Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . ng off to Indi-ana that weekend, and he used the wordHoosier, drawing out the syllables in amost engaging way. LENNY5 LEGACY T TRUST that these few days will be_L provocative, hopeful, and fun, be-cause my father would not have had itany other way, a youngish man saidin his greetings to a well-dressed crowd that filled thefront hall of the governorsmansion in Nashville, Ten-nessee. If he lacked his fatherselectric manner, there was nomistaking the paternal inherit-ance in his hawklike features,cigarette-roughened baritone,and tensely coiled postur
Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . ng off to Indi-ana that weekend, and he used the wordHoosier, drawing out the syllables in amost engaging way. LENNY5 LEGACY T TRUST that these few days will be_L provocative, hopeful, and fun, be-cause my father would not have had itany other way, a youngish man saidin his greetings to a well-dressed crowd that filled thefront hall of the governorsmansion in Nashville, Ten-nessee. If he lacked his fatherselectric manner, there was nomistaking the paternal inherit-ance in his hawklike features,cigarette-roughened baritone,and tensely coiled when he betrayed hisNew York origins by tryingfor a Yall and it came outYou-all his face widenedwith a grin that had the irre-sistible charm of Leonard Bern-stein written all over it. Since the Maestros death,two and a half years ago, agreat many people have beenbusy keeping alive all the re-cordings of Bernstein the con-ductor, all the classical andBroadway scores of Bernsteinthe composer, all the videos ofBernstein the media star, all. WOWS City crowd Actor delivers 1860 talk against slavery expansion By Josh L. Dickey Associated Press NEW YORK - Seven score and fouryears ago, Abraham Lincoln unfolded hisrawboned frame from a wooden chair, sur-veyed the gas-lit throng of gawking NewYorkers at Cooper Unions Great Hall and,in his thin, prairie-tinged tenor, began thespeech that would shape a nation. The facts with which I shall deal thisevening are mainly old and familiar, hesaid, nor is there anything new in the gen-eral use I shall make of them. A humble opening line, considering theeffect that the Feb. 27, 1860, speech wouldhave: Lincolns tightly reasoned argumentagainst the expansion of slavery would elec-trify the unsuspecting crowd, turn the tideof the Republican Partys nomination andvault him to the presidency later that year. On Wednesday night, Lincoln scholarHarold Holzer and actor Sam Waterston (ofNBCs Law and Order) embarked upona modern social experiment of s
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