Identifier: completeworksof03linc (find matches)
Title: Complete works of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901, ed Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint ed Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909 Fish, Daniel, 1848-1924
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : F.D. Tandy Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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the Union cannot exist divided into free andslave States. If it cannot endure thus divided,then he must strive to make them all free or allslave, which will inevitably bring about a dis-solution of the Union. Gentlemen, I am told that my time is out,and I am obliged to stop. Letter to J. O. Cunningham Ottawa, August 22, 1858. My Dear Sir: Yours of the i8th, signed assecretary of the Republican club, is received.In the matter of making speeches I am a gooddeal pressed by invitations from almost all quar-ters, and while I hope to be at Urbana sometime during the canvass, I cannot yet say when.Can you not see me at Monticello on the 6thof September? Douglas and I, for the first time this canvass,crossed swords here yesterday; the fire flewsome, and I am glad to know I am yet alive.There was a vast concourse of people—morethan could get near enough to hear.Yours as ever, A. Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln Reproduced from the Original Photograph byBradyy noif in the Collection of Robert Coster.
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(858) Speech at Freeport 271 Second Joint Debate at Freeport, Illinois,August 27, 1858 Mr. Lincolns Opening Speech. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: OnSaturday last, Judge Douglas and my-self first met in public discussion. Hespoke one hour, I an hour and a half, and hereplied for half an hour. The order is nowreversed. I am to speak an hour, he an hourand a half, and then I am to reply for halfan hour. I propose to devote myself dur-ing the first hour to the scope of what wasbrought within the range of his half-hourspeech at Ottawa. Of course there was broughtwithin the scope of that half-hours speech some-thing of his own opening speech. In the courseof that opening argument Judge Douglas pro-posed to me seven distinct interrogatories. Inmy speech of an hour and a half, I attended tosome other parts of his speech, and incidentally,as I thought, answered one of the interroga-tories then. I then distinctly intimated to himthat I would answer the rest of his interrogator-ies on condition only tha

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