Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Lincoln-Douglas Debate

by Abraham Lincoln

CONTENTS

	PAGE
Biographical Sketch—Lincoln	[ix]
Cooper Institute Speech	[1]
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address	[35]
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Speech	[51]
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address	[53]
Proclamation of Emancipation	[57]
Biographical Sketch—Douglas	[61]
Lincoln-Douglas Debate:
Opening Speech	[63]
Lincoln’s Reply	[82]

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Abraham Lincoln	[Frontispiece]
Stephen A. Douglas	Facing page [62]

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FOREWORD

This series, American History in Literature, will include only the best-known American speeches,—those which commemorate the most important events in the history of our country.