
Interview: Diana Schaub on Lincoln's Lyceum Address | The New Thinkery Ep. 84
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Is That the Last Mention of Washington?
Saving the union may be a more significant action than founding the union. There's a kind of acknowledgment of that in lincoln himself in his springfield farewell when he leaves to go to washington, d c. He does the same thing in the lyceum address. Ah, there's some speech in the fifties, 18 fifties where he will also kind of invoke washington,. Not not quite at the very end of the address, but very near the end of it. And that that ceases really, once he assumes the presidency. You could see it in in the first inaugural he ends with god rather than witha.
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