. 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 . Far around as human breath has ever blown,he keeps our fathers, our brothers, our sons, and ourfriends prostrate in the chains of moral death. To allthe living everywhere we cry: Come, sound the mo
. 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 . Far around as human breath has ever blown,he keeps our fathers, our brothers, our sons, and ourfriends prostrate in the chains of moral death. To allthe living everywhere we cry: Come, sound the moraltrump, that these may rise and stand up an exceedinggreat army. Come from the four winds, O breath!and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. Ifthe relative of revolutions shall be estimatedby the great amoun^, of human misery they alleviate, and. THE WAITING WIFE. 324 LINCOLNS STORIES AND SPEECHES. the small amount they inflict, then, indeed, will this bethe grandest the world shall ever have seen. Of our political revolution of 1776 we are all justlyproud. It has given us a degree of political freedom farexceeding that of any other nations of the earth. In itthe world has found a solution of the long-mootedproblem as to the capability of man to govern it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is togrow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind. But with all these glorious results, past, present, andto come, it had its evils too. It breathed forth famine,swam in blood, and rode in fire; and long, long after, theorphans cry and the widows wail continued to break thesad silence that ensued. These were the price, the in-evitable price, paid for the blessings it bought. Turn now to the temperance revolution. In it weshall find a stronger bondage broken, a viler slaverymanumitted, a greater tyrant deposed—i
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