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Manuscript fragment of "House Divided" speech

Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)ca. 1857

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
New York, NY, United States

A single page beginning "Why Kansas is neither the whole, nor a tithe of the real question." Unpublished and unrecorded. Current dating is based upon Don E. Fehrenbacher's hypothesis that this speech responds to Stephen A. Douglas's speech in the Senate of 1857 Dec. 9 (Prelude to Greatness, chap. 4).

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  • Title: Manuscript fragment of "House Divided" speech
  • Creator: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
  • Date: ca. 1857
  • GLC Number: GLC02533
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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