Selections from the letters, speeches, and state papers of Abraham Lincoln
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- Selections from the letters, speeches, and state papers of Abraham Lincoln
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- 1911
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Selections from the letters, speeches, and state papers of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Year: 1911
Introduction / Ida M. Tarbell -- Views on money-loaning, education, and ;lawmaking -- Political views in 1836 -- First public protest against slavery -- Letter to Williamson Durley -- Letter to William H. Herndon, his law partner, reproving his for suspicion of others -- Reflections on seeing Niagara Falls (1848) -- Notes on the practice of law (1850) -- Letter to John D. Johnson (January 2, 1851) -- Letter to John D. Johnson (November 4, 1851) -- Hope, the inspiration of labor -- Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, right of self-government after the defeat of 1856 -- "A house divided against itself" -- Equality of white and black races -- Republican and Democratic principles compared -- Lincoln's autobiography -- Slavery as the fathers viewed it -- Farewell speech to his friends in Springfield -- The perpetuity of the Union -- Lincoln's reply to Secretary Seward's offer to become the Head of the Administration -- On the relation of labor and capital -- Message to Congress recommending Compensated Emancipation -- Letter to Horace Greeley -- Sabbath observance -- Extract from Annual Message -- Emancipation Proclamation -- Letter to General Joseph Hooker -- Proclamation for a National