[lentulusgracchus]

Thank you for the recapitulation of Lincoln's speaking points, which I've seen nowhere else, not even in David Donald's recent biography (though I may have overlooked a passage somewhere). It provides at least a rough framework.

[nolu chan]

LINK to RJ Norton site

Above is the link to the RJ Norton site. The introductory sentence is below.

Although no verbatim report of the speech exists, it seems clear from statements of those present that the key ideas Lincoln stressed were as follows:

It also appears here with the same introduction, verbatim.