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For Lincoln and Liberty too! Our David's good sling is unerring, The Slaveocrats' giant he slew; Then shout for the Freedom-preferring— For Lincoln and Liberty too! They'll find what, by felling and mauling, Our rail-maker statesman can do; For the People are everywhere calling For Lincoln and Liberty too. Then up with our banner so glorious,
1986 – (with R. Gerald McMurtry) The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln; 1987 – (with Boritt and Holzer) The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause; 1990 – (with Holzer) The Lincoln Family Album; 1991 – The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (winner of the Pulitzer and Wiley prizes, as mentioned above)
The Gettysburg Address is a famous speech which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War.The speech was made at the formal dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg National Cemetery) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of ...
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address was delivered to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois on January 27, 1838, titled "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In his speech, a 28-year-old Lincoln warned that mobs or people who disrespected U.S. laws and courts could destroy the United States.
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.
Lincoln was chosen to be the Republican candidate in the 1860 presidential election, which he won on November 6 with 180 electoral votes.Between this time and his inauguration on March 4, seven Deep South cotton states—South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas—seceded from the Union.
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties is a 1991 book by American historian Mark E. Neely, Jr., published by Oxford University Press.The book examines President Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus and other rights during the American Civil War.
James G. Birney was the two-time presidential nominee of the Liberty Party, a forerunner of the Free Soil Party.. Though William Lloyd Garrison and most other abolitionists of the 1830s had generally shunned the political system, a small group of abolitionists founded the Liberty Party in 1840.