THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES 7.- /3 B. 0. BAKE* LAWYER tAilAS, TEXAS SELECTIONS FROM LINCOLN'S SPEECHES AND LETTERS ARRANGED FOR LEARNERS OF MUNSON PHONOGRAPHY BY BERTHA CROCKER S. S. PACKARD, PUBLISHER NEW YORK The Packard Series of Munson Phonography Practical Phonography A complete text-book of Munson phon- ography ; logical, simple, and practical, 283 pages, 12mo, cloth, prepaid, . . $1.OO Phonographic Exercise Book Containing 2500 words arid phrases in long-hand, in the order in which they occur in the text-book, with space for phonographic outlines and teachers' corrections, postpaid, 30 How to Make a Living Reading book in Munson phonography, embodying many commercial words and phrases, beautifully engraved, 1-tO pages, 12mo, cloth, postpaid, . . . .75 Key to above, with number of words marked, especially adapted to class dictation, 78 pages .25 Selections from Lincoln's Speeches and Letters in engraved Munson Phonography, 128 pages, 12mo, cloth, postpaid, . . .75 Key to above, handsomely bound in cloth, with engraved portrait of Lincoln, 167 pages .50 COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY PACKARD COMMERCIAL SCHOOL COMPANY PUBLISHER'S NOTE This reading book is a transcription of "Selections from Lincoln's Speeches and Letters," edited by Bliss Perry and published by Doubleday, Page & Company, whose courtesy in permitting us to use the matter we gratefully acknowl- edge. It has been chosen because of the simplicity of the language and the intrinsic interest and inspiration it con- tains for American youth. As a text-book it is planned to follow How TO MAKE A LIVING as a reader. The short- hand script is in accordance with the principles of PRACTICAL PHONOGRAPHY, the phrasing being the simple, natural, and free phrasing of the practical stenographer, with no thought of producing problems for the rupil to solve. 448301 "He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first Ameri- can." LOWELL, Commemoration Ode. CONTENTS PAGE Editor's Introduction 9 Speeches Selected The Whigs and the Mexican War 13 Notes for a Law Lecture 16 Fragment on Slavery 19 The Dred Scott Decision and the Declaration of Independence 21 Springfield Speech 28 Cooper Union Speech 37 Farewell at Springfield 59 Speech in Independence Hall, Philadelphia 60 First Inaugural Address 62 Emancipation Proclamaticn 73 Gettysburg Address 76 Speech to 166th Ohio Regiment 78 Response to a Serenade 79 Reply to Committee on Electoral Count 81 Second Inaugural Address 82 Lincoln's Lost Speech 99 Letters To McClellan 85 To Seward 86 To Greeley 88 To tiie Workingmen of Manchester 90 To Hooker 92 To Burnside 94 To Edward Everett 95 To Grant 96 To Mrs. Bixby 97 To Thurlow Weed . 98 B. 0. BAK . EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION "It is not too much to say of him [Lincoln] that }ie is among the greatest masters of prose ever produced by the English race." The (London) Spectator. 10 ABRAHAM LINCOLN ^ ^ --( ^^ V ^--; ... 9-Jt_l--. _-\. -xrr -J X ^r.j^..A.?..r..._J. .1 4sn | V < !^'-^ >-^ X _ ... ..l..Jti_ S ) ^ c ^ ( \ 1 r INTRODUCTION 11 e .EL s^. 12 ABRAHAM LINCOLN V- Y JU \ n BLISS PERRY THE WHIGS AND THE MEXICAN WAR July 27, 1848 [An extract from a speech delivered in the House of Representatives while Lincoln was a Congressman from Illinois. The speech was in support of General Taylor, the Whig candidate for the Presidency. Lincoln had opposed President Folk's declaration of war against Mexico, had introduced resolutions of inquiry on that subject, and made a strong speech on January 12, 1848, explaining his own attitude. The speech of July 27 was full of wit, at times more caustic than refined. The extract here presented sums up clearly Lincoln's views as to the Mexican War, and is a good example of his best parliamentary style at' this stage of his career.] 14 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .....^rT....^...^. i == V ^- L !\ ^ \ % 1_ . "* ' \ ^. / ^ ^ 1 1 } S ^^-7-^---^----- ^ta^^JLJSL^oulgaaC ^ L-" s -Jr^ x 4. .S A ^^ i \ ' J=^.r^ THE WHIGS AND THE MEXICAN WAR 15 NOTES FOR A LAW LECTURE July 1, 1860 [These notes show Lincoln's power of straightforward statement and his good sense. They are of additional interest as indicating his attitude toward professional success.] NOTES FOR A LAW LECTURE 17 \ ..... ..... / o ^ Va i ' V .:...sC..-&*^===.^.. f . \-_-~ -O S-. -x^j- J f S... X r ^ 18 ABRAHAM LINCOLN \ __L-- V --X- ^-i " "~~o~p-~" x . /* ^P U> . :\ ^ ..X e. . T \ FRAGMENT ON SLAVERY July 1, 1854 [From early manhood Lincoln's sympathies had been strongly enlisted on behalf of the slaves. The contrast between slave labor and free labor has never been stated more tersely and vividly than here. The sentence, "Twenty-five years ago I was a hired laborer," should be noted.] 19 20 ABRAHAM LINCOLN 9 \ * P / --r-^crv THE DRED SCOTT DECISION AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE June 26, 1857 [This is an extract from a speech delivered at Springfield, 111. It was intended as a reply to a speech of Stephen A. Douglas two weeks earlier upon the subject of slavery in the Territories. Douglas was the author of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, passed in 1854, which gave the Territories the right to decide whether they would have slavery. The Dred Scott decision was published by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1857, and was to the effect that a slave or the descendant of a slave could not be a citi- zen of the United States or have any standing in the Federal courts. Lincoln contrasts the spirit of this decision with that of the Declaration of Independence, with a skill and force that will be apparent to every reader. He repeated the substance of the argu- ment over and over again in his joint debates with Douglas in the following year.] 22 ABRAHAM LINCOLN r > -> iS 4- .,.- U..: = - A*^. --./.. -ilo-. THE DRED SCOTT DECISION 25 . > ABRAHAM LINCOLN -\- v. ; \ t -\---f-f- -^ V,, '-^' , 'L-^ L.-I -------- .-.--I X , -------- A ---- L f..x. 21z: " - SPRINGFIELD SPEECH 35 | (J.. C 'ii~ ABRAHAM LINCOLN \ \ v \ . f .x ADDRESS AT COOPER INSTITUTE February 27, 1860 [This was Lincoln's first appearance before an Eastern audience. The speech cost him a great deal of labor, and was most heartily received. See Morse's "Abraham Lincoln," I, 153-156.] 37 448301 38 ABRAHAM LINCOLN - ... .. < ' ^v.--^>..-V-X :...(. ..vl r V-V-* ADDRESS AT COOPER INSTITUTE y. ^ v. -if . .c. 4U ABRAHAM LINCOLN u ADDRESS AT COOPER INSTITUTE 41 -,^ .,. .. ABRAHAM LINCOLN ^.^.V^^.Ve J _( C._^..\ -7/7^ LJ.. ..-- jLffi-) 3. . .._, J.JL+*. .-..-. &.'.. }- .^-^ ^ Vj-ze. C - . .A3..XT1 Li. = v- X ADDRESS AT COOPER INSTITUTE 43 rv f I . ^n / -o I 44 ABRAHAM LINCOLN I x /"^\ ) "~ ^ / V i L .S .^O- --V^r L ^ _^-_ _ _ _o. / J, _ ADDRESS AT COOPER INSTITUTE 45 ;--^-^-^--|-v^--T ^, N ^<^ ^ L: ..., 46 ABRAHAM LINCOLN **.*, ADDRESS AT COOPER INSTITUTE 47 -44-^- (C\ /\ 11 IVrf \ . -V . A - \x_ ABRAHAM LINCOLN v ( /_ . - ^SA i r/ ...__ 7 ""*"' f 'N s 3 "7V xiT \ .v- U ( ""T" ^^> <\ k^r: ^u^ o x _. x " * ^ T"\ . _ ,_ _ _^_ _^ J . t ^^ '- ADDRESS AT COOPER INSTITUTE 49 \ v \ V f? Ly ABRAHAM LINCOLN x iL^^\_.Li^...^-^- ^o \ /^~ 0. / \ v * /- <^f- \ , JL, . . >\ U I / ^-(-----^ V-- -O^/- ^.T .-V T o ../ .. .. e , ADDRESS AT COOPER INSTITUTE X 52 ABRAHAM LINCOLN u-t-~-^- v 'Cf " ) N ,.:..2\. , vf ~..^.^ v .Ys,. rv .(.,.- tf^X J ~~ \~>^~~ ""~J^S^ L-LAl, \ TJ-W ADDRESS AT COOPER INSTITUTE X - r , v / _____ - l -j y^TTT-.-. ^--.\l_*-* .^..-r..-./:.\ ^.^.C^K. \ f (^ I ( I LdCJl \ = X c^ Ai^lse -Atrr.j-..' j. .^rT i/kl JL_^ ^...../..^ -s- . . 58 ABRAHAM LINCOLN - * FAREWELL AT SPRINGFIELD February 11, 1861 [These words, to which subsequent events have given an added note of solemnity, were spoken to a vast audience of Lincoln's fellow-citizens upon the rainy February day when he left Springfield for Washington to assume the duties of the Presidency.] SPEECH IN INDEPENDENCE HALL, PHILADELPHIA February 22, 1861 [During the journey to Washington Lincoln made many brief addresses. The fol- lowing, spoken in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, upon Washington's Birthday, is one of the most felicitous, and the time and place of its delivery give it additional interest.] 61 -K. J J FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS March 4, 1861 ["Mr. Lincoln was simply introduced by Senator Baker, of Oregon, and delivered his inaugural address. His voice had great carrying capacity, and the vast crowd heard with ease a speech of which every sentence was fraught with an importance and scru- tinized with an anxiety far beyond that of any other speech ever delivered in the United States. . . . The inaugural address was simple, earnest, and direct, unincum- bered by that rhetorical ornamentation which the American people have always admired as the highest form of eloquence. Those Northerners who had expected magniloquent periods and exaggerated outbursts of patriotism were disappointed, and as they listened in vain for the scream of the eagle, many grumbled at the absence of what they con- ceived to be farce. Yet the general feeling was of satisfaction, which grew as the address was more thoroughly studied." Morse's "Abraham Lincoln."] p =>-^ iX-.J ___X-_ t ^ ^ "^ ...^.. x ^'..L. cr x...l.\.c,... ..^..LA.-^V. /^ cr .^..v\o..lr...^..^L^: FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS 2. :^.\:.L *Zru / ABRAHAM LINCOLN O ' __ _ y Q__ r \A **"QryJF'isz]r \S -' ^_^| o y..< v x.^..^juA.2!^ y .-~** ABRAHAM LINCOLN FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS r7 V) i-fxr - ^ ..V... V -- 70 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ^JL./JL ^= vf- .w X . - n FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS 71 L "C _. .j :.j 1^.1 .V. \x 72 ABRAHAM LINCOLN ^ 7" .J / p .4../..^r..^. .-n EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 75 \ p e GETTYSBURG ADDRESS November 19, 1863 [The national military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa., was dedicated with solemn cer- emonies on November 19, 1863, as a memorial of the three days' battle fought in the previous July, which proved to be the turning-point of the Civil War. The formal oration of the day was pronounced by Edward Everett, but the President was asked to add a word. His biographer, Mr. J. G. Nicolay, has given an interesting account of the preparation of the address. (Century Magazine, Vol. XLVII) It was delivered without any effort at oratorical effect ; but its perfection of feeling and of phrase was instantly and universally recognized. To have composed the Gettysburg address is proof enough, were there no other, of Lincoln's place among the masters of English speech. His letter to Edward Everett acknowledging the latter*s praise, and compli- menting Everett in turn, is included in this volume of selections.] l:r\ K I ^X^^l. . J-X^^O GETTYSBURG ADDRESS 77 .^..| ^:._y;L~.^Cj^-:2. ' V i .. SPEECH TO 166 OHIO REGIMENT August 22, 1864 "v; A i ,j< ..ic^t / e ^L^i>^ .. , . ..^?. 78 RESPONSE TO SERENADE November 10, 1864 [This little speech was called forth by the news of Lincoln's re-election as President.] .QiJ^^SC.. V_ ...^.../ . ( V u 79 so ABRAHAM LINCOLN VI REPLY TO COMMITTEE ON THE ELECTORAL COUNT February 9, 1865 [Lincoln had been renominated for the Presidency by the Republican Convention which met in Baltimore on June 7, 1864, and was elected on November 8 by a plurality of nearly half a million in the popular vote. In the Electoral College he had 212 votes to 21 for McClellan.] -V % -X T ^ y^f jr 81 SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS March 4, 1865 ["The 'Second Inaugural' a written composition, though read to the citizens from the steps of the Capitol well illustrates our words. Mr. Lincoln had to tell his countrymen that, after a four years' struggle, the war was practically ended. The four years' agony, the passion of love which he felt for his country, his joy in her salvation, his sense of tenderness for those who fell, of pity mixed with sternness for the men who had deluged the land with blood all the thoughts these feelings inspired were be- hind Lincoln pressing for expression. A writer of less power would have been over- whelmed. Lincoln remained master of the emotional and intellectual situation. In three or four hundred words that burn with the heat of their compression, he tells the history of the war and reads its lesson. No nobler thoughts were ever conceived. No man ever found words more adequate to his desire. Here is the whole tale of the nation's shame and misery, of her heroic struggles to free herself therefrom, and of her victory. Had Lincoln written a hundred times as much more, he would not- have said more fully what he desired to say. Every thought receives its complete expression, and there is no word employed which does not directly and manifestly contribute to the de- velopment of the central thought." The (London) Spectator, May 2, 1891. Compare also Lincoln's letter to Thurlow Weed at the close of this volume of selections.] SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS 83 .v^... V^ | 7 _ V 4..^. ^ ^-..-..^^.-X.. v>. *" V^^ ,..,.......*.. -,-X \/\ ^ L ^ n- ^ i j ^_ j x jAjIg^=^4^s^^ "\ 84 ABRAHAM LINCOLN O r n cJ TO McCLELLAN February 3, 1862 [General McClellan had succeeded General Scott on November 1, 1831, as Com- mander-in-Chief (under the President) of all the armies of the United States. On January 31, 1862, the President had issued his "Special War Order No. 1," directing a forward movement of the Army of the Potomac. This order conflicted with plans which McClellan had formed,, and he remonstrated. Lincoln's reply is a good illustra- tion of his power of compact statement, as well as his mastery of the military situation.] X. TO SEWARD June 28, 1862 [This letter was written to W. H. Seward, the Secretary of State, shortly after the Union victories in Kentucky and Tennessee and upon the Mississippi River, in the spring of 1862.] K&.^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^adCj.2^1-tji r .1 -^L...^.x:...Jx..L.y...,.^. i ^v> \ '* -^ ' ~ ' ** "^ ^o ^ -t"-- TO SEWARD 87 *-=J-f _ x r vj r ^ ' TO GREELEY August 22, 1862 [Horace Greeley, the famous editor of the New York Tribune, though an ardent opponent of slavery, was a constant critic of Lincoln's policy, and indeed opposed his renomination for the Presidency. His erratic editorials concerning the Administration were a continual source of anxiety to Lincoln.] TO GREELEY \ \ TO THE WORKINGMEN OF MANCHESTER January 19, 1863 [The blockade of Confederate ports during the war was naturally a severe blow to the English manufacturing centres like Manchester, which had depended upon the Southern States for their supply of cotton. But the working classes of England, in marked contrast with the upper classes, displayed strong Union sympathies throughout the struggle. An address from the Manchester workingmen called forth this admir- able reply from the President.] N ^ ^ d. ^ T^< TO THE WORKINGMEN OF MANCHESTER 91 . U ..... ... I C 1 ISS^A-- '"* t - J^x \ TO HOOKER January 26, 1863 [This letter to General Joseph Hooker, appointing him the successor to General Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac, is one of Lincoln's most char- acteristic utterances frank, kind, and gravely ironical. Notice the phrase, "I will risk the dictatorship."] TO HOOKER 93 . ...J.J.* ?l..^J^.._V-^^_.Ch. \ I . v^ v' -X.yi^Trs.x. TO BURNSIDE July 27, 1863 [This telegram is noticeable for its brief but comprehensive description of General Jrant] TO EDWARD EVERETT November 20, 1863 [See the note prefixed to Lincoln's Gettysburg address.] 95 TO GRANT April 30, 1864 [The spring campaign of 1864 marked "the beginning of the end" of the Rebellion. This letter is one of many proofs of Lincoln's absolute confidence in Grant's generalship,] L .3i..f^?.J,. TO MRS. BIXBY November 21, 1864 97 TO THURLOW WEED March 15, 1865 [This most interesting letter, written a month before Lincoln's assassination, should be read in connection with the second inaugural address.] LINCOLN'S LOST SPEECH"* ' Copyright, 1896, by Sarah A. Whitney. 99 100 ABRAHAM LINCOLN /* .C ^ f. ^ C J. \ 'r ! ^ -. ..... . ... v ..... .. ; Y 'i ^^ " 'LINCOLN'S LOST SPEECH" 101 (, ,-fc . > rt >i . j .. - ( i i xir ( 3. X*" v "S rcZJC-.? ?- i! hs..y CT_V f**-. X.- - - ...^v^. L..^.. 1.,..^. SJ^^S^I 145. ..^>.x^p.!>...^.r^..^.C-..\.,. \"" = " LINCOLN'S LOST SPEECH' 103 -<2Jf- ...(... 1. 104 ABRAHAM LINCOLN . LINCOLN'S LOST SPEECH" 105 ^?..(.- / -\ .^.^.-. v ^^...e. r ^.^_.^..., '^." 4-L^S^^^X.^.^ V-C-V- - / ^rAr^ 1 > ^ N ~" / ^ r ^.f^^...Ji t 106 ABRAHAM LINCOLN MR. LINCOLN'S SPEECH L r\ ^^ ^ \ ^ o \ / /. -W- ---.. .V ..XTl-.TT^.-VX.tL.. -vi--^- L LINCOLN'S LOST SPEECH" ^A.-..-J-.. *><: : j ^ ! Cx r j / u^ k T" TV TfSsT"^ P j x- ' s-^ P^- ^ J... .:. C.-^.-v- , U,... x- .:.:- -t-.-.c^-.- r- .......... - ---- oJ. 108 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .!^..-x--^r^---X-x....^..V^-^ ^ .~^.-^.. ^-y r = ^ \ I =-0 / J \F*xf J ^> f l..i~_^rz^--L. \ .\ / LINCOLN'S LOST SPEECH" i09 ^Statutes of Kansas, 1855, Chapter 151, Section 12. If any free person, by speaking or b;, writing, assert or maintain that persons have not the right to hold slaves in this Territory, or shall introduce into this Territory, print, publish, write, circulate .... any book, paper, magazine, pamph- let, or circular containing any denial of the right of persons to hold slaves in this Territory, such person shall be deemed guilty of felony, and punished by imprisonment at hard labor for a term of not less than two years. Sec. 13. No person who is conscientiously opposed to holding slaves, or who does not admit the right to hold slaves in this Territory, shall sit as a juror on the trial of any prosecution for any viola- tion of any sections of this Act. 110 ABRAHAM LINCOLN ..^^\^^..^ 'LINCOLN'S LOST SPEECH \ / J ^^"" ^ I fv 112 ABRAHAM LINCOLN k^ ~\^~ 'LINCOLN'S LOST SPEECH" 113 X.v~ -r f . . J i_Lu_ V 1^-5 114 ABRAHAM LINCOLN "LINCOLN'S LOST SPEECH" 115 f A.._.~iMu . . - \ 116 ABRAHAM LINCOLN I ( V n ---\.---f-...ti..--~/--./? 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