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    <namePart>Burton, Orville Vernon</namePart>
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    <publisher>Hill and Wang</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <abstract>Presents selections of speeches, public and private correspondence, and personal notations by Abraham Lincoln.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Introduction 1. To the People of Sangamo County₄: March 9, 1832 --
2. Lyceum Speech at Springfield, Illinois: January 27, 1838 --
3. Handbill to the Voters of the Seventh Congressional District: July 31, 1846 --
4. Speech at Peoria, Illinois, on the Kansas-Nebraska Act: October 16, 1854 --
5. Letter to Joshua Speed, Springfield, Illinois: August 24, 1855 --
6. Notes for a Law Lecture: Undated fragment, probably 1859 --
7. A House Divided₄ Speech at Springfield, Illinois: June 16, 1858 --
8. Speech at Chicago, Illinois: July 10, 1858 --
9. Lincoln-Douglas Debates: Autumn 1858 --
10. Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others: April 6, 1859 11 --
Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society: September 30, 1859 12. Speech at Cooper Union, New York City: February 27, 1860 --
13. Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: February 22, 1861 --
14. First Inaugural Address: March 4, 1861 --
15. Message to Congress in Special Session: July 4, 1861 --
16. Annual Message to Congress: December 3, 1861 --
17. Letter to Horace Greeley: August 22, 1862 --
18. Letter to Fanny McCullough: December 23, 1862 --
19. Emancipation Proclamation: January 1, 1863 --
20. Letter to Erastus Corning and Others: June 12, 1863 --
21. Order of Retaliation: July 30, 1863 --
22. Letter to Nathaniel P. Banks (Louisiana) on Reconstruction: August 5, 1863 --
23. Letter to James C. Conkling on Emancipation: August 26, 1863 --
24. Gettysburg Address: November 19, 1863 --
25. Annual Message to Congress: December 8, 1863 --
26. Letter to Michael Hahn: March 13, 1864 --
27. Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland: April 18, 1864 --
28. Second Inaugural Address: March 4, 1865 --
29. Speech from the Balcony, Last Public Address: April 11, 1865.</tableOfContents>
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  <note>Includes bibliographical references.</note>
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