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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6. Lincoln's appeal to the Constitution's original, written meaning was quite explicit:pic.twitter.com/NZN6eMUD4u
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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. 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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The third paragraph in that excerpt could not be spoken by any politician today, as it would be taken 100% out of context and spread far and wide, making it sound as though Lincoln wanted to suppress anti-slavery speech, and to have runaway slaves returned to their slavemasters.
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