Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 48364-h.htm or 48364-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48364/48364-h/48364-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48364/48364-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/notedspeechesofa00linc American History in Literature NOTED SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN [Illustration: ABRAHAM LINCOLN] American History in Literature NOTED SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Including the Lincoln-Douglas Debate Edited with Biographical Sketches by LILIAN MARIE BRIGGS Assistant in the New York Public Library With Portraits New York Moffat, Yard and Company 1911 Copyright, 1911, by Moffat, Yard and Company New York The Quinn & Boden Co. Press Rahway, N. J. CONTENTS PAGE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH--LINCOLN ix COOPER INSTITUTE SPEECH 1 LINCOLN’S FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS 35 LINCOLN’S GETTYSBURG SPEECH 51 LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS 53 PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION 57 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH--DOUGLAS 61 LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE: _Opening Speech_ 63 _Lincoln’s Reply_ 82 ILLUSTRATIONS ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Frontispiece_ STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS Facing page 62 FOREWORD This series, American History in Literature, will include only the best-known American speeches,--those which commemorate the most important events in the history of our country. The biographical sketches have been included for the convenience of the student and reader, and for the schoolboys and girls, who are constantly seeking concise accounts of the lives of our great Americans. This present volume, the first of the series, gives to the student and reader Abraham Lincoln’s most noted speeches in compact form, making a chronological anthology. L. M. B. ABRAHAM LINCOLN BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH In a little log-cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky, on the 12th of February, 1809, was born a future President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.