Abraham Lincoln : the greatest American . Abraham Lincoln and unwise. The country was not readyfor this, the most stupendous task ever setby a ruler of people—President, King, orEmperor. When the clock struck thehour—Abraham Lincoln heard it, and wasready. The hand lifted in solemn oath inthat slave market, took up the pen of Lib-erty, and wrote out of existence theAmerican slave market—the Americanslave—the American slave master. Whoshall say, the power that found an outletin American history, through the person-ality and pen of Abraham Lincoln, wasnot the spirit and power of that EternalGod
Abraham Lincoln : the greatest American . Abraham Lincoln and unwise. The country was not readyfor this, the most stupendous task ever setby a ruler of people—President, King, orEmperor. When the clock struck thehour—Abraham Lincoln heard it, and wasready. The hand lifted in solemn oath inthat slave market, took up the pen of Lib-erty, and wrote out of existence theAmerican slave market—the Americanslave—the American slave master. Whoshall say, the power that found an outletin American history, through the person-ality and pen of Abraham Lincoln, wasnot the spirit and power of that EternalGod invoked at the slave auction? In theinterval between the New Orleans slavemarket and the White House, during hisone term in Congress, he introduced a billto abolish slavery in the District of Co-lumbia. Now, by the stroke of his pen, heswept slavery from the face of the wholecountry. On September 22, 1862, Abraham Lin-coln announced to hisi Cabinet, in the fol-lowing words, his decision to issue theEmancipation Proclamation:[20]. Emancipation Monument The Greatest American Gentlemen: I have, as you are aware,thought a great deal about the relation ofthis war to slavery, and you all rememberthat several weeks ago I read to you anorder that I had prepared upon the sub-ject, which, on account of objections madeby some of you, was not issued. Eversince then my mind has been much occu-pied with this subject, and I have thoughtall along that the time for acting on itmight probably come. I think the time has come now. I wishit was a better time. I wish that we werein a better condition. The action of thearmy against the rebels has not been quitewhat I should have best liked, but theyhave been driven out of Maryland, andPennsylvania is no longer in danger ofinvasion. When the rebel army was at Freder-ick, I determined, as soon as it should bedriven out of Maryland, to issue a pro-clamation of emancipation, such as Ithought most likely to be useful. I saidnothing to anyone, but
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