. Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated . imes tell us. We, when mounting the stage of existence, found our-selves the legal inheritors of these fundamental toiled not in the acquisition or establishment oftherti; they are a l
. Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated . imes tell us. We, when mounting the stage of existence, found our-selves the legal inheritors of these fundamental toiled not in the acquisition or establishment oftherti; they are a legacy bequeathed to us by a oncehardy, brave and patriotic, but now lamented and de-parted race of ancestors. Theirs was the task (and nobly they performed it) topossess themselves, and, through themselves, us, of thisgoodly land to uprear upon its hills and valleys a polit-ical edifice of liberty and equal rights; tis ours to trans- 296 LINCOLN STORIES AND SPEECHES. mit these—the former unprofaned by the foot of an in-truder, the latter undecayed by the lapse of time and un-torn by usurpation—to the generation that fate shall per-mit the world to know. This task, gratitude to our fath-ers, justice to ourselves, duty to posterity—all impera-tively require us faithfully to perform. How, then, shall we perform it? At what point shallwe expect the approach of Shall we expect that. BEM FRANKLIN. some trans-Atlantic military giant to step the ocean andcrush us at a * Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africacombined, with all the treasures of the earth (our ownexcepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for acommander, could not, by force, take a drink from theOhio, or make a track on the blue ridge, in a trial of gthousand years. At what point, then, is this approach of danger to be FREE INSTITUTIONS, 29/ expected? I answer, if ever it reach us, it must springup amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If de-struction be our lot, we must ourselves
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