The speeches of Abraham Lincoln : including inaugurals and proclamations ; with biographical introductions and prefatory notes . his occupying one place uponthe next Republican or Opposition ticket. I willheartily go for him. But unless he does so place him-• self, I think it is a matter of perfect nonsense to at-tempt to bring about a union upon any other basis;that if a union be made, the elements will scatter sothat there can be no success for such a ticket, nor any-thing like success. The good old maxims of the Bibleare applicable, and truly applicable, to human affairs,and in this, as in
The speeches of Abraham Lincoln : including inaugurals and proclamations ; with biographical introductions and prefatory notes . his occupying one place uponthe next Republican or Opposition ticket. I willheartily go for him. But unless he does so place him-• self, I think it is a matter of perfect nonsense to at-tempt to bring about a union upon any other basis;that if a union be made, the elements will scatter sothat there can be no success for such a ticket, nor any-thing like success. The good old maxims of the Bibleare applicable, and truly applicable, to human affairs,and in this, as in other things, we may say here thathe who is not for us is against us; he who gatherethnot with us scattereth. I should be glad to have someof the many good, and able, and noble men of the Southto place themselves where we can confer upon themthe high honor of an election upon one or the other endof our ticket. It would do my soul good to do thatthing. It would enable us to teach them that, inas-much as we select one of their own number to carryout our principles, we are free from the charge that wemean more than we Lincoln as President-Elect, 1860 SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 259 ADDRESS AT COOPER INSTITUTE, NEW YORK,FEBRUARY 27, 1860. [This, one of the great speeches of Mr. Lincoln, is worthy ofthe notable gathering which turned out at New York to hear therough Western orator, who loved to be taken for what he was,a rude but kindly child of the people. The audience he addressedwas a cultured and critical one, composed largely of eminent menin the various learned professions; while on the platform withhim, besides the chairman, the poet Bryant, were men of thestamp of Horace Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher, Joseph Choate,David Dudley Field, and other men of high intellectual and socialposition. The address made a profound impression, not only bythe pure logic and forcible argument that mark the whole speech,but by the masterly manner in which Mr. Lincoln reviewed thehistory
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