Additional Letters and Speeches

 

Speech in the House of Representatives on General Taylor and the Veto, 1848 (1848)

 

Speech on Declaration of War on Mexico, 1848 (January 12, 1848)

 

Fragment on Slavery (July 1, 1854)

 

Speech at Peoria, Illinois October 16, 1854 (October 16, 1854)

 

Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan (August 27, 1856)

 

Letter to Lyman Trumbull (December 28, 1857)

 

“A House Divided”: Speech at Springfield, IL (June 16, 1858) 

 

First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois (August 21, 1858) - Taken from Lincoln’s Scrapbook

 

Lincoln Scrapbook - Political Debates between Lincoln and Douglas, 1858 (October 13, 1858)

 

Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (September 30, 1859)

 

Address at Independence Hall (February 22, 1861)

 

Appeal to Border State Representatives to Favor Compensated Emancipation (July 12, 1862)

 

Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)

 

Letter to John Gilmer (December 15, 1860)

 

Letter to Alexander H. Stephens (December 22, 1860)

 

Farewell Address (February 11, 1861)

 

Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (March 13, 1862) with introduction by Sec. Seward 

 

Proclamation Revoking General Hunters (May 9, 1862)

 

Letter to Horace Greeley (August 22, 1862)

 

Letter to General John McClernand (January 8, 1863)

 

Letter to Joseph Hooker (January 26, 1863)

 

Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day (March 30, 1863)

 

Letter to Erastus Corning and Others (June 12, 1863) 

 

Letter to General Ulysses S. Grant (July 13, 1863)

 

Letter to Nathaniel P. Banks (August 5, 1863) 

 

Letter to James C. Conkling (August 26, 1863)

 

Proclamation of Thanksgiving (October 3, 1863)

 

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (December 8, 1863)

 

Message to Congress, December 8, 1863 (December 8, 1863)

 

Letter to Governor Michael Hahn (March 13, 1864)

 

Letter to Albert G. Hodges (April 4, 1864)

 

Reply to Committee Notifying Lincoln of his Re-nomination, June 1864 (June 1864)

 

Announcement Concerning Terms of Peace (July 18, 1864)

 

Letter to William T. Sherman (August 19, 1864)

 

Letter to Mrs. Bixby (November 21, 1864) 

 

Instructions to Secretary of State William H. Seward (January 18, 1865)

 

Response to a Serenade (February 1, 1865)

 

Letter to Thurlow Weed (March 15, 1865)

 

Unsigned Memorandum Given to J.A. Campbell, April 5, 1865 (April 5, 1865) 

 

Last Public Address (April 11, 1865)

 

Compilation courtesy of Cindy Rich, Project Director, EIU Teaching with Primary Sources