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Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

by | November 27, 2003 | Educational

Lincoln’s First Inaugural AddressMarch 4, 1861Fellow citizens of the United States: in compliance with a custom as old as the government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly and to take, in your presence, the oath prescribed by the Constitution of...
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

The Emancipation Proclamation

by | November 27, 2003 | Educational

By the President of the United States of America:A PROCLAMATION    Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:    “That on the 1st day of...
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address

by | November 27, 2003 | Educational

Lincoln’s Second Inaugural AddressMarch 4, 1865Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course...
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

by | November 27, 2003 | Educational

Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether that nation, or any nation so...
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

by | November 27, 2003 | Educational

Lincoln’s First Inaugural AddressMarch 4, 1861Fellow citizens of the United States: in compliance with a custom as old as the government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly and to take, in your presence, the oath prescribed by the Constitution of...