A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln

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The audience he was to meet in New York would include among its members many of the best known men of the day, the foremost representatives of the wealthy and fashionable society of the greatest city of the Union. He himself was not without 74 ABRAHAM LINCOLN considerable misgiving as to the reception with which he was likely to meet. The result showed that he had gauged rightly the temper of his audience. He avoided all attempt at rhetorical display or impassioned oratory, and studied to make ...appeal to the reason rather than to the emotions of his listeners. The speech was char- acterised by the temperateness of its tone and the forcible and logical manner in which he drove home his points on the leading question of the day. It was widely reported in full in the New York press, and praised for its " great apparent candour and great fairness." The late Joseph Choate, for some years American Ambassador in London, who was present on the occasion, has left a record of his impressions of the speech and the speaker : * — "It is now," he said, " forty years since I first saw and heard Abraham Lincoln, but the impression which he left on my mind is ineffaceable.

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