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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, in vindication of the policy of the framers of the Constitution and the principles of the Republican Party. . .

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04471.03 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Pamphlet signed Date: September 1860 Pagination: 32 p. : Height: 23.5 cm, Width: 15 cm Order a Copy

Title continues "Delivered in the Cooper Institute, Feb. 27th, 1860, issued by the Young Men's Republican Union (659 Broadway, New York) with notes by Charles C. Nott & Cephas Brainerd." Signed by Nott and Brainerd on title page. Printed by George F. Nesbitt & Co., Printers and Stationers, New York. Includes a list of the board members of the Young Men's Republican Union. In the speech, Lincoln addresses the most pressing issue of the day, slavery, and attacks the view put forth by Stephen Douglas and others that slavery was founded by the forefathers of the country. He examines the views of the 39 signers of the Constitution and notes that at least 21of them believed that Congress should control slavery in the U. S. territories, not allow it to expand. Lincoln proposes that the Republican stance of the time was not revolutionary, but similar to the views of the country's forefathers, and therefore should not alarm Southerners, who opposed the Republican agenda.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861
Nott, Charles Cooper, 1827-1916
Brainerd, Cephas, 1831-1910
Nesbitt, George F. & Co

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