Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . Solo at Cooper Union To the Editor: Richard Shepards news articleabout the landmarks of New YorkCity (Dec. 10) was useful and inform-ative, but I must point out one seriouserror: Cooper Union was not theplace where Lincoln and Douglasdebated. Senator Stephen A. Douglas andAbraham Lincoln, then a senatorialcandidate, engaged in their famousseries of debates in the state ofIllinois during the political campaignof 1858. Lincoln won the popular vote,but Douglas was returned to the Sen-ate — this in the days before the 17th Amendment, when the state le
Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . Solo at Cooper Union To the Editor: Richard Shepards news articleabout the landmarks of New YorkCity (Dec. 10) was useful and inform-ative, but I must point out one seriouserror: Cooper Union was not theplace where Lincoln and Douglasdebated. Senator Stephen A. Douglas andAbraham Lincoln, then a senatorialcandidate, engaged in their famousseries of debates in the state ofIllinois during the political campaignof 1858. Lincoln won the popular vote,but Douglas was returned to the Sen-ate — this in the days before the 17th Amendment, when the state legisla-tures were still electing senators. Lincolns famous Cooper Union ad-dress (Let us have faith thatright makes might ...) was deliv-ered on Feb. 27, 1860, and receivedfront-page attention in the majorNew York newspapers, including TheNew York Times. Lincoln afterward attributed hisbeing nominated for the Presidencythat year to this Cooper Union speechand to the Mathew Brady photographtaken that same day. Marie R. RenoNewYork,,1982. THE TALK OF THE TOWN A DAY WITH LINCOLN A BRAHAM LINCOLN was six feet four,t-\ Bill Clinton is six feet Jl. Why, then, was the lectern inthe Great Hall of the Cooper Union,from which Mr. Lincoln made his cel-ebrated Right makes might speech, in1860, considered too low for our currentPresident to speak from? Whatever thereason, on the evening before his arrivalat the Hall, last Wednesday afternoon, todeliver what had been billed as a majorPresidential speech, a shim was insertedunder the base of the lectern to raise it afew inches. During the speech, we wereinvited to reflect further on the Presidentsanatomy: Mr. Clinton revealed that theNashville shoe company of Johnston &Murphy, observing a long tradition ofpresenting made-to-measure shoes tonew Presidents, had written him that hiswere the largest Presidential feet sinceWoodrow Wilsons. It was only on the Friday beforehandthat the White House had asked thepresident of the Cooper U
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