Why Lincoln Grows a Beard Inspired by Grace Bedell
The tale recalls Grace Bedell Billings once a child of eleven who urged Lincoln to grow a beard in 1860. Her letter led to a famous whiskered image, a meeting in Westfield, and Lincoln’s warm greeting before his 1861 inauguration.
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Ingersoll’s Tribute to Lincoln
The orator robs Lincoln of type and paints him as a universal, complex man who loved truth, mercy, and independence. He praises Lincoln’s wit, honesty, learning, and restraint while contrasting him with ceremonial postures and urging readers to study Lincoln’s Gettysburg words.
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Ange Minugtina
Socrates
Rabelais
Aesop
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Lincoln
Gettysburg
Edward Everett
Everett
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address Reframed
Lincoln speaks on the end of civil war and union healing. He notes both sides prayed to the same God yet failure to unite persisted. He calls for malice toward none, to strive to finish the work, bind up wounds, care for veterans and orphans, and seek a just peace.
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My Captain Dear Father Whitman Death Poem
Walt Whitman’s famous poem On the Death of Abraham Lincoln appears here as Captain My Captain. The text recalls Lincoln’s death, the Civil War, and Whitman’s role in hospitals. The poem uses a sea voyage metaphor to mourn a slain leader and celebrate a victorious but mournful end.
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Abraham Lincoln
Great American Post
Washington
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Plutarch
Lincoln on Alabama War Warning and Cabinet Clash
The Hyde Park Gazette recounts a Lincoln story amid a tense 1860s campaign. After Butler spoke at Everett Hall, Lincoln convened his cabinet over England’s plan to send a privateer, leaning toward immediate action while Seward urged delay. Lincoln adjourned with orders to warn Lord Palmerston that one more Alabama would justify war.
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England
Samuel R. Moseley
Hyde Park
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Lincoln
Moseley
Gazette
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Everett
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Everett House
Boston
Alabama
Commedore Winslow
Cherbourg
Seward
Stanton
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Lord Palmerston
Lincoln's nomination tale from the 1860 Chicago convention
The memoir recalls how Lincoln won at the Wigwam after a late surge. It notes the close ballots with Seward leading early, the shift by Illinois and New York allies, and Massachusetts votes eventual for Lincoln as Governor Andrew and Evarts pushed toward unanimity.
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John
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Concord
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New York
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Mr. Judd
Illinois
United States
William L. Dayton
New Jersey
Simon Cameron
Salmon P. Chase
Ohio
C. B. Smith
Indiana
Nunois
Mr. Delano
Andrew
Evarta
The House Of Bondage A Sermon On Sin And Freedom
Rev Samuel W Purvis D.D portrays sin as a prison and Christ as the Deliverer. He contrasts the visible prison of stone with the deeper bondage of bad habits, temper, appetite, and greed, urging personal repentance and liberation through faith. He cites Bunyan and other reformers and calls for spiritual emancipation beyond laws and education.
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John Vill
Stone
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Perdition
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Scorpion
Christ
Spain
John Bunyan
Jerry MacAuley
New York
John B. Gough
Atlantic City
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Belle Island
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Earthly House of Bondage
Heavenly Mansions of
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