Volume 9 of the series includes writings by Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, William H. Seward, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Greeley, Henry David Thoreau, John Brown, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, James Buchanan, William Tecumseh Sherman, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, John Greenleaf Whittier, Israel Benjamin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Henry Clay, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant. Writings include Lincoln's "A House Divided", the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses, "The Emancipation Proclomation" and "The Gettysburg Address". ( )