In May 29, 1856, Abraham Lincoln gave the keynote address at a political convention in Bloomington, IL.  His remarks were called, by his law partner William Herndon, “the grand effort of Lincoln’s Life.”  Today, no written copy of this speech exists.  And some differ on what it was Lincoln said.

Historian Bill Kemp discusses the "lost speech" and offers up some theories as to how it got that way.

View the transcript here.