Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . o^ru ~§ ^^. z*~ The Cooper Union MeetingJveline D. Brainerd One of the rare documents of the campaign of 1860 is e. Lincolns Cooper Institute speech annotated, by Charles Nott A and Cephas Brainerd. The Tribune had printed the speech themorning after it was delivered and Horace Greeley had pub-lished it in a cheap pamphlet for distribution. But these two***- young men who had had a gread deal to do with bringij gabout that historic meeting, saw here a chance to prove to theskeptical ^ast that the candidate from Illinois was no ignorantfrontiersman
Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . o^ru ~§ ^^. z*~ The Cooper Union MeetingJveline D. Brainerd One of the rare documents of the campaign of 1860 is e. Lincolns Cooper Institute speech annotated, by Charles Nott A and Cephas Brainerd. The Tribune had printed the speech themorning after it was delivered and Horace Greeley had pub-lished it in a cheap pamphlet for distribution. But these two***- young men who had had a gread deal to do with bringij gabout that historic meeting, saw here a chance to prove to theskeptical ^ast that the candidate from Illinois was no ignorantfrontiersman, no spell binder, but a man of wide reading, exactknowledge, a trined lawyer, a statesman. The story of that meeting and that pamphlet gives a pic-ture of enthusiastic youth accomplishing they knew not what,and shows again how little considered outside his own regionwas the man upon whom, in a twelvemonth, the fate of a nationwas to be laid. The story begin- with this letter from Chariot; )*>)•»- 3. Nott, then a young lawyer, later Judge of the Co
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