Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln: A Memorial Oration Delivered at Franklin, N.Y., June 1st, 1865 |
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Abraham Lincoln aristoc assassin BEQUEST OF EVERT boy of honest century with less class of free Confederacy country and humanity Declaration of Inde Declaration of Independence dependent upon labor elected in 1860 Emancipation Proclamation emphatically a child endorse its wisdom EVERT JANSEN WENDELL fame is less farmers or business Fellow-Citizens:-No man's life-work free institutions free white citi friends fully ap grandsons of farmers HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY heart honest parentage looked honor humblest class inalienable rights JANSEN WENDELL 1918 know the tools labor for support land late Presi less external advantages liberty man's fame MEMORIAL ORATION NATIONAL FAST-DAY North-Labor obstacles he overcame office were probably old Independence Hall opinion ORATION OF S. F. people-the perfect aud collossal political predeces principle Probably no boy pursuit of happiness rebellion remain seen represented REPUBLICAN S. F. MILLER self-educated shadow of slavery Sixteenth President slave South stands out grand sunshine of free truths Union victories zens
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Page 4 - Think nothing of me; take no thought for the political fate of any man whomsoever, but come back to the truths that are in the Declaration of Independence. You may do anything with me you choose, if you will but heed these sacred principles. You may not only defeat me for the Senate, but you may take me and put me to death. While pretending no indifference to earthly honors, I do claim to be actuated in this contest by something higher than an anxiety for office. I charge you to drop every paltry...
Page 3 - AngloSaxon white men, were entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence, and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began...
Page 4 - ... the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence, and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began, so that truth and justice and mercy, and all the humane and Christian virtues, might not be extinguished from the land ; so that no man would hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the great principles on which the temple of ^Liberty was being built.
Page 4 - I charge you to drop every paltry and insignificant thought for any man's success. It is nothing; I am nothing; Judge Douglas is nothing. But do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity — the Declaration of American Independence.
Page 3 - Wise statesmen as they were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, or none but AngloSaxon white men, were entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Page 3 - This was their majestic interpretation of the economy of the universe. This was their lofty and wise and noble understanding of the justice of the Creator to his creatures — yes, gentlemen, to all his creatures, to the whole great family of man. In their enlightened belief, nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on and degraded and imbruted by its fellows.
Page 3 - They erected a beacon to guide their children and their children's children, and the countless myriads who should inhabit the earth in other ages.
Page 4 - Now, my countrymen, if you have been taught doctrines conflicting with the great land-marks of the Declaration of Independence; if you have listened to suggestions which would take away from its grandeur and mutilate the fair symmetry of its proportions; if you have been inclined to believe that all men are not created equal in those inalienable rights enumerated by our charter of liberty, — let me entreat you to come back; return to the fountain whose waters spring close by the blood of the Revolution.
Page 10 - Congress called upon him one day with the brother of a deserter who had been arrested. The excuse was that the soldier had been home on a sick-furlough, and that he afterwards became partially insane, and had consequently failed to return and report in proper time. He was on his way to his regiment at the front to be tried. The President at once ordered him to be stopped at Alexandria and sent before a board of surgeons for examination as to the question of insanity. " This seemed to me so proper,"...
Page 10 - Though kind-hearted almost to a fault, nevertheless Mr. Lincoln always endeavored to be just. The Hon. SF Miller, of New York, called upon him one day with the brother of a deserter who had been arrested. The excuse was that the soldier had been home on a sick-furlough, and that he afterwards became partially insane, and had consequently failed to return and report in proper time. He was on his way to his regiment at the front to be tried. The President at once ordered him to be stopped at Alexandria...