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Abraham Lincoln’s Lost Speech

“Abraham Lincoln’s ‘Lost Speech’ may have been the most influential oration delivered in America since the founding of the Republic.” * “The Illinois State Republican Convention met at Bloomington on May 29, 1856. It furnished the setting for one of the most dramatic episodes of Lincoln’s life … A speech by Lincoln was rarely an ordinary occurrence, but on this occasion he made one of the really great efforts of his life. So powerful was his eloquence that the reporters forgot to take notes of what he was saying. Several commenced, but in a few minutes they were entirely captured by the speaker’s power, and their pencils were still.” ** When most people think of Abraham Lincoln’s greatest speeches, they think of the Gettysburg Address, the Second Inaugural, the House Divided Speech, or the Cooper Institute Address. However, some think his best speech was “lost.” Although roughly 40 news reporters were present for his May 29, 1856, speech in Bloomington, not one remembered to take notes. Over 1,000 people were present for the speech. Apparently Lincoln’s effort was so captivating, the audience was simply mesmerized. What are the circumstances surrounding this amazing speech? In 1856 Illinois, along with other states, held a state convention to help organize and strengthen the new Republican Party. In Illinois the convention met in Bloomington in Major’s Hall located upstairs over Humphrey’s Cheap Store. Broad spectrums of political beliefs were present: Whigs, Free Soilers, Know-Nothings, and abolitionists. The convention, composed of about 270 delegates, declared that Congress had and should employ its power to stop the spread of slavery westward. It adopted the following resolution: “Resolved, That we hold in accordance with the opinions and practices of all the great statesmen of all parties for the first sixty years of the administration of the government, that under the Constitution, Congress possesses full power to prohibit slavery in the territories; and that while we will maintain all constitutional rights of the South, we also hold that justice, humanity, the principles of freedom, as expressed in our Declaration of Independence and our National Constitution, and the purity and perpetuity of our government require that that power should be exerted, to prevent the extension of slavery into territories heretofore free.” After a series of speeches, there were cries for Abraham Lincoln to take the platform. At 5:30 P.M. he did so.The people listened for about 90 minutes. William Herndon, Lincoln’s law partner, “attempted for about fifteen minutes, as was usual with me then to take notes, but at the end of that time I threw pen and paper away and lived only in the inspiration of the hour.” Lincoln spoke extemporaneously, and he clearly identified slavery as the root cause of the country’s problems. One delegate said, “Never was an audience more completely electrified by human eloquence. Again and again, during the delivery, the audience sprang to their feet, and by long-continued cheers, expressed how deeply the speaker had roused them.” Although no verbatim report of the speech exists, it seems clear from statements of those present that the key ideas Lincoln stressed were as follows: 1. That there were pressing reasons for the formation of the Republican Party. 2. That the Republican movement was very important to the future of the nation. 3. All free soil people needed to rally against slavery and the existing political evils. 4. The nation must be preserved in the purity of its principles as well as in the integrity of its territorial parts, and the Republicans were the ones to do it. It was a truly a speech full of hypnotic inspiration as Lincoln attempted to unify all the discordant anti-slavery factions into a concerted party that could defeat the Democrats in upcoming elections. Writing in the Chicago Democrat, reporter John Wentworth said, “Abraham Lincoln for an hour and a half held the assemblage spellbound by the power of his argument, the intense irony of his invective, the brilliancy of his eloquence. I shall not mar any of its fine proportions by attempting even a synopsis of it.” Herndon concluded, “His speech was full of fire and energy and force. It was logic; it was pathos; it was enthusiasm; it was justice, equity, truth, and right set ablaze by the devine fires of a soul maddened by the wrong; it was hard, heavy, knotty, gnarly, backed with wrath.” “The audience sat enthralled. Men listened as though transfixed. Reporters forgot to use the pencils in their hands, so that no complete and authentic record of what may have been his greatest speech has ever been found. At the end, the hall rocked with applause. The Republican Party was reborn in Illinois.”*** Over the years a few “versions” of Lincoln’s Lost Speech have been published. The most famous of these was by Henry Clay Whitney, a lawyer and Lincoln biographer. Whitney’s version was published in McClure’s Magazine in 1896. Whitney said that he had transcribed notes that were taken down while the speech was being delivered. The majority of Lincoln experts reject Whitney’s report of the speech. One reason for this is that there was a 40-year gap between the speech itself and the publication of Whitney’s version.

Abraham Lincoln Favourite Poem

ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S FAVORITE POEM

“I would give all I am worth, and go into debt, to be able to write so fine a piece as I think that is. Neither do I know who is the author. I met it in a straggling form in a newspaper last summer, and I remember to have seen it once before, about fifteen years ago, and this is all I know about it.” Abraham Lincoln wrote those lines in a letter to a friend, Andrew Johnston (a lawyer in Quincy, Illinois), on April 18, 1846. The piece Lincoln was referring to was titled Mortality or Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? The author was a Scotsman named William Knox (1789-1825). Dr. Jason Duncan first introduced Lincoln to the poem when the two were living in New Salem. Lincoln memorized the entire poem and recited it so often that some folks mistakenly thought he was the author. The poem’s melancholy tone appealed to Lincoln. William Herndon, Lincoln’s law partner, thought the poem was (for Lincoln) a remembrance of Ann Rutledge as well as a discourse on the delicate nature of human life. The lines of Mortality are as follows: Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid; And the young and the old, the low and the high, Shall molder to dust, and together shall lie. The infant a mother attended and loved; The mother that infant’s affection who proved; The husband, that mother and infant who blessed; Each, all, are away to their dwelling of rest. The maid on whose cheek, on whose brow, in whose eye, Shone beauty and pleasure – her triumphs are by; And the memory of those who loved her and praised, Are alike from the minds of the living erased. The hand of the king that the sceptre hath borne, The brow of the priest that the mitre hath worn, The eye of the sage, and the heart of the brave, Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave. The peasant, whose lot was to sow and to reap, The herdsman, who climbed with his goats up the steep, The beggar, who wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we tread. The saint, who enjoyed the communion of Heaven, The sinner, who dared to remain unforgiven, The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude goes – like the flower or the weed That withers away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes – even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told. For we are the same that our fathers have been; We see the same sights that our fathers have seen; We drink the same stream, we feel the same sun, And run the same course that our fathers have run. The thoughts we are thinking, our fathers would think; From the death we are shrinking, our fathers would shrink; To the life we are clinging, they also would cling - But it speeds from us all like a bird on the wing. They loved – but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned – but the heart of the haughty is cold; They grieved – but no wail from their slumber will come; They joyed – but the tongue of their gladness is dumb. They died – aye, they died – we things that are now, That walk on the turf that lies over their brow, And make in their dwellings a transient abode, Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage road. Yea, hope and despondency, pleasure and pain, Are mingled together in sunshine and rain; And the smile and the tear, the song and the dirge, Still follow each other, like surge upon surge. ‘Tis the wink of an eye – ’tis the draught of a breath - From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?

Abraham Lincoln first real love affair Ann Mayes Rutledge

Ann Mayes Rutledge was born on January 7, 1813, near Henderson, Kentucky. She was the third of ten children born to Mary and James Rutledge. In 1829, along with John M. Cameron, James Rutledge founded New Salem, Illinois. There they built a dam; alongside the dam both a sawmill and gristmill were constructed. As business increased, Rutledge and Camron decided to lay out a town and sell lots. Over the next few years New Salem became a fairly typical pioneer town.Soon James Rutledge converted his home into a tavern and built an addition for guests. One can imagine Ann helping her mother with the cooking, doing household chores, and serving the guests. She was an excellent seamstress. Eventually, Ann took over the management of the tavern. Also, she was the only girl to attend Mentor Graham’s New Salem school. The photograph to the right depicts the cover of the actual grammar text used by Ann Rutledge and Abraham Lincoln. Ann’s signature is at the top. The book is in the Library of Congress.** Eyewitnesses described Ann as intelligent, pretty and friendly. Her cousin, James McGrady Rutledge, said, “She was a beautiful girl and as bright as she was beautiful.” She had auburn hair, blue eyes, stood five feet three inches, and weighed about 120 pounds. It would seem her character was positively noted throughout the area. She was described as sweet and angelic; apparently she was loved by all who knew her. A “bigger than life” person almost arises in one’s imagination.

A new resident in town, Abraham Lincoln, boarded for a while at the tavern. However, Ann became engaged to a man named John MacNamar who had come west from New York. MacNamar formed a partnership with Samuel Hill and started a store. With the profits from this enterprise, he was able to acquire considerable property. MacNamar, who had assumed the name “McNeil” for dubious reasons, told Ann he needed to return to his parents in the east but would come back to New Salem to marry her. In 1832 MacNamar left on his trip.Time passed… and MacNamar didn’t return. What happened next has been the subject of profound historical speculation, conjecture, and inference. After Lincoln’s death in 1865, William Herndon interviewed former New Salem residents including surviving members of the Rutledge family. Although the details these people remembered varied some in particulars, it seems clear a definite relationship between Ann and Abraham developed. When Mary Owens visited New Salem in 1833 Abraham took notice, but it seems his deeper feelings were for Ann. Abraham visited her often, and it is possible they became unofficially engaged with the intent to marry after Lincoln obtained his law degree (which he was studying for while living in New Salem). In the summer of 1835 Ann became ill with what may have been typhoid fever. Her condition worsened to the point where death beckoned. Ann called for Abraham, and he made a private, final visit to the dying girl. “I can never forget how sad and broken-hearted Lincoln looked when he came out of the room from the last interview with Annie. No one knows what was said at that meeting, for they were alone together.” – Quote from Ann’s sister, Nancy. “A better man never lived.” – Quote about Abraham Lincoln by Ann’s brother, John.

Shortly thereafter, on August 25, 1835, Ann Rutledge passed away at the age of 22. Reports of Lincoln’s reaction vary. Many thought he became terribly depressed. A few of the locals thought he became suicidal. After all, this had been his very first serious romance.

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