![]() ![]() ![]() “He said he never had a political feeling that night that did not spring from the Declaration, the idea that a new nation promised hope to the world - giving promise that all should have an equal chance, that artificial weight should be lifted from all men.” “He was almost overwhelmed by emotion speaking where the Declaration of Independence had been adopted,” Goodwin said. Also Lincoln stopped in Philadelphia on his way to his inauguration to speak at Independence Hall. Philadelphia produced two Union commanding generals – George McClellan and George Meade. Goodwin’s topic was supposed to be Philadelphia during the Civil War, and she did give passing reference to it - for example 100,000 Philadelphians saw service in the war and about 20,000 were killed. The hook was La Salle was founded in 1863, the year of Lincoln’s most notable triumphs: the Emancipation Proclamation, which was the prelude to the total abolition of slavery later in his administration the battle of Gettysburg, which helped turn the tide of the Civil War and his crowning oratorical achievement, the Gettysburg Address. ( See related story: Kearns Goodwin recalls growing up Catholic in Brooklyn, with a peculiar penance: praying for the Dodgers) The university was La Salle University, the lecturer on March 21 was historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and the subject was Abraham Lincoln, generally considered America’s greatest president. ![]()
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