CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

FOREWORD

ABRAHAM LINCOLN Biographical Sketch

COOPER INSTITUTE SPEECH

LINCOLN'S FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS

LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG SPEECH

LINCOLN'S SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS

PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION

STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE FIRST JOINT DEBATE, DELIVERED AT OTTAWA,

LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE FIRST JOINT DEBATE, DELIVERED AT OTTAWA, ILL., AUGUST 21, 1858 Lincoln's Reply (2)

Transcriber's Note

Title: Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln

Including the Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Editor: Lilian Marie Briggs

Language: English

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American History in Literature

Noted Speeches of
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

American History in Literature

NOTED SPEECHES
OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Including the
Lincoln-Douglas Debate

EDITED WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
BY
LILIAN MARIE BRIGGS
Assistant in the New York Public Library

WITH PORTRAITS

New York
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
1911

Copyright, 1911, by
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
New York

THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS
RAHWAY, N. J.