Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings: A Library of America Paperback Classic

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To the Editor of the Sangamo Journal, June 13, 1836
To the Editor of the Sangamo Journal, June 13, 1836
To Mary S. Owens, December 13, 1836
Protest in the Illinois Legislature on Slavery, March 3, 1837
To Mary S. Owens, May 7, 1837
To Mary S. Owens, August 16, 1837
Address to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838
To Mrs. Orville H. Browning, April 1, 1838
To William S. Wait, March 2, 1839
To Andrew McCormick, c. December 1840–January 1841
To John T. Stuart, January 20, 1841
To John T. Stuart, January 23, 1841
To Mary Speed, September 27, 1841
To Joshua F. Speed, c. early January 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, February 13, 1842
Address to the Washington Temperance Society of Springfield, Illinois, February 22, 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, February 25, 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, February 25, 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, March 27, 1842
To Joshua F. Speed, July 4, 1842
To Williamson Durley, October 3, 1845
To Henry E. Dummer, November 18, 1845
To Robert Boal, January 7, 1846
To Andrew Johnston, April 18, 1846
Handbill Replying to Charges of Infidelity, July 31, 1846
To Andrew Johnston, September 6, 1846
“Spot” Resolutions in the U.S. House of Representatives, December 22, 1847
From Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives on the War with Mexico, January 12, 1848
To William H. Herndon, February 1, 1848
To William H. Herndon, February 15, 1848
To Mary Todd Lincoln, April 16, 1848
To Archibald Williams, April 30, 1848
To Mary Todd Lincoln, June 12, 1848
To William H. Herndon, June 22, 1848
To Horace Greeley, June 27, 1848
To William H. Herndon, July 10, 1848
To William H. Herndon, July 11, 1848
Fragment on Niagara Falls, late September 1848?
To Thomas Lincoln and John D. Johnston, December 24, 1848
To William B. Preston, May 16, 1849
To Elisha Embree, May 25, 1849
Notes on the Practice of Law, 1850?
To John D. Johnston, January 12, 1851
To John D. Johnston, November 25, 1851
From Eulogy on Henry Clay at Springfield, Illinois, July 6, 1852
To Thompson R. Webber, September 12, 1853
To Mason Brayman, October 3, 1853
Fragment on Government, 1854?
Fragment on Slavery, 1854?
From Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854
To William H. Henderson, February 21, 1855
To Owen Lovejoy, August 11, 1855
To George Robertson, August 15, 1855
To Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855
To Lyman Trumbull, June 7, 1856
To Lyman Trumbull, August 11, 1856
Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan, August 27, 1856
On Stephen Douglas, c. December 1856
Speech at Republican Banquet in Chicago, Illinois, December 10, 1856
From Speech on the Dred Scott Decision at Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857
Draft of a Speech, c. late December 1857
To Lyman Trumbull, December 28, 1857
To Ozias M. Hatch, March 24, 1858
To Charles L. Wilson, June 1, 1858
“House Divided” Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858
From Speech at Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1858
To Henry Asbury, July 31, 1858
From First Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858
From Second Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Freeport, Illinois, August 27, 1858
Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois, September 11, 1858
From Third Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Jonesboro, Illinois, September 15, 1858
From Fourth Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858
On Pro-slavery Theology, 1858?
From Fifth Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Galesburg, Illinois, October 7, 1858n
From Sixth Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Quincy, Illinois, October 13, 1858
From Seventh Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Alton, Illinois, October 15, 1858
To Norman B. Judd, October 20, 1858
Last Speech in Campaign of 1858, Springfield, Illinois, October 30, 1858
To Charles H. Ray, November 20, 1858
Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions, Jacksonville, Illinois, February 11, 1859
Speech at Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 1859
To Henry L. Pierce and Others, April 6, 1859
To Theodore Canisius, May 17, 1859
To Salmon P. Chase, June 20, 1859
To Samuel Galloway, July 28, 1859
From Speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 1859
From Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 17, 1859
From Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859
To Jesse W. Fell, Enclosing Autobiography, December 20, 1859
From Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860
To Mary Todd Lincoln, March 4, 1860
From Speech at New Haven, Connecticut, March 6, 1860
To Samuel Galloway, March 24, 1860
To Lyman Trumbull, April 29, 1860
To George Ashmun, May 23, 1860
Autobiography Written for Campaign, c. June 1860
To Grace Bedell, October 19, 1860
To George T. M. Davis, October 27, 1860
To William Kellogg, December 11, 1860
To John A. Gilmer, December 15, 1860
To Thurlow Weed, December 17, 1860
To Alexander H. Stephens, December 22, 1860
To James T. Hale, January 11, 1861
Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, February 11, 1861
Speech to Germans at Cincinnati, Ohio, February 12, 1861
Address to the New Jersey Senate at Trenton, New Jersey, February 21, 1861
Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1861
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
To William H. Seward, April 1, 1861
To Robert Anderson, April 4, 1861
To Robert S. Chew, April 6, 1861
Proclamation Calling Militia and Convening Congress, April 15, 1861
To Reverdy Johnson, April 24, 1861
To Winfield Scott, April 25, 1861
To Winfield Scott, April 27, 1861
Message to Congress in Special Session, July 4, 1861
To John C. Frémont, September 2, 1861
To John C. Frémont, September 11, 1861
To Orville H. Browning, September 22, 1861
From Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861
To Don C. Buell, January 6, 1862
Message to Congress, March 6, 1862
To Henry J. Raymond, March 9, 1862
Speech to a Massachusetts Delegation, Washington, D.C., March 13, 1862
To George B. McClellan, April 9, 1862
To George B. McClellan, June 28, 1862
Appeal to Border-State Representatives for Compensated Emancipation, Washington, D.C., July 12, 1862
Address on Colonization to a Committee of Colored Men, Washington, D.C., August 14, 1862
To Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862
Meditation on the Divine Will, c. early September 1862
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862
Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus, September 24, 1862
To Hannibal Hamlin, September 28, 1862
To George B. McClellan, October 13, 1862
To John Pope, November 10, 1862
To George F. Shepley, November 21, 1862
To Nathaniel P. Banks, November 22, 1862
To Carl Schurz, November 24, 1862
From Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862
Message to Senate on Minnesota Indians, December 11, 1862
To Fanny McCullough, December 23, 1862
Final Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
To John A. McClernand, January 8, 1863
To Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863
To John M. Schofield, May 27, 1863
To Joseph Hooker, June 10, 1863
To Erastus Corning and Others, June 12, 1863
To Joseph Hooker, June 16, 1863
To George G. Meade, July 14, 1863
To Oliver O. Howard, July 21, 1863
To Montgomery Blair, July 24, 1863
Order of Retaliation, July 30, 1863
To Stephen A. Hurlbut, July 31, 1863
To Nathaniel P. Banks, August 5, 1863
To James H. Hackett, August 17, 1863
To James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863
To Salmon P. Chase, September 2, 1863
To Andrew Johnson, September 11, 1863
Opinion on the Draft, c. mid-September 1863
To Henry W. Halleck, September 19, 1863
To James M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
To James H. Hackett, November 2, 1863
To Nathaniel P. Banks, November 5, 1863
Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863
From Annual Message to Congress, December 8, 1863
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, December 8, 1863
To Thomas Cottman, December 15, 1863
To Oliver D. Filley, December 22, 1863
To Edwin M. Stanton, February 5, 1864
To Salmon P. Chase, February 29, 1864
To Edwin M. Stanton, March 1, 1864
To John A. J. Creswell, March 7, 1864
To Michael Hahn, March 13, 1864
To Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864
Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland, April 18, 1864
To Charles Sumner, May 19, 1864
To John H. Bryant, May 30, 1864
Reply to Committee of the National Union Convention, Washington, D.C., June 9, 1864
Reply to Delegation from the National Union League, Washington, D.C., June 9, 1864
To Salmon P. Chase, June 30, 1864
Proclamation Concerning Reconstruction, July 8, 1864
To John McMahon, August 6, 1864
To Charles D. Robinson, August 17, 1864
Speech to the 166th Ohio Regiment, August 22, 1864
Memorandum on Probable Failure of Re-election, August 23, 1864
To Eliza P. Gurney, September 4, 1864
To William T. Sherman, September 19, 1864
Response to Serenade, Washington, D.C., October 19, 1864
Response to Serenade, Washington, D.C., November 10, 1864
To Stephen A. Hurlbut, November 14, 1864
To Mrs. Lydia Bixby, November 21, 1864
From Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1864
To William T. Sherman, December 26, 1864
To Ulysses S. Grant, January 19, 1865
Response to Serenade, Washington, D.C., February 1, 1865
To John Glenn, February 7, 1865
Reply to Notification Committee, Washington, D.C., March 1, 1865
To Ulysses S. Grant, March 3, 1865
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
To Thurlow Weed, March 15, 1865
Speech to the 140th Indiana Regiment, Washington, D.C., March 17, 1865
Response to Serenade, Washington, D.C., April 10, 1865
Speech on Reconstruction, Washington, D.C., April 11, 1865
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