Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States : Containing His Early History And Political Career; Together With the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations, And Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful Administration

Cover Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States : Containing His Early History And Political Career; Together With the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations, And Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful Administration

Lincoln's engraving by R. Whitechurch Includes selected quotes from Lincoln's speeches and correspondence (p. 1) Boyhood and early manhood -- In Congress and on the stump -- Before the nation -- Nominated and elected President -- To Washington -- The new administration -- Preparing for war -- The first session of Congress -- Close of 1861 -- The Congress of 1861-62 -- The slavery question -- The Peninsular Campaign -- Freedom to millions -- Last session of the Thirty-seventh Congress -- The tide

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turned -- Letters and speeches -- The Thirty-eighth Congress -- Progress -- Renominated -- Reconstruction -- Presidential campaign of 1864 -- Re-elected -- Tightening the lines -- In Richmond -- The last act -- The man -- Appendix. Mr. Lincoln's speeches in Congress and elsewhere, proclamations, letters, etc., not included in the body of the work: Speech on Mexican war, (in Congress, Jan. 12, 1848) -- Speech on internal improvements, (in Congress, June 20, 1848) -- Speech on the presidency and general politics, (in Congress, July 27, 1848) -- Speech in reply to Mr. Douglas, on Kansas, the Dred Scott Decision, and the Utah question, (at Springfield, June 26, 1857) -- Speech in reply to Senator Douglas, (at Chicago, July 10, 1858) -- Opening passages of his speech at Freeport -- Letter to Gen. McClellan -- Letter to Gen. Schofield relative to the removal of Gen. Curtis -- Three hundred thousand men called for -- Rev. Dr. McPheeters, President's reply to an appeal for interference -- An election ordered in the state of Arkansas -- Letter to William Fishback on the election in Arkansas -- Call for the five hundred thousand men -- Letter to Mrs. Gurney -- The Tennessee Test Oath Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography Fish, D. Lincoln bibliography Book, cloth; frontispiece Handwritten inscription in ink on presentation p.: [Presented to] Miss. [Dode Wing] [by] Jesse Roob, Dec. 25th, 1885 18

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