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Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on Saturday, March 4, 1865, during his second inauguration as President of the United States.At a time when victory over secessionists in the American Civil War was within days and slavery in all of the U.S. was near an end, Lincoln did not speak of happiness, but of sadness.
English: Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. Read by Winston Tharp for LibriVox. Date: 4 March 1865 (text). 20 March 2015 (audio) Source:
Historian Eric Foner has labeled the inauguration "a disaster for Johnson" and his speech "an unfortunate prelude to Lincoln's memorable second inaugural address." At the time Johnson was ridiculed in the press as a "drunken clown," [7] and Johnson's performance is remembered as a mortifying fiasco. [6] Lincoln, for his part, "just looked ...
Pages in category "Inauguration addresses by Abraham Lincoln" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Early on, I landed on my top five: Lincoln’s first and second inaugural addresses, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural address and “Four Freedoms” State of the Union speech and ...
It is certainly true no one could possibly mistake President Trump’s “American carnage” rhetoric eight years ago with the high-minded speechifying of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural ...
The Second Inaugural Address of President Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th President of the United States, was superb. It should be remembered as the "Golden Age of America" speech, but it will ...
Lincoln's second inaugural address at the nearly completed U.S. Capitol on March 4, 1865 On March 4, 1865, Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address . In it, he deemed the war casualties to be God's will.