The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln Author:Abraham Lincoln Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: by this same President driven into disfavor, if not disgrace, for intimating that peace could not be conquered in less than three or four months. But now, at the... more » end of about twenty months, during which time our arms have given us the most splendid successes, every department and every part, land and water, officers and privates, regulars and volunteers, doing all that men could do, and hundreds of things which it had ever before been thought men could not do—after all this, this same President gives a long message, without showing us that as to the end he himself has even an imaginary conception. As I have before said, he knows not where he is. He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserably perplered man. God grant he may be able to show there is not something about his conscience more painful than all his mental perplexity. EULOGY ON HENRY CLAY. [The following is the substance of a laudatory Address, delivered July 16, 1852, by Mr. Lincoln in the State House at Springfield, 111., on the life and distinguished services of Henry Clay, who died at Washington, D. C., on the 20th of the preceding month, in his seventy-fifth year. The Eulogy of the eloquent and eminent statesman is a well-reasoned and appreciative one, dwelling on Mr. Clay's great services to the nation throughout his lengthened and useful career, during which he wielded a potent as well as salutary influence in legislation. Mr. Lincoln, it will be seen, speaks justly and approvingly of Mr. Clay's distinctive service in effecting the Missouri Compromise of 1850, a measure which, unhappily, was repealed four years later. The speech appeared at the time in the Illinois State Journal"]. On the fourth day of July, 1776, the people of a few feeble and oppressed colonies of Great Britain, inhabiting a portion of the...« less