. Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits. armies marchedupon our capital, obstruction and danger to ournavigation, letters of marque to invite pirates toprey upon our commerce, and a concerted move-ment to blot out the United States of Americafrom the map of the globe. The question is. Arewe to maintain the country of our fathers, orallow it to be stricken by those, who, whenthey can no longer govern, threaten to destroy ? What cause, what
. Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits. armies marchedupon our capital, obstruction and danger to ournavigation, letters of marque to invite pirates toprey upon our commerce, and a concerted move-ment to blot out the United States of Americafrom the map of the globe. The question is. Arewe to maintain the country of our fathers, orallow it to be stricken by those, who, whenthey can no longer govern, threaten to destroy ? What cause, what excuse, do disunionists giveus for breaking up the best government on whichthe sun of heaven ever shed its rays ? They aredissatisfied with the result of the presidentialelection. Did they never get beaten before? Arewe to resort to the sword when we get beaten atthe ballot-box? I understand it that the voiceof the people, expressed in the mode appointed bythe Constitution, must command the obedience ofevery citizen. They assume, on the election of aparticular candidate, that their rights are notsafe in the Union. What evidence do they pre-sent of this? I defy any man to show any act. THE HOUSE ON lOTH ST., WASHINGTON, D. C, INWHICH LINCOLN DIED ABRAHAM LINCOLN 111 on which it is based. What act has been omittedto be done? I appeal to these assembled thou-sands, that, so far as the constitutional rights ofslaveholders are concerned, nothing has beendone, and nothing omitted, of which they cancomplain. There has never been a time, from the daythat Washington was inaugurated first Presidentof these Lnited States, when the rights of theSouthern States stood firmer under the laws ofthe land than they do now; there never was atime when they had not as good cause for dis-union as they have today. What good cause havethey now. which has not existed under everyadministration ? *Tf they say the territorial question, now, forthe first time, there is no act of Congress prohib-iting slaver
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