Lincoln’s History of the Slavery Issue
October 16, 1854 In order to get a clear understanding of what the Missouri Compromise is, a short history … will perhaps be proper. When we established our independence, we […]
Annual Message to Congress (1861)
Abraham Lincoln, First Annual Message, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202175. Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: In the midst […]
Message to Congress in Special Session
Source: Abraham Lincoln, Special Session Message, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202522. … It might seem at first thought to be of little difference whether […]
Last Public Address
Source: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy Basler, Volume 8 (The Abraham Lincoln Association, 2006), 399–405. https://goo.gl/kdg3Jd. We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of […]
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed (1865)
Thurlow Weed, Esq My dear Sir. Every one likes a compliment. Thank you for yours on my little notification speech, and on the recent Inaugeral [sic] Address. I expect […]
Response to a Serenade
The President said he supposed the passage through Congress of the Constitutional amendment for the abolishment of Slavery throughout the United States, was the occasion to which he was […]
Resolution Submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States
Thirty-Eighth Congress of the United States. A Resolution Submitting to the Legislatures of the several States a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States. Resolved by the Senate […]
Story written for Noah Brooks
On thursday of last week two ladies from Tennessee came before the President asking the release of their husbands held as prisoners of war at Johnson’s Island. They were put […]
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby (1863)
Dear Madam,— I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons […]
Response to a Serenade
It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its own existence, in […]