Abraham Lincoln
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Lincoln, Abraham) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: A Selection of Passages From His Speeches and Letters With Brief Comments The selections from Abraham Lincoln´s speeches and letters herein given, with the exception of a single brief passage, are taken from the period following his election as President of the United States, when the days of his career as a great public debater were over. After his election to the presidency Mr. Lincoln made no argumentative speeches, although almost every public utterance is a heartfelt plea for the ends for which he was struggling. To appreciate his power and adroitness as a controversialist one must go back to the period preceding his nomination - the years of his active work in the West as an opponent of the extension of slavery. It is difficult to make extracts from these speeches for the reason that every part is closely bound together by logical arrangement, and the speeches to be appreciated must be studied in the light of the questions with which they deal. They are therefore omitted in preference for selections from his words when he was actually bearing the nation´s burden in the midst of the stupendous Civil War. Lincoln´s national prominence dates from 1854. At that time he came prominently before the country as an uncompromising opponent of the further extension of slavery to Territories of the United States, particularly the region known as the Nebraska and Kansas Territories. Lincoln was at that time a man of 45; a successful lawyer with a reputation throughout the bounds of his State, Illinois; but for the past five years he had taken no part in political life. In 1820 the famous agreement made in Congress, known as the Missouri Compromise, bound both parties to agree that slavery should not extend northward of the parallel of 36° 30´. Under this agreement the slavery question was held in abeyance for thirty years, but in 1850 it became the central political issue of America and continued so until the Civil War. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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