Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . ew York audi-ence that had come to inspectthis wild and wooly westernerand pass judgement on those often-quoted wordsAbraham Lincoln was on hisway to the presidency. Hewas elected in November andlook the oath of office a fewdays more than a year afterlie spoke at Cooper Union. Bui before 1860 was over, the first southern state to secede (South Carolina) had left the Union, and 39 days after Lincoln entered the when Lincoln made some White House the guns roared good point. He concluded with out at Ft. $umter. That day the ringing words: of
Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . ew York audi-ence that had come to inspectthis wild and wooly westernerand pass judgement on those often-quoted wordsAbraham Lincoln was on hisway to the presidency. Hewas elected in November andlook the oath of office a fewdays more than a year afterlie spoke at Cooper Union. Bui before 1860 was over, the first southern state to secede (South Carolina) had left the Union, and 39 days after Lincoln entered the when Lincoln made some White House the guns roared good point. He concluded with out at Ft. $umter. That day the ringing words: of fire and thunder, Apr. 12, •Let us have faith that 1861, marked the beginning right makes might, and in of opeirhostilities in-the ith, let us, to the end, Civil War. • Philip Van Doren Stern,noted Civil War historian,re-creates thescene of Abra-ham Lincolnsfamous. Coop-er Unionspeech, givenin New YorkCity, Feb. 27,1860. It wasLincolns firstpublic appear-stern a rf c e in theEast -and has been called thespeecirthat made bty. presi-dent.*. Hartford Hart for-1,2 h 2 /60 mesCori , Letters from the People . Lincoln for Presidentis To the Editor of The Times: It was a grand receptionAbraham Lincoln received afterdelivering his speech beforethe Republicans at CooperUnion, 100 years ago. The Tribune called him aman of the people, a champion /of free*labor and prosperous in/,,dustry. At that time Mr. Gree-ley was generous in his editori-al he wrote that Lincolnsspeech was one of the happiestand most convincing politicalarguments ever made and wasaddressed to a crowded andmost appreciating audience. He said that Mr. Lincolnwas one of the nations greatorators, and now he was anavowed candidate and gave hispermission to circulate hisspeech. Then he had his pho-tograph taken in New Yorkand it was circulated across thecountry Certainly Lincoln hadtalked more boldly before, asIn his famous speech to IllinoisRepublicans in 1856. Lincoln made a constitution-al speech, going deeply into th
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