Life of Abraham Lincoln : sixteenth President of the United States . successor. Why shouldthere not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice ofthe people ? Is there any better or equal hope in the world ?In our present differences is either party without faith ofbeing in the right ? If the Almighty Ruler of nations, withhis eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North,or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice willsurely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal, theAmerican people. By the frame of the government underwhich we live, this same people have wisel
Life of Abraham Lincoln : sixteenth President of the United States . successor. Why shouldthere not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice ofthe people ? Is there any better or equal hope in the world ?In our present differences is either party without faith ofbeing in the right ? If the Almighty Ruler of nations, withhis eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North,or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice willsurely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal, theAmerican people. By the frame of the government underwhich we live, this same people have wisely given theiipublic servants but little power for mischief, and have withequal v»isdom provided for the return of that little to thehown hands at very short intervals. While the people retaintheir virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extrem«wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the governmentin the short space of four years. My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well uponthis whole b^ bject. NotUing valuable can be lost by Biog,~VoL 32 ADMIRAL DAViD G. FARRAGUT, THE XEW ADMIXISTKATIGN. 1U3 ft — ___^ ^ naagural. Precipitate Action Unwarrantable. A Government at Last If there be an object to hurry any of you, in hot haste,to a step which you would never take deliberately, thatobject will be frustrated by taking time : but no good objectcan be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied, still have the oldConstitution unimpaired, and on the sensitive point, the lawiof your own framing under it; while the new administrationwill have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied holdthe right side in the dispute, there is still no single reason forprecipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity,and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken thiafavored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way,all our present difficulties. In your hands, my
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