 | Thomas E. Schneider - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 241 pages
...of laudable pursuit," is from the Message to Congress in Special Session, delivered on July 4, 1861. This is essentially a People's contest. On the side...from all shoulders — to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all — to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life. One may... | |
 | James E. Fleming - Law - 2006 - 350 pages
...than itself. In his special message to Congress on July 4, 186i, Lincoln described the struggle for the Union: [It] is a struggle for maintaining in the...from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life. Yielding... | |
 | Norton Garfinkle - Political Science - 2008 - 240 pages
...noted in a message to Congress in March 1861, at the outset of the Civil War, "On the side of the Union is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form...from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life" (emphasis... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - Biometry - 2007 - 216 pages
...the meaning of Jefferson's Declaration, which he had done so many times before on the campaign trail This is essentially a People's contest. On the side...whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men-to lift artificial weights from all shoulders-to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for ail-to... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...Why this deliberate pressing out of view [ofj the rights of men, and the authority of the people?" form, and substance of government, whose leading object...from all shoulders — to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all — to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life [my... | |
 | James Oakes - African American abolitionists - 2007 - 366 pages
...Lincoln: Speeches andWritings, i859-i865 (New York: Library of America, i989), pp. 83- 85. « « test. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining...from all shoulders — to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all — to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life."25... | |
 | Michael Knox Beran - History - 2007 - 521 pages
...philosophy of freedom and the philosophy of coercion was, Lincoln said, "essentially a People's contest. ... a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form...from all shoulders— to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all— to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life"— Lincoln,... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - Religion - 2007 - 340 pages
..."leading object" of government. In a message to Congress in special session on July 4, 1861, he asserts, to elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial...from all shoulders — to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all — to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life. Where... | |
 | James F. Simon - History - 2007 - 338 pages
...foes." It was "a People's contest," he said, in which the Union represented the best hope in the world "to elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial...from all shoulders — to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all — to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life." "A... | |
 | Bruce Fleet - 2007 - 182 pages
...chance, in the race of life," To Lincoln's mind, the fundamental test of a democracy was its capacity to "elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, and to clear paths of laudable pursuit for all," A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those... | |
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This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men... 
