Events, Dear Boy…
Events!
Abraham Lincoln’s
1860
February…
Cooper Union Address…
Part Five…
This…
“…most melancholy man…”
…ceases his reasoned & righteous rally to consign the cruelty of slavery to the past with this famous flourish…
“ Let us have faith that right makes might & that in that faith…
…let us dare to do our duty as we understand it! ”
What words!
“…At the Cooper Union, Lincoln became more than a regional curiosity, he became a…
National Leader…”
Rotten to his core, media magnate & Republican Party King-Maker…
Horace Greely
“…One of the most happiest & convincing political arguments ever made in this City…”
…one of over Fifteen-Hundred in attendance that fair February, New York evening would seem to heartily agree & within weeks of this future colossii’s colossal** colosseum address…
**…At 7,00 words long, ‘The Cooper Union Address’ is easily Lincoln’s longest ever oration…
Abe Lincoln
not the…
“ Bearded Icon of Myth ”
rather our…
humongously handed…
“…clean-shaven, fresh-voiced, political original who conquers New York on his way to the White House &…
Smokin’…
*…s’at not Bill Hartnell ?
…Immortality!”
Part Six, here…
“Electrifying…”
“…Lincoln’s watershed, the event transforming him from a mere regional leader into a national phenomenon…”
“…Learned, witty & exquisitely reasoned…”
“…Had he failed at his do-or-die New York debut, few may recognise the nation as it is today…”
“…Arriving as a politician with many more defeats than victories to his name, Lincoln departs politically reborn…”
“…His new suit was, on the night, of little impact as it fit the massive & lanky Lincoln poorly, but his speech, delivered in his customary shrill tone, was a masterful exploration of the political paths open to the Nation…”
It had been, undeniably, however…
( Magnifico! )
…a very fine suit, indeed!
Well, that’s a matter of opinion!
