A correspondent sends us an extract from a speech made by ABRAHAM LINCOLN in 1840 ... consolation of saying to our conscience, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the course ...

In words that would echo through history, Lincoln declared, “A house divided against itself cannot ... was a singular issue that fractured the country both geographically and economically.

he delivered his famous “House Divided” speech, in which he warned of the instability of a country that included slave states. Lincoln pulled this phrase from the book of Matthew, where Jesus ...

Before his historic presidency and before the legendary Lincoln-Douglas debates that would define his political rise, Abraham ...