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Lincoln at Peoria
The Turning Point

by Lewis E. Lehrman

Students of Abraham Lincoln know the canon of his major speeches — from his Lyceum Speech of 1838 to his “Final Remarks” delivered from a White House window, days before he was murdered in 1865. Less well-known are the two speeches given at Springfield and Peoria two weeks apart in 1854. They marked Mr. Lincoln’s reentry into the politics of Illinois and, as he could not know, his preparation for the Presidency in 1861. These Lincoln addresses catapulted him into the debates over slavery which dominated Illinois and national politics for the rest of the decade.

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Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper
Union Address

Mr. Lincoln and New York Feature

August Belmont (1816-1890)

The group of New York Democrats with whom August Belmont was associated was called the "Silk Stockings."

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Abraham Lincoln's Classroom Feature

The Perilous Voyage to the White House

This cartoon mocks the election of 1860.

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