Lincoln's Speeches and Letters

ISBN: 9781330485576 出版年：2016 页码：37 Abraham Lincoln Forgotten Books

Mr. Lincoln was a candidate for the legislature in 1832, and at New Salem, Illinois, he is said to have delivered his first political speech, in March of that year. When this speech was delivered, Lincoln was only twenty — three years of age. In this contest he was defeated, but it was his only defeat by a direct vote of the people.