Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . Sunday Standard-Times Lew Bedford, Mass. 2/7/o0 U-o/i-iAJ <Usit^<f~iJ t-Z^Cd^^. ON THE EVENING OF MONDAY, FEB. 27, 1860, a lanky, gaunt man in ill-fitting clothes, a prairie lawyer from Illinois, stood up to addressan audience of sophisticated New Yorkers in the Great Hall at Cooper Union. Before he spoke, he was an obscure Western politician. After hespoke, that apathetic New York audience was cheering his stand against the extension of slavery wildly and Abraham Lincoln had won thesupport that would bring him the Republican nomination for
Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . Sunday Standard-Times Lew Bedford, Mass. 2/7/o0 U-o/i-iAJ <Usit^<f~iJ t-Z^Cd^^. ON THE EVENING OF MONDAY, FEB. 27, 1860, a lanky, gaunt man in ill-fitting clothes, a prairie lawyer from Illinois, stood up to addressan audience of sophisticated New Yorkers in the Great Hall at Cooper Union. Before he spoke, he was an obscure Western politician. After hespoke, that apathetic New York audience was cheering his stand against the extension of slavery wildly and Abraham Lincoln had won thesupport that would bring him the Republican nomination for President just two months and 23 days later. That epochal moment in Lincolnslife is captured in a splendid new book, Abraham Lincoln Goes to New York, by Andrew A. Freeman, published by Coward-McCann. Re-produced here today are some of the illustrations from the book. Above is a view of Broadway and Park Place with the Astor House and thecolumns of St. Pauls Church on the right, Barnums Museum on the left, all as Lincoln saw them. Not far from here were the offices of thepowerful New York newspapers including Horace Greeleys T
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