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| March 4, 1865 |
Choux |
03/30/05 |
I ran aross this speech when I was looking up a quote for an answer on another Board.
A question or so ago, we talked about threats to democracy. Here are some quotes from Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address.
Fellow-Countrymen:-".....Now at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth in every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon whch all else cheifly depends, is as well known to the public and to myself, and it is, I turst, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. .......parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
One eighth of the whole population was colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. ...All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. ...Both read the same Bible and pray to the same But, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the seeat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be ot judged. The prayers of both could not be answered....With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives up to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
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