. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . nteresting point about the Columbus address is thatin it appears the germ of the Cooper Institute speech deliv-ered five months later in New York City. Lincoln made so deep an impression in Ohio by hisspeeches that the State Republican Committee asked per-mission to publish them together with the Lincoln-DouglasDebates as campaign documents in the presidential electionof the nex
. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . nteresting point about the Columbus address is thatin it appears the germ of the Cooper Institute speech deliv-ered five months later in New York City. Lincoln made so deep an impression in Ohio by hisspeeches that the State Republican Committee asked per-mission to publish them together with the Lincoln-DouglasDebates as campaign documents in the presidential electionof the next year. In December he yielded to the persuasion of his Kansaspolitical friends and delivered five lectures in that State,only fragments of which have been preserved. Unquestionably the most effective piece of work he didthat winter was the address at Cooper Institute, New York,on February 27. He had received an invitation in the fallof 1859 to lecture at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. To hisfriends it was evident that he was greatly pleased by thecompliment, but that he feared that he was not equal toan Eastern audience. After some hesitation he accepted,provided they would take a political speech if he could find. LINCOLN IN FEBRUARY, 1860, AT THE TIME OF THE COOPER INSTITUTE SPEECH. From photograph by Brady. The debate with Douglas in 1858 had given Lincoln anational reputation, and the following year he received many invitations to lecture. Onecame from a young mens Republican club in New York. Lincoln consented, and in Feb-ruary, 186<J (about three m^onths before his nomination for the presidency), delivered what isknown, from the hall in which it was dehvered, as the Cooper Institute speech. While inNew York he was taken by the committee of entertainment to Bradys gallery, and sat forthe portrait reproduced above. It was a frequent remark with Lincoln that this portrait andthe Cooper Institute speech made him President. THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES 327 time to get up no oth
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