Abraham Lincoln’s ”Suicide Soliloquy” and ”Cooper Union” Excerpts

Our 16th President suffered from depression throughout his life. 

""The Suicide's Soliloquy" is an unsigned poem, likely written by Abraham Lincoln, first published on August 25, 1838, in The Sangamo Journal, a four-page Whig newspaper in Springfield, Illinois." Wikipedia

Lincoln's "Cooper Union Address" was delivered February 27th, 1860 in New York city, and was instrumental in helping him secure the Republican nomination.

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