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The Ultimate Voice of Lincoln
- Rhetoric & Public Affairs
- Michigan State University Press
- Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2000
- pp. 49-57
- 10.1353/rap.2010.0125
- Article
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An uncharacteristically strained passage in the introduction of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address is evidence of Lincoln's self-effacement. The consequences of that self-effacement represent a singular rhetorical achievement.