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The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions (Lyceum Address) | Teaching American History

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"The Perpetuation of our Political Institutions," more commonly known as the Lyceum Address, was an early speech of Lincoln's.

Source: Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Centenary Edition, vol. 2, ed. Marion Mills Miller (New York: Current Literature Publishing, 1907), 14–26, https://archive.org/details/lifeworks02lincuoft/page/274 As a subject for the remarks of the evening, the perpetuation of our political institutions is selected. In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American people, find our account running under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era. We find ourselves in the peaceful possession of the fairest portion of the earth, as regards extent of territory,…

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