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The Cooper Union speech or address, known at the time as the Cooper Institute speech, [ 1 ] was delivered by Abraham Lincoln on February 27, 1860, at Cooper Union, in New York City. Lincoln was not yet the Republican nominee for the presidency, as the convention was scheduled for May.
Sep 14, 2021 · In the first session of the thirty-sixth Congress, which convened in December 1859, Douglas proposed the sedition law Lincoln described. Abraham Lincoln gave this speech at the Cooper Institute in New York on his journey from Springfield to his inauguration.
Summary. In a speech given prior to his nomination as the Republican candidate for the Presidency, Lincoln lays out his objection to slavery expanding into the Western territories and argues that the founding fathers would agree with his position based on their precedence of not prohibiting federal control over this issue.
On the night of February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln delivered one of his longest and most influential speeches. Speaking at New York City’s Cooper Institute to a capacity crowd of 1,500 primarily Republican Party members, Lincoln argued that Congress had the right to forbid slavery from expanding into the Western Territories.
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Lincoln spent 1859 reassessing his political future. And he obviously decided to keep his options open. He made an effort to take time off from his busy law practice to give speeches outside of Illinois, traveling to Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and Iowa. And he also spoke in Kansas, which had become known as "Bleeding Kansas"thanks to the bitter viol...
In October 1859, Lincoln was at home in Springfield, Illinois when he received, by telegram, another invitation to speak. It was from a Republican Party group in New York City. Sensing a great opportunity, Lincoln accepted the invitation. After several exchanges of letters, it was decided that his address in New York would be on the evening of Febr...
Lincoln put considerable time and effort into crafting the address he would deliver in New York. An idea advanced by pro-slavery advocates at the time was that Congress had no right to regulate enslavement in new territories. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney of the U.S. Supreme Court had actually advanced that idea in his notorious 1857 decision in the...
In February, Lincoln had to take five separate trains over the course of three days to reach New York City. When he arrived, he checked into the Astor House hotel on Broadway. After he arrived in New York Lincoln learned the venue of his speech had changed, from Beecher’s church in Brooklyn to the Cooper Union (then called Cooper Institute), in Man...
As Lincoln took the stage that evening at Cooper Union, he faced an audience of 1,500. Most of those attending were active in the Republican Party. Among Lincoln's listeners: the influential editor of the New York Tribune, Horace Greeley, New York Times editor Henry J. Raymond, and New York Post editor William Cullen Bryant. The audience was eager ...
In February 1860, Abraham Lincoln delivered the most important speech to that point in his career. Lincoln’s powerful remarks at the Cooper Institute in New York City paved the way toward his receiving the Republican Party’s nomination for the presidency.
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The volume contains an excerpt of Lincoln’s famous address at the Cooper Institute in February of 1860, a speech which many believe helped secure Lincoln’s nomination for the presidency. The excerpt, in which Lincoln denounces attempts to pin the raid on Republicans, and refers back to the stance of Thomas Jefferson (whose own position on ...
