Events!
Events, Dear Boy…
February…
1860
Abraham Lincoln’s
Cooper Union Address…
Part Three…
“…Mr Lincoln wore no beard at the time…
His hair was mussed-up…
It stood in all directions…
“The Man looked as though he was ready to fall to pieces & didn’t care one bit if he did…”
After a bumpy start, however, the Presidential hopeful soon warms up to the task in hand…
Woddaguy!
(Greetings with the Man himself could be a hugely humbling experience in more ways than one…)
To find out why, read on, do!
“…Our only policy is to hold to the doctrine* framed by our…
Founding Fathers…”
Exquisite!
“ The clarity &logic of his speech quickly wiped away any doubts the audience may’ve had…”
The 51 year old self described ‘prairie lawyer’ was “...putting the farm…” on his belief that the majority of the forementioned Fathers would’ve been in broad agreement with his courageous stance on slavery…
21 of the 39 of them would’ve voted for an end claimed the ever persuasive Abe…
*…& what was that, exactly..?
Why, just a little something referred to as…
‘The Constitution’
“We The People…”
So begins the decisive National document (…drafted in 1787on hemp parchment…) the very oldest of any such anywhere in the World, specifically designed to undermine any (…purely theoretically, of course…) attempt at any of that despotic non-sense that plagued the places they have just risked their lives & limbs in leaving, to all intents & purposes, impossible…
Oh, that old rag !!
Anyway, do carry on…
I sure shall !
Part Four, here…
Credit, where Credit’s due, Brian…
Reffed by Wikipedia…
Abraham Lincoln’s Classroom…