Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Speech to the Young Men's Lyceum, January 27, 1838

Fragment on Slavery, c. 1854

Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, October 16, 1854

Letter to Joshua Speed, August 24, 1855

Address to the Republican Banquet in Chicago, December 10, 1856 (on public opinion)

Speech on the Dred Scott Decision, June 26, 1857

House Divided Speech, June 16, 1858

Speech at Chicago, July 10, 1858

Letter to Henry L. Pierce & Others, April 6, 1859 (Honors to Jefferson)

Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859

Speech at Cooper Institute, February 27, 1860

Speech at New Haven, Connecticut, March 6, 1860

Fragment on the Constitution and Union, c. January, 1861

Speech at Independence Hall, February 22, 1861

First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

Message to Congress in Special Session, July 4, 1861

Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863

Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863

Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

Speech on Reconstruction, April 11, 1865 (last public address)

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