An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . your own framing under it, while the newadministration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If itwere admitted that you w^ho are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute,there is still no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,Christianity, with a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favoredland, are still
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . your own framing under it, while the newadministration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If itwere admitted that you w^ho are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute,there is still no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,Christianity, with a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favoredland, are still competent to adjust in the best way all present diflficulty. In yourhands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issueof civil war. The government will not assail you. Tou can have no conflictwithout being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heavento destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve,protect, and defend it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies but friends. Wemust not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break ourbonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretched from every battle field. ADMINISTRATION OF LINCOLN. 685 and patriots grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they wiU be,by the better angels of our nature. Mr. Lincoln selected for his cabinet advisers, William H. Seward, ofNew York, Secretary of State ; Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, Secretaryof the Treasury ; Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of War;Gideon Welles, of Connecticut, Secretary of the Navy; Caleb , of Indiana, Secretary of the Interior; Montgomery Blair, ofMaryland, Postmaster-General; Edward Bates, of Missouri, Attorney-General. The pacific and conciliatory tone of the Inaugural was wholly lostupon the conspirators of the South. The day it was delivered. GeneralP. T. Beaure
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