Watching "Lincoln" on the History Channel. What a rube. What a surprise.

[Faygo Kid]

The Cooper Union speech, in New York, following the Douglas debates, speaks to us yet today. Two more hours on "The History Channel" Let us have faith that right makes might. Especially now.

[NNadir]

1. I have always regretted that the Cooper Union speech was not preserved.

We have a good idea what he said, but there is no direct record.

That speech changed American History.

Lincoln though was no rube. He was the shrewdest President we have ever had. He was probably the only man in history who could have succeeded as he did at what he did.

[Faygo Kid]

2. Yes, we do have Cooper Union! You are thinking of his Illinois speech

That is lost forever, and that blew everyone, including his reporters, away. Cooper Union is brilliant. He takes the laws governing the Northwest Territories, and rips the expansion of slavery to shreds. It's a long speech. I am going to read it again when I go to bed. Here it is, for you to print out. I weep when I think what we have today.

http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/cooper.htm

[NNadir]

4. I stand corrected. I don't know how I didn't know that.

Thanks.

[nutsnberries]

3. thanks for posting. i can catch the last hour. -nt

[AmyDeLune]

5. Available from C-Span--

Sam Waterston "performing" the Cooper Union Address--

http://www.c-spanstore.org/shop/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=181864-1


Summary:
In Mr. Lincoln's famous address, which many credit with earning him the presidency, Mr. Lincoln argued against the spread of slavery to the Western states. The speech is the subject of a new book by Harold Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, published by Simon and Schuster. Prior to Waterston’s speech, Mr. Holzer described the culture that produced the speech, Lincoln’s presidential campaign, and the speech's impact. Mr. Holzer introduced Sam Waterston's presentation. Actor Sam Waterston delivered Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address in the Great Hall of Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, where it was originally delivered on February 27, 1860...Event Date: May 5, 2004