Abraham Lincoln and his last resting place; . ABRAHAM LINCO K^N and HIS LAST resting place la. A B R A H A M LINCOLN 14 and HIS LAST resting place In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, isthe momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail can have no conllict without being yourselves the aggressors. Youhave no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shallhave the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. I am loathto close. We are not enemies, but friends. The mystic cords of memory,stretching from every battlefie
Abraham Lincoln and his last resting place; . ABRAHAM LINCO K^N and HIS LAST resting place la. A B R A H A M LINCOLN 14 and HIS LAST resting place In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, isthe momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail can have no conllict without being yourselves the aggressors. Youhave no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shallhave the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. I am loathto close. We are not enemies, but friends. The mystic cords of memory,stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heartand hearthstone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of theUnion when again touched, as they surely will be, by the better angels ofour nature. With infinite patience and uneqtialed forbearance and sagacity,Air. Lincoln strove to avert war, btit when, on April 12, 18G1, the rebelbatteries were opened upon Fort Sumter, forbearance was no longerpossible, and, on the 15th day of April, the pen that had only beenused to counsel moderation
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