. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . ttered start and a fair chance in the race of life. This is the leading objectof the government for whose existence we contend. Many people were impatient at Lincolns conservatism. He gave the Southevery chance possible. He pleaded with them with an earnestness that waspathetic. He recognized that the South was not alone to blame for the existenceof slavery, but that the sin was a national one. He sought to impress
. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . ttered start and a fair chance in the race of life. This is the leading objectof the government for whose existence we contend. Many people were impatient at Lincolns conservatism. He gave the Southevery chance possible. He pleaded with them with an earnestness that waspathetic. He recognized that the South was not alone to blame for the existenceof slavery, but that the sin was a national one. He sought to impress upon theSouth that he would not use his office as president to take away from them anyconstitutional right, great or small. In his first inaugural he addressed the men of the South as well as the Northas his countrymen, one and all, and, with an outburst of indescribable tender-ness, exclaimed: We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be then in those wondrously sweet and touching words which even yet thrillthe heart, he said: Though passion may have strained, it must not break ourbonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-. \
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