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    Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Feb 2020

    1. 160 years ago today at Cooper Union in Manhattan, Abraham Lincoln made the speech that would do more than anything else to propel him to the Republican nomination three months later.

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      2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Feb 2020

        2. Lincoln was the first candidate to win a national nomination - let alone the presidency - by what he said, rather than who he was. By a media campaign. All prior presidents were Founders, conquering generals, and/or DC political elites (even Pierce).

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Feb 2020

        3. The Cooper Union speech got national press attention, as had his 1858 debates with Douglas. People outside DC & IL now knew not only Lincoln but Lincoln's arguments. Explosive growth of newspapers & the telegraph made that possible. http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/cooper.htm …

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      4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Feb 2020

        4. Lincoln made a point, at Cooper Union, to emphasize his conservatism ("adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried") & originalism vs the radicalism of the Slave Power. He wrapped himself in the traditions of the Founders.pic.twitter.com/Phv0p7tOnY

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      5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Feb 2020

        5. Yet Lincoln cut to the core point: the South could not stand a status quo in which some states were free, and professed that slavery was wrong. A reality the 1787 Constitution had made possible.pic.twitter.com/Yhqv7EV9bR

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      6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Feb 2020

        6. Lincoln's appeal to the Constitution's original, written meaning was quite explicit:pic.twitter.com/NZN6eMUD4u

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      7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Feb 2020

        7. One of Lincoln's greatest virtues was his sense of timing & what the American people were ready for. After the speech, Seward remained the favorite. But Lincoln had positioned himself as less radical than Seward or Chase seemed. He had wrapped their cause in tradition & law.

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      8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Feb 2020

        8. If you're so inclined, you can watch Sam Waterston deliver the whole speech.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ2De8VcSLw …

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      2. Tom Haquinas‏ @haquinas 27 Feb 2020
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        If you or your followers weren't aware, Sam Waterston performed the whole thing on C-SPAN a while back.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ2De8VcSLw …

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Feb 2020
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        heh, was just getting to that

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      1. JW‏ @Jay__DoubleU 28 Feb 2020
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        And the Cooper speech remains one of the best treatises against the 1619 Project.

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