Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Salmon Portland Chase (1859)
Hon: S.P. Chase: Dear Sir Please pardon the liberty I take in addressing you, as I now do. It appears by the papers that the late Republican State Convention of […]
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Williamson Durley (1845)
Friend Durley: When I saw you at home, it was agreed that I should write to you and your brother Madison. Until I then saw you, I was not aware […]
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to J. N. Brown (1858)
Hon. J. N. Brown My dear Sir I do not perceive how I can express myself, more plainly, than I have done in the foregoing extracts. In four of them […]
Fragment on Slavery
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, […]
Fragment on Slavery
Suppose it is true, that the negro is inferior to the white, in the gifts of nature; is it not the exact reverse justice that the white should, for that […]
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to the Illinois Gazette (1846): Religious Views
Mr. Ford:— I see in your paper of the 8th inst. a communication in relation to myself, of which it is perhaps expected of me to take some notice. Shortly […]
Speech in Reply to Douglas at Springfield, Illinois
Fellow-citizens: Another election which is deemed an important one is approaching, and, as I suppose, the Republican party will without much difficulty elect their State ticket. But in regard to […]
Response to Serenade
MY FRIENDS: I am informed that you have assembled here this afternoon under the impression that I had made an appointment to speak at this time. This is a […]
Reply to Notification Committee
Having served four years in the depths of a great, and yet unended national peril, I can view this call to a second term, in nowise more flatteringly to […]
Eulogy of Henry Clay
On the fourth day of July, 1776, the people of a few feeble and oppressed colonies of Great Britain, inhabiting a portion of the Atlantic coast of North America, publicly […]