E. H. Merryman, Lincoln's second, September 19, 1842 -- "My childhood home I see again," 1846 and "The Bearhunt," 1846 -- Resolutions in U.S. House of Representatives, December 22, 1847 -- War with Mexico, speech in U.S. House of Representatives, January 12, 1848 -- Letter to William H. Herndon, February 15, 1848 -- Speech on internal improvements, June 20, 1848 -- Letters to Mary Todd Lincoln, April-July 1848 -- Presidential question : speech, U.S. House of Representatives, July 27, 1848 -- Remarks and resolution concerning the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, January 10, 1849 -- Fragment : notes for a law lecture, July 1, 1850 -- Letter to John D. Johnston, January 12, 1851 -- Resolutions in behalf of Hungarian freedom, January 9, 1852 -- Eulogy on Henry Clay, July 6, 1852 -- Fragments on government, July 1, 1854 -- Part II : "A house divided," 1854-1858 -- Fragments on slavery, July 1, 1854 -- Peoria speech, October 16, 1854 -- Letter to Owen Lovejoy, August 11, 1855 -- Letter to George Robertson, August 15, 1855 -- Letter to Joshua Speed, August 24, 1855 -- Speech at Bloomington, Illinois, May 29, 1856 -- Sectionalism, October 1, 1856 -- Speech at a Republican banquet, Chicago, Illinois, December 10, 1856 -- First lecture on discoveries and inventions, April 6, 1858 -- Second lecture on discoveries and inventions, February 11, 1859 -- The Dred Scott decision : speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857 -- A house divided : speech delivered at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858 -- Fragment on the struggle against slavery, July 1858 -- Speech in reply to Douglas at Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1858 -- Speech in reply to Douglas at Springfield, Illinois, July 17, 1858 -- Fragment : on slavery, August 1, 1858 -- Part III : The Lincoln-Douglas debates -- First joint debate, at Ottawa, August 21, 1858 -- Mr. Douglas's opening speech -- Mr. Lincoln's reply -- Mr. Douglas's rejoinder -- Second joint debate, at Freeport, August 27, 1858 -- Mr. Lincoln's opening speech -- Mr. Douglas's reply -- Mr. Lincoln's rejoinder -- Third joint debate, at Jonesboro, September 15, 1858 -- Mr. Douglas's speech -- Mr. Lincoln's reply -- Mr. Douglas's rejoinder -- Fourth joint debate, at Charleston, September 18, 1858 -- Mr. Lincoln's speech -- Mr. Douglas's reply -- Mr. Lincoln's rejoinder -- Extract from Mr. Trumbull's speech at Alton -- Extract from Douglas's speech at Jacksonville -- Fifth joint debate, at Galesburg, October 7, 1858 -- Mr. Douglas's speech -- Mr. Lincoln's reply -- Mr. Douglas's rejoinder -- Sixth joint debate, at Quincy, October 13, 1858 -- Mr. Lincoln's speech -- Mr. Douglas's reply -- Mr. Lincoln's rejoinder -- Seventh Joint debate, at Alton, October 15, 1858 -- Mr. Douglas's speech -- Mr. Lincoln's reply -- Mr. Douglas's rejoinder -- Part IV : "I would save the Union," 1859-1863 -- Letter to J.W. Fell, autobiography, December 20, 1859 -- Address at Cooper Institute, New York, February 27, 1859 -- The Declaration, the Constitution, and the Union, (1860) -- Letter to George Ashmun, May 23, 1860 -- Address to the New Jersey Senate at Trenton, New Jersey, February 21, 1861 -- Address in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1861 -- First Inaugural address, March 4, 1861 -- Message to Congress in special session, July 4, 1861 -- Letter to O. H. Browning, September 22, 1861 -- Annual message to Congress, December 3, 1861 -- Message to Congress, March 6, 1862 -- Letter to James A. McDougall, March 14, 1862 -- Letter to the Senate and House of Representatives, April 16, 1862 -- Proclamation revoking General Hunter's order of military emancipation of May 9, 1862 -- Appeal to border states to favor compensated emancipation, July 12, 1862 -- Letter to August Belmont, July 31, 1862 -- Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862 -- Letter to General G. B. McClellan, October 13, 1862 -- Telegram to General G. B. McClellan, October 24, 1862 -- Annual message to Congress, December 1, 1862 -- Emancipation preliminary proclamation, September 22, 1862, and final emancipation January 1, 1863 -- Part V : "The last full measure," 1863-1865 -- To the working men of Manchester, England, January 19, 1863 -- Letter to General Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863 -- Letter to Mary Todd Lincoln, June 9, 1863 -- Letter to Erastus Corning and other, June 12, 1863 -- Letter to General N. P. Banks, August 5, 1863 -- Letter to James Conkling, August 26,k 1863 -- Gettysburg address, November 19, 1863 -- Proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction, December 8, 1863 -- To Frederick Steele. January 20, 1864 -- Letter to Governor Michael Hahn, March 13, 1864 -- Address at a sanitary fair in Baltimore, April 18, 1864 -- Letter to Charles Robinson, August 17, 1864 -- Letter to Henry W. Hoffman, October 10, 1864 -- Response to a serenade, November 10, 1864 -- Letter to Mrs. Bixby, November 21, 1864 -- Annual message to Congress, December 6, 1864 -- Second Inaugural address, March 4, 1865 -- Last public address, April 11, 1865 -- Part VI : Lincoln's "political faith" -- The lyceum address, January 27, 1838 -- Temperance address, February 22, 1842 -- Letter to Joshua Speed, July 4, 1842 -- Religious views : letter to the editor of the Illinois Gazette, August 11, 1846 -- Handbill replying to charges of infidelity, July 31, 1846 -- Fragment : pro-slavery theology, October 1, 1858 -- Fragment : notes for speeches, October 1, 1858 -- Letter to H. L. Pierce and others, April 6, 1859 -- Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 17, 1859 -- Fragment on free labor, September 17, 1859 -- Speech at New Haven, Connecticut, March 6, 1860 -- Address to the New Jersey Senate at Trenton, February 21, 1861 -- Remarks to a delegation of progressive friends, June 20, 1862 -- Reply to Emancipation Memorial presented by Chicago Christians of All Denominations, September 13, 1862 -- Meditation on the divine will, September 30, 1862 -- Reply to Mrs. Eliza P. Gurney, October 26, 1862 -- Gettysburg address, November 19, 1863 -- To Edwin M. Stanton, February 5, 1864 -- To Albert Hodges, April 4, 1864 -- To George B. Ide, James R. Doolittle, and A. Hubbell, May 30, 1864 -- Letter to Mrs. Eliza P. Gurney, September 4, 1864 -- Royal Colored People of Baltimore upon presentation of a Bible, September 7, 1864 -- Story written for Noah Brooks, December 6, 1864 -- Second Inaugural address, March 4, 1865 -- Letter to Thurlow Weed, March 15, 1865 -- Proclamations of prayer and thanksgiving.

Call Number

IAW (Lincoln) 10-4132

ISBN

• 9781596980846
• 1596980842

OCLC

251189296

Author

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

Title

The language of liberty : the political speeches and writings of Abraham Lincoln / edited with an introduction and notes by Joseph R. Fornieri.

Imprint

Washington, DC : Regnery Pub., c2009.

Edition

Rev. bicentennial ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [lxiii]-lxvi) and index.

Added Author

Fornieri, Joseph R.

Research Call Number

IAW (Lincoln) 10-4132