ILLINOIS HISTORICAL SURVEY
 
 THE LINCOLN CENTENNIAL ASSOCIATION 
 
 FORMER GUESTS OF HONOR. 
 
 The Honorable Wm. H. Taft, President of the U. S. 
 
 The Right Honorable James Bryce, The British Ambassador. 
 
 The Honorable J. J. Jusserand, The French Ambassador. 
 *The Honorable Jonathan P. Dolliver of Iowa. 
 
 The Honorable William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska. 
 
 The Honorable Robert T. Lincoln of Illinois. 
 
 The Honorable N. C. Blanchard of Louisiana. 
 
 The Honorable Fred T. Dubois of Idaho. 
 
 The Honorable Charles S. Deneen of Illinois. 
 
 The Honorable John W. Noble of Missouri. 
 
 The Honorable Martin W. Littleton of New York. 
 
 The Honorable Richard Yates of Illinois. 
 
 The Honorable Peter S. Grosscup of Illinois. 
 
 The Honorable William H. Seaman of Wisconsin. 
 
 The Honorable Albert B. Anderson of Indiana. 
 *The Honorable Alfred Orendorff of Illinois. 
 
 The Honorable James S. Harlan of Washington, D. C. 
 
 The Honorable William A. Rodenburg of Illinois. 
 
 The Honorable John P. Hand of Illinois. 
 
 Dr. Booker T. Washington of Alabama. 
 *The Honorable Howland J. Hamlin of Illinois. 
 
 The Honorable William H. Stead of Illinois. 
 
 The Honorable Francis G. Blair of Illinois. 
 
 * Deceased.
 
 THE LINCOLN CENTENNIAL ASSOCIATION 
 
 INCORPORATORS. 
 
 *Hon. Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice U. S. Supreme Court. 
 Hon. Shelby M. Cullom, United States Senator. 
 Hon. Albert J. Hopkins. 
 
 Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, Member of Congress. 
 Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson. 
 Hon. Charles S. Deneen, Governor of Illinois. 
 Hon. John P. Hand, Justice Supreme Court, Illinois. 
 Hon. J. Otis Humphrey, Judge U. S. District Court. 
 Hon. James A. Rose, Secretary of State. 
 Hon. Ben. F. Caldwell. 
 Hon. Richard Yates. 
 Melville E. Stone, Esq., New York. 
 Horace White, Esq., New York. 
 John W. Bunn, Esq. 
 Dr. William Jayne. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 President J. Otis Humphrey 
 
 Vice President John W. Bunn 
 
 Secretary Philip B. Warren 
 
 Treasurer J. H. Holbrook 
 
 DIRECTORS 
 
 Shelby M. Cullom J. Otis Humphrey 
 
 John W. Bunn Charles S. Deneen 
 
 James A. Rose 
 
 * Deceased.
 
 THE LINCOLN CENTENNIAL ASSOCIATION 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 
 John W. Bunn. Thomas Rees. 
 
 Victor Bender. George Reisch. 
 
 Clinton L. Coukling. James A. Rose. 
 
 Shelby M. Cullom. Nicholas Roberts. 
 
 Charles S. Deneen. Edgar S. Scott. 
 
 E. A. Hall. George B. Stadden. 
 
 Logan Hay. Louis C. Taylor. 
 
 J. Otis Humphrey. Jas. R. B. VanCleave. 
 
 William Jayne. Philip B. Warren. 
 
 William B. Jess. Howard K. Weber 
 
 Edward D. Keys. Bluford Wilson. 
 
 George Pasfield, Jr. W. F. Workman. 
 
 Edward W. Payne. Loren E. Whaeler. 
 
 MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE. 
 Nicholas Roberts. Verne Ray. 
 
 James A. Easley. Latham T. Souther. 
 
 Arthur D. Mackie. 
 
 PUBLICITY COMMITTEE. 
 
 James A. Rose. Henry M. Merriam. 
 
 Jas. R. B. VanCleave. Thomas Rees. 
 
 BANQUET COMMITTEE. 
 
 George B. Stadden. John McCreery. 
 
 Philip Barton Warren. Walter McClellan Allen 
 
 MUSIC COMMITTEE. 
 
 Robert C. Brown. Albert Guest. 
 
 Clark B. Shipp. 
 
 SPEAKER'S COMMITTEE. 
 
 Shelby M. Cullom. Charles S. Deneen. 
 
 J. Otis Humphrey. 
 
 SOUVENIR AND PRINTING COMMITTEE. 
 Jas. R. B. VanCleave. Archibold L. Bowen. 
 
 Harrison C. Blankmeyer. 
 
 CEREMONIES COMMITTEE. 
 Jas. A. Rose. Francis G. Blair. 
 
 J. H. Collins. 
 
 DECORATION COMMITTEE. 
 Henry Abels. H. D. Swirles. 
 
 George B. Helmle. Frank S. Dickson. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN CENTENNIAL ASSOCIATION 
 
 LIFE MEMBERS. 
 
 ARKANSAS. 
 
 LUXORA. 
 S. E. Simonson. 
 
 CALIFORNIA. 
 SAN FRANCISCO. 
 Geo. N. Avmsby. 
 
 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
 
 WASHINGTON. 
 Shelby M. Cullom. 
 *Melville W. Fuller. 
 Geo. C. Rankin. 
 Wm. Barrett Ridgely. 
 
 INDIANA. 
 WlNIMAC. 
 
 Moses A. Dilts. 
 IOWA. 
 
 OSKALOOSA. 
 
 J. F. McNiel. 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 AMHEBST. 
 E. F. Leonard. 
 
 MICHIGAN. 
 BATTLE CREEK. 
 Charles W. Post. 
 
 MINNESOTA. 
 
 ST. PAUL. 
 Asa G. Briggs. 
 
 MISSOURI. 
 ST. Louis. 
 Wells H. Blodgett. 
 W. L. Desnoyers. 
 V. E. Desnoyers. 
 David R. Francis. 
 
 * Deceased. 
 
 James C. Jones. 
 Warrick M. Hough. 
 Ridgely Hudson. 
 B. C. Winston. 
 
 NEW YORK. 
 NEW YORK CITY. 
 John W. Ayinar. 
 Bird S. Coler. 
 W. N. Coler. 
 Melville E. Stone. 
 Horace White. 
 
 OHIO. 
 LIMA. 
 
 B. R. Stephens. 
 OKLAHOMA. 
 
 VlNITA. 
 
 Joseph A. Gill. 
 
 PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA. 
 William H. Lambert. 
 
 TEXAS. 
 
 EL PASO. 
 
 Jos. W. Norvell. 
 
 WISCONSIN. 
 MILWAUKEE. 
 
 John E. Burton. 
 H. F. Whitcomb. 
 
 ILLINOIS. 
 
 ALTON. 
 J. A. Cousley. 
 ANNA. 
 H. H. Kohn. 
 
 ASHLAND. 
 
 Edwin C. Beggs. 
 F. C. Wallbaum. 
 
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 AUBURN. 
 W. W. Lowry. 
 
 AURORA. 
 Ira C. Copley. 
 Albert J. Hopkins. 
 
 BELLEVILLE. 
 Wm. U. Halbert. 
 
 BETHANY. 
 John A. Freeland. 
 A. R. Scott. 
 
 BLOOMINGTON. 
 J. H. Cheney. 
 LaFayette Funk. 
 Frank Gillespie. 
 Thos. C. Kerrick. 
 John T. Lillard. 
 Adlai E. Stevenson. 
 
 BUFFALO. 
 Henry C. Garvey. 
 Oliver McDaniel. 
 
 BUFFALO HART. 
 John S. Hurt. 
 
 CAIRO. 
 
 F. A. DeRosset. 
 Geo. Parsons. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE. 
 John P. Hand. 
 
 CANTON. 
 U. G. Orendorff. 
 William H. Parlin. 
 
 CARBONDALE. 
 E. E. Mitchell. 
 *Geo. W. Smith. 
 George W. Smith. 
 
 CARLINVILLE. 
 William H. Behrens. 
 Frank L. Burton. 
 John I. Rinaker. 
 Robert B. Shirley. 
 
 CARTHAGE. 
 James F. Gibson. 
 
 CHAMPAIGN. 
 Euclid B. Rogers. 
 
 CHARLESTON. 
 Frank K. Dunn. 
 
 CHATHAM. 
 Ben. F. Caldwell. 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 Jacob M. Appel. 
 J. Ogden Armour. 
 A. C. Bartlett. 
 Wm. G. Beale. 
 W. L. Brown. 
 Patrick J. Cahill. 
 William T. Church. 
 Alex Chystraus. 
 C. E. Crafts. 
 F. P. Daniels. 
 Richmond Deau. 
 Charles S. Deneen. 
 Theodore Finn. 
 Peter S. Grosscup. 
 Ernest A. Hamill. 
 Isaac Miller Hamilton. 
 J. T. Harahan. 
 Geo. B. Harris. 
 Jesse Holdom. 
 L. J. Hungerford. 
 Albert M. Johnson. 
 Frank H. Jones. 
 Nicholas R. Jones. 
 S. O. Knudson. 
 Chas. R. E. Koch. 
 Joseph Leiter. 
 Robt. T. Lincoln. 
 H. A. Mathews. 
 Willard M. McEweu. 
 Willis Melville. 
 Wm. II. Mitchell. 
 Edward Morris. 
 Edward H. Morris. 
 Frank W. Morse. 
 James H. Roberts. 
 W. C. Seipp. 
 Frank C. Shepherd. 
 Frank L. Shepherd. 
 Byron L. Smith. 
 Orson Smith. 
 A. A. Sprague. 
 Charles S. Sweet. >
 
 Charles S. Sweet, Jr. 
 George W. Webster. 
 Elijah N. Zoline. 
 
 DANVILLE. 
 Joseph G. Cannon. 
 Walter J. Grant. 
 Wm. R. Jewell. 
 Frank Lindley. 
 John L. Watts. 
 
 DECATUB. 
 Everett J. Brown. 
 Hugh Crea. 
 O. B. Gorin. 
 Milton Johnson. 
 E. S. McDonald. 
 Joseph J. Sheehan. 
 
 DEKALB. 
 
 A. J. Kennedy. 
 
 DIVERNON. 
 *Charles G. Brown. 
 
 DIXON. 
 *S. H. Bethea. 
 
 DONAVAN. 
 
 John Nelson. 
 
 D WIGHT. 
 Frank L. Smith. 
 
 EAST ST. Louis. 
 J. B. Maguire. 
 Wm. E. Trautman. 
 Sidney D. Wilgus. 
 
 EDWARDSVILLE. 
 
 B. B. Cl^wson!; ; f ;: ;r ;; 
 
 ELGIN. 
 Sidney D. Wilgus. 
 
 . ELKIIAKT. 
 John D. G. Oglesby. 
 
 EVANSTON. 
 
 J. Seymour -CuErey. 
 FARMERSYILLE. 
 John Ball. 
 
 GALESBURG. 
 W. E. Terry. 
 
 GRANITE CITY. 
 R. E. Neidringhaus. 
 
 HAMILTON. 
 Edmund P. Denton. 
 
 HABBISBUBG. 
 Harry Taylor. 
 I. R. Tuttle. 
 
 JACKSONVILLE. 
 J. L. Adams. 
 H. B. Carriel. 
 Thos. B. Orear. 
 Andrew Russel. 
 Miller Weir. 
 Thomas Worthington. 
 
 JOLIET. 
 W. W. Smith. 
 
 KANKAKEE. 
 Frank P. Norbury. 
 Len Small. 
 
 LANESVILLE. 
 P. J. Kent. 
 
 LA SALLE. 
 F. W. Matthiessen. 
 
 LINCOLN. 
 J. A. Lucas. 
 
 LlTCHFIELD. 
 
 J. Carl Dodds. 
 J. Carl Dodds. 
 
 MADISON. 
 F. A. Garesche. 
 
 MATTOON. 
 Jas. W. Craig. 
 
 MECHANICSBUBG. 
 W. S. Bullard. 
 
 - MOLOE. 
 J. B. Oakleaf.,1 jiam'l 
 
 MORRISON. 
 F. E. Ramsey. 
 
 - .:i,\l 
 * Deceased. 
 

 
 MT. STERLING. 
 J. F. Regan. 
 
 MT. VEKNON. 
 W. C. Arthurs. 
 
 NEW BERLIN. 
 B. W. Brown. 
 J. Brown Hitt. 
 
 NEWMAN. 
 Scott Burgett. 
 W. M. Young. 
 
 NORMAL. 
 David Felmley. 
 R. N. McCauley. 
 
 OREGON. 
 Frank O. Lowden. 
 
 OTTAWA. 
 M. T. Moloney. 
 
 PANA. 
 A. H. McTaggert. 
 
 PARIS. 
 Charles P. Hitch. 
 
 PAWNEE. 
 Edward Baxter. 
 Frank Morrell. 
 Thos. A. Shepherd. 
 
 PAXTON. 
 Charles Bogardus. 
 
 PEARL CITY. 
 Charles Musser. 
 
 PEORIA. 
 
 Edward U. Henry. 
 Robert H. Lovett. - 
 H. W. Lynch. 
 W. G. McRoberts. 
 I. C. Pinkney. 
 P. G. Rennick. 
 Frederick H. Smith. 
 Joseph A. Weil. 
 
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 PlTTSFIELD. 
 Harry Higbee. 
 
 PONTIAC. 
 J. M. Lyon. 
 
 PRENTICE. 
 J. H. Hubbs. 
 
 QUINCY. 
 J. O. Anderson. 
 Edward J. Parker. 
 W. S. Warfield. 
 Fred Wilms. 
 
 RlCHLAND. 
 
 Tavner Anderson. 
 
 RIVERTON. 
 John Deal. 
 
 ROBINSON. 
 A. H. Jones. 
 
 ROCHESTER. 
 Ira F. Twist. 
 
 ROCKFORD. 
 
 Win. W. Bennett. 
 Robert Ren. 
 
 ROCK ISLAND. 
 Joseph DeSilva. 
 
 RUSHVILLE. 
 John S. Little. 
 
 SlIARPSBURG. 
 
 O. S. Nash. 
 
 SHELBYVILLE. 
 J. W. Yantis. 
 
 TAYLORVILLE. 
 John E. Hogan. 
 Ernest Hoover. 
 
 UEBANA. 
 Edmund J. James.- 1 .Y/~ 
 
 VANDALIA. 
 Jno. J. Brown. 
 W. M. Farmer.
 
 VlRDEX. 
 
 S. H. Humphrey. 
 Joseph N. Ross. 
 J. H. Shriver. 
 H. C. Simons. 
 Howard T. Wilson. 
 
 VIRGINIA. 
 *R5chard W. Mills. 
 
 WlLLIAMSYILLE. 
 
 J. F. Prather. 
 John W. Prather. 
 
 WlLMETTE. 
 
 W. T. Smith. 
 
 WINCHESTER. 
 A. P. Grout. 
 
 SPRINGFIELD. 
 
 Henry Abels. 
 Alfred Adams. 
 O. G. Addleman. 
 Walter McC. Allen. 
 A. A. Anderson. 
 *Jas. H. Anderson. 
 Oscar Ansell. 
 W. P. Armstrong. 
 O. B. Babcock. 
 L. L. Bacchus. 
 Raymond V. Bahr. 
 Richard Ball. 
 John A. Barber. 
 H. E. Barker. 
 S. A. Barker. 
 James H. Barkley. 
 A. J. Barnes. 
 Edgar S. Barnes. 
 W. B. Barry. 
 Geo. A. Bates. 
 Chas. T. Baumann. 
 R. J. Beck. 
 H. S. Beckemeyer. 
 Geo. H. Becker. 
 Victor E. Bender. 
 Robert L/. Berry. 
 Chas. T. Bisch. 
 Harold P. Bisch. 
 John W. Black. 
 Ira B. Blackstock. 
 Francis G. Blair. 
 Harrison C. Blankmeyer. 
 Frank H. Bode. 
 Alfred Booth. 
 C. M. Bowcock. 
 Archibald L. Bowen. 
 W. L. Bowlus. 
 Wm. A. Bradford. 
 Jas. L. Brainerd. 
 
 * Deceased. 
 
 Charles Bressmer. 
 John Bressmer. 
 John E. Bretz. 
 John F. Bretz. 
 Geo. M. Brinkerhoff, Sr. 
 Geo. M. Brinkerhoff, Jr. 
 John H. Brinkerhoff. 
 Stuart Broadwell. 
 A. Campbell Brown. 
 C. E. Brown. 
 Milton Hay Brown. 
 Owsley Brown. 
 Robert C. Brown. 
 Stuart Brown. 
 W. H. Bruce. 
 Fred Buck. 
 E. H. Buckley. 
 Samuel A. Bullard. 
 Wm. A. M. Bunker. 
 Geo. W. Bunn. 
 Henry Bunn. 
 Jacob Bunn. 
 John W. Bunn. 
 Joseph F. Bunn. 
 Willard Bunn. 
 Edmund Burke. 
 Sainl. T. Burnett. 
 \Vm. G. Burns. 
 William J. Butler. 
 J. F. Cadwallader. 
 E. E. Cantrall. 
 C. C. Carroll. 
 *Noah M. Cass. 
 Stanley Castle. 
 E. L. Chapin. 
 Geo. W. Chatterton. Sr. 
 Henry L. Child. 
 Robt. A. Clarkson 
 George E. Coe. 
 
 vii
 
 Louis J. Coe. 
 Harry E. Coe. 
 E. R. Coggswell. 
 Nathan Cole. 
 L. H. Coleman. 
 Logan Coleman. 
 Louis G. Coleman. 
 J. H. Collins. 
 Clinton L. Conkling. 
 Wm. H. Oonkling. 
 J. Fleetwood Connelly, 
 James A. Connolly. 
 Robert Connolly. 
 . A. E. Converse. 
 
 A. L. Converse. 
 Henry A. Converse. 
 Wm. O. Converse. 
 Thomas Condell. 
 
 T. J. Condon. 
 W. H. Conway. 
 .Tas. L. Cook. 
 John C. Cook. 
 James A. Creighton. 
 *A. N. J. Crook. 
 Shelby M. Cullom. 
 L. A. Danner. 
 Gaylord Davidson. 
 Henry Davis. 
 J. McCan Davis. 
 Geo. Edward Day. 
 Don Deal. 
 T. E. Dempcy. 
 Charles S. Deneen. 
 V. E. Desnoyers. 
 W. L. Desnoyers. 
 
 D. A. DeVares. 
 Frank S. Dickson. 
 Isaac R. Diller. 
 J. W. Diller. 
 Henry A. Dirksen. 
 Fred C. Dodds. 
 
 R. N. Dodds. 
 Thos. M. Dolan. 
 Harry F. Dorwin. 
 Shelby C. Dorwin. 
 James E. Dowling. 
 
 B. F. Drennan. 
 Lincoln Dubois. 
 Geo. C. Dunlop. 
 
 E. J. Dunn. 
 
 * Deceased. 
 
 James A. Easley. 
 R. H. Easley. 
 A. W. Edward. 
 Albert S. Edwards. 
 Richard Egan. 
 Anton Elshoff. 
 Emory Enuis. 
 James Fairlie. 
 Joseph Farris. 
 D. Frank Fawcett. 
 Clarence W. Feaster. 
 J. H. Feltham. 
 William Fetzer. 
 Joel C. Fitch. 
 Frank R. Fisher. 
 C. A. Fiske. 
 Arthur M. Fitzgerald. 
 Ed. J. Flinn. 
 J. G. Fogarty. 
 John L. Fortado. 
 John J. Foster. 
 Carl D. Franke. 
 John B. Franz. 
 
 C. A. Frazee. 
 
 D. C. Frederick. 
 James Furlong. 
 M. B. Garber. 
 G. J. George. 
 Cornelius J. Giblin. 
 George B. Gillespie. 
 Frank Godley. 
 Hugh J. Graham. 
 James M. Graham. 
 John H. Green. 
 
 I. L. Greene. 
 R. A. Guest. 
 Rudolph Haas. 
 A. Lee Hagler. 
 Elmer E. Hagler. 
 Nathan Halderman. 
 
 E. A. Hall. 
 James A. Hall. 
 Wathen Hamilton. 
 C. F. Handshy. 
 Saml. J. Hanes. 
 Wm. B. Hankins. 
 
 *Edw. F. Hartman. 
 Frank L. Hatch. 
 Pascal E. Hatch. 
 Robt. E. Hatcher. 
 
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 L'harles E. Hay. 
 Logan Hay. 
 E. F. Hazell. 
 Ernest H. Helmle. 
 George B. Helmle. 
 J. C. Helper. 
 G. B. Hemenway. 
 J. E. Hemmick. 
 
 A. L. Hereford. 
 R. F. Herndon. 
 
 Rev. Timothy Hickey. 
 George C. Hickox. 
 Howard T. Hicks. 
 
 B. R. Hieronymus. 
 Adelbert P. Higley. 
 Alonzo Hoff. 
 
 J. H. Holbrook. 
 W. J. Horn. 
 W. M. Howard. 
 James L. Hudson. 
 Ridgely Hudson. 
 Arthur F. Hughes. 
 J. Otis Humphrey. 
 Otis S. Humphrey. 
 R. G. Hunn. 
 Charles H. Hurst. 
 Harry L. Ide. 
 Roy Ide. 
 Edwin F. Irwin. 
 Horace C. Irwin. 
 W. M. Jageiran. 
 A. C. James. 
 Frank R. Jamison. 
 William Jayne. 
 James W. Jefferson. 
 Roy T. Jefferson. 
 Wm. B. Jess. 
 Edward S. Johnson. 
 James A. Jones. 
 James T. Jones. 
 M. A. Jones. 
 Strother T. Jones. 
 Charles P. Kane. 
 Alvin S. Keys. 
 Edward D. Keys. 
 Edward L. Keys. 
 George E. Keys. 
 John M. Kimble. 
 Richard F. Kinsella. 
 Ben M. Kirlin. 
 
 Carl Klaholt. 
 Benjamin Knudson. 
 Geo. N. Kreider. 
 Frank T. Kuhl. 
 B. A. Lange. 
 Geo. C. Latham. 
 Henry C. Latham. 
 
 F. M. Legg. 
 Jerome A. Leland. 
 Warren E. Lewis. 
 Gersham J. Little. 
 
 G. L. Lloyd. 
 John H. Lloyd. 
 Rev. T. D. Logan. 
 E. F. Lomelino. 
 Fred W. Long. 
 Harry T. Loper. 
 J. H. Lord. 
 
 "John S. Lord. 
 Henry B. Lubbe. 
 T. B. Luby. 
 John Lutz. 
 Thos. E. Lyon. 
 Arthur D. Mackie. 
 Alex. B. Macpherson. 
 J. F. Macpherson. 
 Charles J. Maldaner. 
 James M. Margrave. 
 William Marlowe. 
 John D. Marney. 
 H. W. Masters. 
 Robert Matheny. 
 James H. Matheny. 
 Rodman C. O. Matheny. 
 A. F. Maurer. 
 O. F. Maxon. 
 R. H. McAnulty. 
 Plato McCourtney. 
 John McCreery. 
 James S. McCullough. 
 Frank M. McGowan. 
 Harry O. McGrue. 
 J. F. McLennan. 
 Henry B. McVeigh. 
 John E. Melick. 
 H. M. Merriam. 
 J. F. Miller. 
 L. S. Miller. 
 Charles F. Mills. 
 Lewis H. Miner. 
 
 * Deceased.
 
 W. H. Minton. 
 John P. Mockler. 
 C. F. Mortimer. 
 S. E. Munson. 
 P. F. Murphy. 
 
 C. R. Murray. 
 Geo. W. Murray. 
 Thos. J. Murray. 
 Albert Myers. 
 Louis H. Myers. 
 W. H. Nelms. 
 Harry W. Nickey. 
 W. A. Northcott. 
 P. J. O'Reilly. 
 
 *Alfred Orendorff. 
 James R. Orr. 
 W. A. Orr. 
 E. W. Osborne. 
 James H. Paddock. 
 H. C. Page. 
 Geo. Thomas Palmer. 
 George Pasfield, Sr. 
 George Pasfield, Jr. 
 Warren E. Partridge. 
 Charles L. Patton. 
 James W. Patton. 
 William L. Patton. 
 Wm. A. Pavey. 
 Edward W. Payne. 
 Jesse K. Pay ton. 
 A. T. Peters. 
 
 D. Lyman Phillips. 
 Robt. J. Phillips. 
 Herman Pierik. 
 John C. Pierik. 
 
 A. C. Piersel. 
 John Pope. 
 A. J. Portch. 
 Fred W. Potter. 
 Rufus M. Potts. 
 Charles A. Power. 
 H. T. Pride. 
 Arthur E. Prince. 
 *John A. Prince. 
 Edgar C. Pruitt. 
 Henry G. Pyle. 
 G. W. Quackenbush. 
 John Quinlan. 
 John P. Ramsey. 
 Albert H. Rankin. 
 
 Isaac N. Ransom. 
 
 Verne Ray. 
 
 Horace S. Rearden. 
 
 Roy R. Reece. 
 
 Thomas Rees. 
 
 Carl M. Reisch. 
 
 Edward Reisch. 
 
 Frank Reisch. 
 
 George Reisch. 
 
 George Reisch, Jr. 
 
 Joseph Reisch. 
 
 Leonard Reisch. 
 
 Henry C. Remann. 
 
 Benjamin Rich. 
 
 Franklin Ridgely. 
 
 William Ridgley. 
 
 Chas. D. Roberts. 
 
 Nicholas Roberts. 
 
 Chas. H. Robinson. 
 
 Edward S. Robinson. 
 
 W. E. Robinson. 
 
 Roy F. Rogers. 
 
 John D. Roper. 
 
 James A. Rose. 
 
 C. H. Rottger. 
 
 Albert Salzenstein. 
 
 Emanuel Salzensteiu. 
 
 L. J. Samuels. 
 
 M. D. Schaff. 
 
 G. H. Schonbacher. 
 
 F. L. Schlierbach. 
 
 Emil G. Schmidt. 
 
 John S. Schnepp. 
 
 J. B. Scholes. 
 
 Saml. D. Scholes, Jr. 
 
 Charles Schuck. 
 
 C. W. H. Schuck. 
 
 J. H. Schuck. 
 
 Edgar S. Scott. 
 
 John W. Scott. 
 
 O. G. Scott. 
 *Thornas W. Scott. 
 
 Roy M. Seeley. 
 
 Richings J. Shand. 
 
 William Sheehan. 
 
 Lawrence Y. Sherman. 
 *Chas. M. Shepherd. 
 
 Wm. B. Shepherd. 
 
 Clark B. Shipp. 
 
 John H. Si'ses. 
 
 * Deceased.
 
 A. W. Sikking. 
 Frank Simmons. 
 Geo. M. Skelly. 
 Dewit W. Smith. 
 E. S. Smith. 
 Glen D. Smith. 
 Hal M. Smith. 
 Wm. W. Smith. 
 E. A. Snively. 
 H. M. Solenberger. 
 W. C. Sommer. 
 Latham T. Souther. 
 J. W. Southwick. 
 W. J. Spaulding. 
 E. A. Stadden. 
 Geo. B. Stadden. 
 W. 0. Starck. 
 Wm. H. Stead. 
 Geo. F. Stericker. 
 Albert D. Stevens. 
 "Henry A. Stevens. 
 J. H. Story. 
 Sam'l J. Stout. 
 R. H. Strongman. 
 J. W. Stuart. 
 Thos. W. Sudduth. 
 R. M. Sullivan. 
 Wm. H. Sullivan. 
 W. W. Swett, Jr. 
 H. G. Swirles. 
 J. Mack Tanner. 
 Louis G. Taylor. 
 Will Taylor. 
 E. R. Thayer. 
 James W. Templeman. 
 W. A. Townsend. 
 Wm. W. Tracey. 
 H. H. Tuttle. 
 Joseph W. Vance. 
 
 Burke Vancil. 
 Jas. R. B. VanCleave. 
 Walter S. Van Duyn. 
 Peter Vredenburgh, Sr. 
 Robert O. Vredenburg. 
 Thos. D. Vredenburg. 
 Wm. R. Vredenburg. 
 C. H. Walters. 
 J. C. Walters. 
 Philip B. Warren. 
 Howard K. Weber. 
 Frank Weidlocher. 
 Charles Werner. 
 Charles R. Wescott. 
 Loren E. Wheeler. 
 Frank D. Whipp. 
 J. E. White. 
 Henry C. Whittemore. 
 Charles S. Whitney. 
 Lewis N. Wiggins. 
 Harry T. Willett. 
 Samuel J. Willett. 
 Daniel T. Williams. 
 Bluford Wilson. 
 G. M. Wilson. 
 H. Clay Wilson. 
 Henry W. Wilson. 
 J. F. Wilson. 
 Thomas W. Wilson. 
 Chas. G. Wineteer. 
 T. E. Wing. 
 C. M. Woods. 
 W. F. Workman. 
 Richard Yates. 
 John York. 
 W. A. Young. 
 William Zapf. 
 Joseph Zimmerman. 
 Chas. W. Zumbrook. 
 
 * Deceased.
 
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 1B03-1912 
 
 I NVOCATION 
 
 INTRODUCTION ... THE HONORABLE J.OTIS HUMPHREY 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN - THE HONORABLE HENRY CABOT LODGE 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN ... TH E HON ORABLE FRAN K B. Wl LLI5 
 
 THE MAN OF OHIO
 
 Etnrnln (Etttttttntal A000riatt0n 
 
 OBJECT 
 
 To properly observe the one hundredth anniversary of the 
 birth of Abraham Lincoln; to preserve to posterity the memory 
 of his words and works, and to stimulate the patriotism 
 of the youth of the land by appropriate annual exercises.
 
 The 
 
 -incoln Year Book 
 
 Containing 3mmortal 
 ot &bcaf)am Eincoln 
 
 Spoken and Written on Various Occasions, 
 Preceded by Appropriate Scripture Texts 
 and Followed by Choice Poetic Selections 
 for Each Day in the Year, with Special 
 Reference to Anniversary Dates. 
 
 Compiled by 
 
 ]. T. HOBSON. D D., LL.B. 
 
 Ninr.teen JIun-tred and Twelve 
 
 Prr.st of United Rrrthrrn Publishing Houn 
 
 Daytiin, Ohio
 
 Copyrisht by J. T. HOBSON 
 1907
 
 PREFACE 
 
 This volume is unique, there being nothing like it in the broad 
 field of Lincoln literature. It gives an insight to the mind and 
 heart of Mr. Lincoln in a new form. Following each date for the 
 calendar year there is an appropriate Scripture quotation, fol- 
 lowed by the immortal words of Abraham Lincoln, the page 
 closing with a choice poetic selection, all happily blended in simi- 
 lar lines of thought. 
 
 No irreverence is meant by quoting Scripture selections in con- 
 nection with the words of Mr. Lincoln, for he was a Bible student, 
 and often quoted from the Sacred Word. The authorized version 
 of Scripture is used, it being more familiar with the masses, and 
 was in exclusive use in Mr. Lincoln's day. 
 
 Mr. Lincoln was fond of poetic literature, particularly Shakes- 
 peare, and often recited and read from poetic authors for the 
 entertainment and benefit of his friends. 
 
 The selections from Mr. Lincoln's spoken or written words are 
 on a variety of subjects, under various circumstances, and at 
 different periods of his life. It will be noted that the headings 
 or topics chosen are his own words found in the selections that 
 follow. Other headings might have been given in many instances, 
 but such were chosen as would give the greatest variety. It 
 should be observed that the selections, covering so many years, 
 could not be arranged in chronological order in one calendar year 
 because of conflicting dates. 
 
 The reader should be familiar with Lincoln chronology as 
 given on page six, and also note the introductory words following 
 each heading, so as to understand whether Mr. Lincoln speaks as 
 a private citizen, lawyer, candidate, legislator, Congressman, or 
 as President of the United States. 
 
 The Scripture selections have been chosen with care, the words 
 of Lincoln carefully compiled from various sources, noted else- 
 where, while the poetic selections gathered from newspapers,
 
 magazines, pamphlets, and various books of poetry, form the 
 cream of poetic literature. The author of each poetic selection is 
 given when known to the compiler, but it is regretted that so 
 many appear anonymously. 
 
 While the plan of the book is for reading each day of the year, 
 yet the matter is appropriate and interesting for any time, and 
 for miscellaneous reading. In the rearrangement, attention has 
 been paid to appropriate selections for various anniversary occa- 
 sions, although the words were not always uttered on such 
 occasions. 
 
 Much time has been spent in gathering these selections, and in 
 their arrangement, but it has been a pleasure; and it is hoped 
 that many a pleasant hour will be spent in reading and studying 
 these three departments of literature the precious words of 
 Scripture, the immortal words of the great emancipator, and the 
 message of the muses. J. T. H.
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 I. Frontispiece. (Portrait of Abraham Lincoln.) 
 
 II. Title Page 1 
 
 III. Copyright Notice 2 
 
 IV. Preface 3, 4 
 
 V. Contents 5 
 
 VI. Chronology of Abraham Lincoln 6 
 
 VII. Anniversary Dates 7 
 
 VIII. Acknowledgment 8 
 
 IX. The Lincoln Year Book 9-374 
 
 X. Index to Selected Topics 375-378 
 
 XI. Index to Poetic Authors and Selections 379, 380 
 
 XII. Index to Scripture Quotations 381-383
 
 CHRONOLOGY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 
 
 Born in Hardin County, Kentucky, February 12, 1809. 
 
 Moved to Spencer County, Indiana, in 1816. 
 
 Death of his mother, Nancy, October 5, 1818. 
 
 Father married Sarah Bush Johnston, 1819. 
 
 Moved to Illinois in 1830. 
 
 Captain in Black Hawk War in 1832. 
 
 Appointed postmaster at New Salem, Illinois, in 1833. 
 
 Elected to Illinois Legislature in 1834, 1836, 1838, 1840. 
 
 Admitted to the bar in 1837. 
 
 Presidential elector on Whig ticket, 1840. 
 
 Married to Miss Mary Todd, November 4, 1842. 
 
 Elected to Congress in 1846, 1848. 
 
 Father, Thomas Lincoln, died January 17, 1851. 
 
 Canvassed Illinois for prohibition in 1855. 
 
 Debated with Stephen A. Douglas in 1858. 
 
 Nominated for President of United States at Chicago, May 16, 
 
 1860. 
 
 Elected President, November 6, 1860. 
 Inaugurated President, March 4, 1861. 
 Issued call for 75,000 volunteers, April 15, 1861. 
 Issued Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863. 
 Renominated for President, June, 1864. 
 Reflected President, November 8, 1864. 
 Reinaugurated President, March 4, 1865. 
 Shot by John Wilkes Booth, April 14, 1865. 
 Died April 15, 1865. 
 Buried at Springfield, Illinois, May 3, 1865.
 
 ANNIVERSARY DATES 
 
 Emancipation Day January 1 
 
 Ground Hog Day February 2 
 
 Lincoln's Birthday February 12 
 
 Valentine Day February 14 
 
 Washington's' Birthday February 22 
 
 Inauguration Day March 4 
 
 All Fools' Day April 1 
 
 Good Friday April 14 (1865) 
 
 Arbor Day April 22 
 
 Decoration Day May 30 
 
 Children's Day June 1 
 
 Flag Day June 14 
 
 Independence Day July 4 
 
 Labor Day September 5 
 
 Hallowe'en October 31 
 
 Thanksgiving Day November 24 (1864) 
 
 Forefathers' Day December 22 
 
 Christmas Day December 25
 
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 
 
 The compiler of this volume is chiefly indebted to the following 
 sources of information on Lincoln literature, with privilege of 
 using selections: 
 
 J. H. Barrett: "Life, Speeches, and Public Services of Abraham 
 Lincoln." 
 
 F. B. Carpenter: "Six months at the Yv'hite House." The Inde- 
 pendent, New York. 
 
 J. B. McClure: "Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln." Rhodes & 
 McClure Publishing Co., Chicago. 
 
 D. D. Thompson: "Abraham Lincoln, the First American." 
 Jennings & Graham, Cincinnati. 
 
 G. M. Van Buren: "Abraham Lincoln's Pen and Voice." The 
 Robert Clarke Co., Cincinnati. 
 
 Paul Selby: "Stories and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln." 
 Thompson & Thomas, Chicago. 
 
 John G. Nicolay: "Abraham Lincoln: A Short History." The 
 Century Co., New York. 
 
 C. M. Nichols: "Life of Abraham Lincoln." The Crowell Pub- 
 lishing Co., Springfield, Ohio. 
 
 McClure's Magazine, New York.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 1 (Emancipation Day) 
 
 He hath sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of 
 the prison to them that are bound. Isaiah 61 : 1. 
 
 fe&all be fut. 
 
 (Emancipation Proclamation, issued January 1, 1863, 
 setting at liberty four million slaves.) 
 
 By virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do 
 order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said 
 designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall 
 be free; and the Executive Government of the United States, 
 including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recog- 
 nize and maintain the freedom of such persons. . . . And upon 
 this, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the 
 Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate 
 judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God. 
 
 You freed the bondman -from his iron master, 
 You broke the strong and cruel chains he wore; 
 
 You saved the ship of state from foul disaster, 
 And brought her safe to shore. 
 
 Eugene J. Han.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 3 
 
 I have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men 
 that are in the earth. II. Samuel 7 : 9. 
 
 Jj2anu in 
 
 (To Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, on signing the Proc- 
 lamation.) 
 
 I have been shaking hands since nine o'clock this morning, and 
 my right hand is almost paralyzed. If my name ever goes into 
 history, it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it. If my 
 hand trembles when I sign the Proclamation, all who examine 
 the document hereafter will say, "He hesitated." 
 
 (To Mr. Col fax.) 
 
 The South had fair warning. I told them in September that 
 if they did not return to their duty I would strike at this pillar 
 of their strength. The promise must now be kept, and I shall 
 never recall one word. 
 
 (To Mr. F. B. Carpenter, in February, 1865.) 
 
 As affairs have turned, it is the central act of my Administra- 
 tion, and the greatest event of the nineteenth century. 
 
 Nature, they say, doth dote 
 And cannot make a man 
 Save on some worn-out plan, 
 Repeating us by rote: 
 
 For him her Old-World molds aside she threw, 
 And, choosing sweet clay from the breast 
 Of the unexhausted West, 
 With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, 
 Wise, steadfast in the. strength of God, and true. 
 
 Lowell. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 3 
 
 I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing : therefore 
 choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. Deuteronomy 30 : 19. 
 
 Qu0t SDie t&at t&e |2atfon Sgfg&t 
 
 (To Mr. George Thompson, the English anti-slavery orator.) 
 
 I did not consider that I had a right to touch the state institu- 
 tion of slavery until all other measures for restoring the Union 
 had failed. The paramount idea of the Constitution is the preser- 
 vation of the Union. It may not be specified in so many words, 
 but that this was the idea of its founders is evident, for, without 
 the Union, the Constitution would be worthless. It seems clear, 
 then, that in the last extremity, if any local institution threat- 
 ened the existence of the Union, the Executive could not hesitate 
 as to his duty. In our case the moment came when I felt that 
 slavery must die that the nation might live! I have sometimes 
 used the illustration in this connection of a man with a diseased 
 limb, and his surgeon. So long as there is a chance of the 
 patient's restoration the surgeon is solemnly bound to try to save 
 both life and limb; but when the crisis comes, and the limb must 
 be sacrificed as the only chance of saving the life, no honest man 
 will hesitate. 
 
 Thy name shall live while time endures, 
 
 And men shall say of thee, 
 "He saved the country from its foes, 
 
 And bade the slave be free." 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 4 
 
 A wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. Ecclesiastes 8 : 5. 
 
 Public Sentiment. 
 
 (To Mr. George Thompson. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 Many of my strongest supporters urged emancipation before I 
 thought it indispensable and, I may say, before I thought the 
 country ready for it. It is my conviction that, had the proclama- 
 tion been issued six months earlier than it was, public sentiment 
 would not have sustained it. The step, taken sooner, would not, 
 in my judgment, have been carried out. A man watches his pear- 
 tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let 
 him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and 
 tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls 
 into his lap! We have seen this great revolution in public senti- 
 ment slowly but surely progressing, so that, when final action 
 came, the opposition was not strong enough to defeat the purpose. 
 I can now solemnly assert that I have a clear conscience in regard 
 to my action on this momentous question. I have done what no 
 man could have helped doing, standing in my place. 
 
 Yes, this is he who ruled a world of men, 
 
 As might some prophet of elder day 
 
 Brooding above the tempest and the fray, 
 With deep-eyed thought, and more than mortal ken, 
 
 A power was his beyond the touch of art, 
 
 Or armed strength his pure and mighty heart. 
 
 Anonymous.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 5 
 
 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men. Galatians 
 6: 10. 
 
 SLmntstp and dlnibtrsal Suffrage. 
 
 (From a letter to General Wadsworth.) 
 
 You desire to know, in the event of our complete success in the 
 field, the same being followed by a loyal and cheerful submission 
 on the part of the South, if universal amnesty should not be 
 accompanied with universal suffrage. Now, since you know my 
 private inclination as to what terms should be granted to the 
 South in the contingency mentioned, I will here add that if our 
 success should be thus realized, followed by such desired results, 
 I cannot see, if universal amnesty is granted, how, under the cir- 
 cumstances, I can avoid exacting in return universal suffrage, or 
 at least suffrage on the basis of intelligence and military service. 
 
 In statesmen of heroic mold,, 
 
 His country's great high priest, 
 Whose human heart could still unfold 
 
 All things the great, the least; 
 Who proved to earth that simple trust 
 
 Is more than Norman Wood, 
 That he is crowned icho can he just, 
 
 The great must first he good. 
 
 Mary M. Adams
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 6 
 
 Render therefore to all their dues. Romans 13 : 7. 
 
 2Drmon3tratrti in Blood Ufjcir KiciJt to t&e Ballot 
 
 (To General Wadsworth. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 How to better the condition of the colored race has long been 
 a study which has attracted my serious and careful attention; 
 hence I think I am clear and decided as to what course I shall 
 pursue in the premises, regarding it a religious duty, as the 
 nation's guardian of these people who have so heroically vindi- 
 cated their manhood on the battlefield, where, in assisting to save 
 the life of the Republic, they have demonstrated in blood their 
 right to the ballot, which is but the humane protection of the 
 flag they have so fearlessly defended. 
 
 A tetter day is coming, a morning promised long, 
 
 When girded Right, with holy Might, will overthrow the wrong; 
 
 When God the Lord will listen to every plaintive sigh, 
 
 And stretch his hand o'er every land with Justice by and by. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 7 
 
 would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause. Job. 5 : 8. 
 
 r f)f Cau0r ot $$? Country. 
 
 (From a speech at Springfield, Illinois, in 1840.) 
 
 Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose 
 hers; but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was 
 the last to desert, but that I never deserted her. If I ever feel the 
 soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly 
 unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate 
 the cause of my country deserted by all the world beside, and I, 
 standing up boldly and alone, hurling defiance at her victorious 
 oppressors. And here, without contemplating consequences, be- 
 fore high Heaven and in the face of the whole world, I swear 
 eternal fidelity to the just cause, as I deem it, of the land of my 
 life, my liberty, and my love. And who that thinks with me will 
 not fearlessly adopt the oath I take? 
 
 Man, throughout all agea of revolving time. 
 Unchanging man, in every varying clime, 
 Deems his own land of every land the pride, 
 Belored by Heaven o'er all the world beside; 
 His home the spot of earth supremely blest, 
 4. dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. 
 
 James Montgomery. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 8 
 
 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words. Ecclesiastes 12 : 10. 
 
 in Eanguage. 
 
 (To Rev. J. P. Gulliver, in the early part of 1860.) 
 
 I can remember going to my little bedroom, after hearing the 
 neighbors talk of an evening with my father, and spending no 
 small part of the night walking up and down, and trying to make 
 out what was the exact meaning of some of their, to me, dark 
 sayings. I could not sleep, though I often tried to, when I got 
 on such a hunt after an idea, until I had caught it; and when I 
 thought I had got it, I was not satisfied until I had repeated it 
 over and over, until I had put it in language plain enough, as I 
 thought, for anybody I knew to comprehend. This was a kind of 
 passion with me, and it has stuck to me; for I am never easy 
 now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, 
 and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west. 
 
 The heights by great men gained and kept 
 Were not attained by sudden flight, 
 
 But they while their companions slept 
 Were toiling upward in the night. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 9 
 
 A false balance is abomination to the Lord : but a just weight is his 
 delight. Proverbs 11 : 1. 
 
 (Said to Mr. Herndon, his law partner in Springfield, after 
 throwing a book on the table.) 
 
 No, sir, I 've read enough of it. It is like all the others. 
 Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but 
 false. The author of that Life of Burke makes a wonderful hero 
 out of his subject. He magnifies his perfections, and suppresses 
 his imperfections. He is so faithful in his zeal, and so lavish in 
 his praise of his every act, that one is almost driven to believe 
 that Burke never made a mistake or failure in his life. Billy, 
 I 've wondered why book publishers and merchants don't have 
 blank biographies on their shelves, ready for an emergency; so 
 that if a man happens to die, his heirs or his friends, if they 
 wish to perpetuate his memory, can purchase one already written, 
 but with blanks. These blanks they can fill up at their pleasure 
 with rosy sentences full of high-sounding praise. In most in- 
 stances they commemorate a lie, and cheat posterity out of the 
 truth. 
 
 Historians, only things of weight, 
 Results of persons, or affairs of state, 
 Briefly, icith truth and clearness should relate: 
 Laconic shortness memory feeds. 
 
 Heath. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 10 
 
 Oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless. Zechariah 7 : 10. 
 
 &ome TOnctf Hegallp IBUgjjt J!2ot ei^orallp Kigljt. 
 
 (Said to a man who had an undesirable case.) 
 
 Yes, we can doubtless gain your case for you; we can set a 
 whole neighborhood at loggerheads; we can distress a widowed 
 mother and her six fatherless children, and thereby get for you 
 six hundred dollars to which you seem to have a legal claim, but 
 which rightly belongs, it appears to me, as much to the woman 
 and children as it does to you. You must remember that some 
 things legally right are not morally right. We shall not take 
 your case, but will give you a little advice for which we will 
 charge you nothing. You seem to be a sprightly, energetic man; 
 we would advise you to try your hand at making six hundred 
 dollars in some other way. 
 
 We get back our mete a# we measure 
 
 We cannot do wrong and feel right, 
 yor can we give pain and gain pleasure 
 
 For justice avenges each slight. 
 The air for the icing of the sparrow, 
 
 The bush for the robin and wren, 
 But alway the path that is narrow 
 
 And straight, for the children of men. 
 
 Alice Gary. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 11 
 
 Every man with his staff In his hand. Zechariah 8 : 4. 
 
 Character in Canrg. 
 
 (Addressed to a gentleman calling at the White House, 
 with a cane, which the President held in his hand while he 
 spoke. ) 
 
 I always carried a cane when I was a boy. It was a freak of 
 mine. My favorite one was a knotted beech stick, and I carved 
 the head myself. There 's a mighty amount of character in sticks; 
 don't you think so? You have seen these fishing poles that fit 
 into a cane? Well, that was an old idea of mine. Dogwood clubs 
 were favorite ones with the boys. I suppose they use them yet. 
 Hickory is too heavy unless you get it from a young sapling. 
 Have you ever noticed how a stick in one's hands will change in 
 appearance? 
 
 A peaceful life just toil and rest 
 
 All his desire 
 To read the books he liked the best 
 
 Beside the cabin fire; 
 God's Word and man's; to peer sometimes 
 
 Above the page in smouldering gleams, 
 And catch, like far heroic rhymes, 
 
 The onward march of his dreams. 
 
 A peaceful life to hear the loic 
 
 Of pastured herds, 
 Or woodman's ax that, blow on blow, 
 
 Fell sweet as rhythmic words. 
 And yet there stirred within his breast 
 
 A fateful pulse that, like a roll 
 Of drums, made high above his rest 
 
 A tumult in his soul. 
 
 James Whitcomb Riley. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 12 
 
 There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall 
 there be any more pain : for the former things are passed away. Revela- 
 tion 21 : 4. 
 
 (Written to his stepbrother, John Johnson, January 12, 
 1851. Thomas Lincoln died January 17, 1851.) 
 
 I sincerely hope father may yet recover his health; but at all 
 events tell him to remember to call upon and confide in our great 
 and good and merciful Maker, who will not turn away from him 
 in any extremity. He notes the fall of a sparrow, and numbers 
 the hairs of our heads; and he will not forget the dying man who 
 puts his trust in him. Say to him, that if we could meet now it 
 is doubtful whether it would not be more painful than pleasant; 
 but that if it be his lot to go now, he will soon have a joyful 
 meeting with loved ones gone before, and where the rest of us, 
 through the help of God, hope ere long to join them. 
 
 Oh, how sweet it will be in that "beautiful land, 
 
 So free from all sorrow and pain; 
 With songs on our lips, and with harps in our hands, 
 
 To meet one another again. 
 
 Mrs. Ellen H. Gates. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 13 
 
 Be strong and of a good courage ; be not afraid, neither be thou dis- 
 mayed : for the Lord thy God is with thee. Joshua 1 : 9. 
 
 SDtato. 
 
 (Delivered In the Court House at Springfield, Illinois, in 
 1855, to an audience of only three persons. Mr. Herndon 
 got out huge posters announcing the event, employed a band 
 to drum up a crowd, and bells were rung. Mr. Lincoln was 
 to have spoken on the slavery question.) 
 
 GENTLEMEN: This meeting is larger than I knew it would be, 
 as I knew Herndon and myself would be here; and yet another 
 one has come you, John Pain [the janitor]. These are bad times, 
 and seem out of joint. All seems dead, dead, DEAD; but the age 
 is not yet dead; it liveth as sure as our Maker liveth. Under all 
 this seeming want of life and motion, the world does move never- 
 theless. Be hopeful. And now let us adjourn and appeal to the 
 people. 
 
 'Press on ! there 's no such word as fail ; 
 
 Press nobly on! the goal is near 
 Ascend the mountain! breast the gale! 
 
 Look upward, onward never fear! 
 Why shouldst thou faint f Heaven smiles above, 
 
 Though storm and vapor intervene; 
 The sun shines on, whose name is Love, 
 
 Serenely o'er life's shadotc'd scene. 
 
 'Press on! if Fortune play thee false 
 To-day, to-morrow she'll be true; 
 Whom now she sinks she now exalts, 
 Taking old gifts and granting new. 
 The wisdom of the present hour 
 
 Makes up for follies past and gone; 
 To weakness strength succeeds, and power 
 From frailty springs press on ! press on !" 
 
 Park Benjamin. 
 
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 JANUARY 14 
 
 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power. 
 Psalms 145 : 11. 
 
 SDoton of CtbH and HUUgfotttf 
 
 (Said after hearing a sermon by Rev. Dr. Peter Akers, 
 near Springfield, Illinois, In 1837.) 
 
 It was the most instructive sermon, and he is the most im- 
 pressive preacher I have ever heard. It is wonderful that God 
 has given such power to men. I firmly believe his interpretation 
 of prophecy, so far as I understand it, and especially about the 
 breaking down of civil and religious tyrannies; and, odd as it 
 may seem, when he described those changes and revolutions, I 
 was deeply impressed that I should be somehow strangely mixed 
 up with them. 
 
 80 he grew up, a destined work to do, 
 
 And lived to do it; four long suffering years, 
 
 III fate, ill feeling, ill report lived through, 
 
 And then he heard the hisses change to cheers, 
 
 The taunts to tribute, the abuse to praise. 
 
 And took both with the same unwavering mood; 
 
 Till, as he came forth from the darkling days, 
 And seemed to touch the goal from where he stood. 
 
 Tom Taylor. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JAXFARY 15 
 
 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doc- 
 trine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. II. 
 Timothy 3 : 16. 
 
 3 If abe Cartfull? Kr at) t&e Bible. 
 
 (To Mr. Newton Bateman, Superintendent of Public In- 
 struction of Illinois, in looking over a book containing the 
 canvass of Springfield voters in 1860.) 
 
 Here are twenty-.three ministers of different denominations, 
 and all of them are against me but three, and here are a great 
 many prominent members of churches, a very large majority are 
 against me. Mr. Bateman, I am not a Christian. God knows I 
 would be one but I have carefully read the Bible, and I do not 
 so understand this book [he drew forth a pocket New Testament]. 
 These men well know that I am for freedom in the Territories, 
 freedom everywhere, as free as the Constitution and the laws will 
 permit, and that my opponents are for slavery. They know this, 
 and yet with this book in their hands, In the light of which 
 human bondage cannot live a moment, they are going to vote 
 against me! I do not understand it at all. 
 
 Within this ample volume lies 
 The mystery of mysteries. 
 Happiest they of the human race, 
 To whom their God has given grace 
 To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, 
 To lift the latch, to force the way; 
 And better had they ne'er been born, 
 That read to doubt, or read to scorn, 
 
 Sir Walter Scott.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 16 
 
 God Is our refuge and strength, a very present help In trouble. Psalms 
 46:1. 
 
 3 
 
 (To Mr. Bateman. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 I know there is a God, and that he hates injustice and slavery. 
 I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If 
 he has a place and work for me, and I think he has, I believe I 
 am ready. I am nothing, but Truth is everything. I know I am 
 right, because I know that liberty is right, for Christ teaches it, 
 and Christ is God. I have told them that "a house divided against 
 itself cannot stand"; and Christ and reason say the same; and 
 they will find it so. Douglas doesn't care whether slavery is 
 voted up or down, but God cares, and humanity cares, and I care; 
 but it will come, and I shall be vindicated; and these men will 
 find that they have not read their Bibles right. 
 
 I, the Lord, am with thee. be not thou afraid; 
 I will help and strengthen, be thou not dismayed. 
 Yea, I will uphold thee with my oicn right hand; 
 Thou art called and chosen in my sight to stand. 
 
 Frances Ridley Harergal.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 17 
 
 Their rock is not our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 
 Deuteronomy 32 : 31. 
 
 r df)i<3 Eocfe on OOljid) 3 
 
 (To Mr. Bateman. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 Doesn't it seem strange that men can ignore the moral aspect 
 of this contest? A revelation could not make it plainer to me 
 that slavery or the Government must be destroyed. The future 
 would be something awful, as I look at it, but for this rock on 
 which I stand [alluding to the New Testament, ^vhich he still 
 held in his hand], especially with, the knowledge of how these 
 ministers are going to vote. It seems as if God had borne with 
 this thing [slavery] until the teachers of religion have come to 
 defend it from the Bible, and to claim for it a divine character 
 and sanction; and now the cup of iniquity is full, and the vials of 
 wrath will be poured out. 
 
 But patient struggling in the right, 
 And suffering wrong that right may win, 
 
 Achieves the victory final, bright, 
 O'er foes without and fears within. 
 It must be so, for right must win, 
 Since God is God and sin is sin. 
 
 Milton.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 18 
 
 Fear not, Abram : I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. 
 Genesis 15 : 1. 
 
 Jn t&e (Batten of (Bet|)0emane. 
 
 (Said to Judge Gillespie at Lincoln's home in Springfield, 
 Illinois, January, 1861.) 
 
 Gillespie, I would willingly take out of my life a period in 
 years equal to the two months which intervene between now and 
 my inauguration. Because every hour adds to the difficulties I 
 am called upon to meet, and the present administration does 
 nothing to check the tendency towards dissolution. I, who have 
 been called to meet this awful responsibility, am compelled to 
 remain here, doing nothing to avert it or lessen its force when 
 it comes to me. I see the duty devolving upon me. I have read 
 upon my knees the story of Gethsemane, when the Son of God 
 prayed in vain that the cup of bitterness might pass from him. 
 I am in the Garden of Gethsemane now, and my cup of bitterness 
 is full to overflowing. 
 
 Each one has his Gethsemane; for each there is a dan 
 When he shall halt, fear-stricken by the darkness in the way; 
 When he, faint-hearted, weary of the griefs he j/et must bear, 
 Shall turn aside into the shad-e and soothing calmness there 
 Shall turn aside and bow his head, and on his bended knees 
 Pray that he may not take the cup and drain it to the lees. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 JANUARY 19 
 
 All nations shall call you blessed. Malaehi 3 : 12. 
 
 Perpetual Peace and j?rirnb0f)ip. 
 
 (Extracts from a letter written January 19, 1863, in reply 
 to a testimonial of sympathy and confidence from the work- 
 ingmen of Manchester, England.) 
 
 When I came on the 4th of March, 1861, through a free and con- 
 stitutional election, to preside in the government of the United 
 States, the country was found at the verge of civil war. What- 
 ever might have been the cause, or whosoever the fault, one duty 
 paramount to all others was before me, namely, to maintain and 
 preserve at once the Constitution and the Federal Republic. A 
 conscientious purpose to perform this duty is the key to all the 
 measures of administration which have been, and to all which 
 will hereafter be pursued. ... It is now a pleasant duty to 
 acknowledge the demonstration you have given of your desire 
 that a spirit of peace and amity toward this country may prevail 
 in the councils of your Queen, who is respected and esteemed in 
 your own country only more than she is by the kindred nation 
 which has its home on this side of the Atlantic. ... I hail this 
 interchange of sentiment, therefore, as an augury that, whatever 
 else may happen, whatever misfortune may befall your country 
 or my own, the peace and friendship which now exist between 
 the two nations will be, as it shall be my desire to make them, 
 perpetual. 
 
 Columbia, child of Britain noblest child; 
 
 I praise the glowing luster of thy youth, 
 And fain would sec thy great heart reconciled 
 
 To love the mother of so blest a 'birth: 
 For we are one Columbia! still the same 
 Tn lineage, language, and ancient fame, 
 
 The natural nobility of earth. 
 
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 JANUARY 20 
 
 The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord. 
 Revelation 11 : 15. 
 
 anto fetoetien. 
 
 (Reply to speech of minister representing the Kingdom of 
 Norway and Sweden, January 20, 1865.) 
 
 My memory does not recall an instance of disagreement be- 
 tween Sweden and the United States. Your predecessor was most 
 agreeable in his intercourses with this Government, and I greet 
 you with the same good feeling which was entertained for him 
 while he resided with us. ... You may be assured that on my 
 part every occasion will be improved to exhibit the sincere desire 
 which this Government entertains for the prosperity and welfare 
 of the Government and Kingdom of Sweden and Norway. 
 
 America! the sound is like a sword 
 
 To smite th' oppressor / like a loving word 
 
 To cheer the suffering people, while they pray 
 
 That God would hasten on the promised day 
 
 When earth shall be like heaven, and men shall stand 
 
 Like brothers round an altar, hand in hand. 
 
 Oh! ever thus, America, be strong 
 
 Like cataracts' thunder pour the freeman's song, 
 
 Till struggling Europe join-s the glad refrain. 
 
 And startled Asia bursts the despot's chain; 
 
 And Africa's manumitted sons, from thee 
 
 To their own fatherland shall bear the song 
 
 Worth all their toils and tears of Liberty: 
 
 For these good deeds, America, be strong! 
 
 Mrs. Hale. 
 
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 JANUARY 21 
 
 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. Titus 2 : 6. 
 
 t&e goung 
 
 (Reported by W. H. Herndon.) 
 
 Now, as to the youg men. You must not wait to be brought 
 forward by the older men. For instance, do you suppose that I 
 should ever have got into notice if I had waited to be hunted up 
 and pushed forward by older men? The way for a young man 
 to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting 
 that anybody wishes to hinder him. Allow me to assure you that 
 suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. 
 There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young 
 man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to 
 be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted 
 injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every 
 person you have ever known to fall into it. 
 
 Let, us then, be up and doing, 
 With a heart for any fate; 
 
 Still achieving, still pursuing, 
 Learn to labor and to wait. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
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 JANUARY 22 
 
 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Mat- 
 thew 22 : 40. 
 
 &abior'0 Confttngiti ^tatnucni. 
 
 (To Honorable H. C. Deming, of Connecticut.) 
 
 I have never united myself to any church, because I have found 
 difficulty in giving my assent, without mental reservation, to the 
 long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which char- 
 acterize their Articles of Belief and Confessions of Faith. When 
 any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification of 
 membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance 
 of both law and gospel, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with 
 all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and 
 thy neighbor as thyself," that church will I join with all my 
 heart and all my soul. 
 
 Had I the tongue of Greeks and Jews, 
 And nobler speech than angels use; 
 If love be absent, I am found, 
 Like tinkling brass, an empty sound. 
 If love to God, and love to man 
 Be absent, all my hopes are vain; 
 Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor flery zeal 
 The work of love can e'er fulfil. 
 
 Watts. 
 
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 JANUARY 23 
 
 Wisdom is better than weapons of war. Ecclesiastes 9 : 18. 
 
 Si Solitary 
 
 (Lincoln was a captain in the Black Hawk war of 1832. 
 The following humorous speech was delivered in Congress in 
 1848 by way of sarcasm on the efforts of General Cass's 
 friends to render him conspicuous as a military hero. Cass 
 was a candidate for President of the United States.) 
 
 By the way, Mr. Speaker, did you know that I am a military 
 hero? Yes, sir, in the days of the Black Hawk War I fought, 
 bled, and came away. Speaking of General Cass's career reminds 
 me of my own. I was not at Stillman's defeat, but I was about 
 as near it as Cass to Hull's surrender; and, like him, I saw the 
 place very soon afterward. It is quite certain I did not break 
 my sword, for I had none to break; but I bent a musket pretty 
 badly on one occasion. If Cass broke his sword, the idea is that 
 he broke it in desperation; I bent the musket by accident. If 
 General Cass went in advance of me in picking whortleberries, I 
 guess I surpassed him in charges upon the wild onions. If he 
 saw any live fighting Indians, it was more than I did, but I had 
 a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes; and although 
 I never fainted from loss of blood, I can truly say that I was 
 often hungry. Mr. Speaker, if I should ever conclude to doff 
 whatever our Democratic friends may suppose there is of black- 
 cockade Federalism about me, and, thereupon, they should take 
 me up as their candidate for the Presidency, I protest that they 
 shall not make fun of me, as they have of General Cass, by 
 attempting to write me into a military hero. 
 
 Chosen for large designs, he had the art 
 
 Of winning with his humor, and he went 
 Straight to his mark, which was the human heart, 
 
 Wise, too, for what he could not break he bent. 
 
 R. H. Stoddard. 
 
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 JANUARY 24 
 
 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, 
 and the reason of things. Ecclesiastes 7 : 25. 
 
 (To Rev. J. P. Gulliver, in 1860.) 
 
 In the course of my law reading I constantly came upon the 
 word demonstrate. I thought at first I understood its meaning, 
 but soon became satisfied that I did not. I said to myself, "What 
 do I mean when I demonstrate more than when I reason or 
 prove? How does demonstration differ from any other proof?" 
 I consulted Webster's Dictionary. That told me of "certain 
 proof," "proof beyond the possibility of doubt"; but I could form 
 no idea what sort of proof that was. I thought a great many 
 things were proved beyond a possibility of doubt, without re- 
 course to any such extraordinary process of reasoning as I under- 
 stood "demonstration" to be. I consulted all the dictionaries and 
 books of reference I could find, but with no better results. You 
 might as well have defined ~blue to a blind man. At last I said, 
 "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not know what 
 demonstrate means"; and I left my situation in Springfield, went 
 home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any 
 proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out 
 what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies. 
 
 The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one, 
 May hope to achieve it before life be done; 
 But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, 
 Only reaps from the hopes ichich around him he sows 
 A harvest of barren regrets. 
 
 Owen Meredith. 
 
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 JANUARY 25 
 
 Help those women which labored with me in the gospel. Philippians 4 : 3. 
 
 flfiiomen of &metfca. 
 
 (In reply to a delegation of ladies and gentlemen from 
 Philadelphia, who presented a vase of leaves from the battle- 
 field of Gettysburg, January 25, 1865.) 
 
 T accept, with emotions of profoundest gratitude, the beautiful 
 gift you have been pleased to present to me. You will, of course, 
 expect that I acknowledge it. So much has been said about 
 Gettysburg, and so well said, that for me to attempt to say any 
 more may, perhaps, only serve to weaken the force of that which 
 has already been said. A most graceful and eloquent tribute was 
 paid to the patriotism and self-denying labors of the America* 
 ladies, on the occasion of the consecration of the National Ceme- 
 tery at Gettysburg, by our illustrious friend, Ed,vard Everett, 
 now, alas! departed from earth. His life was truly a great one, 
 and I think the greatest part of it was that which crowned its 
 closing years. I wish you to read, if you have not already done 
 so, the glowing and eloquent and truthful words which he then 
 spoke of the women of America. Truly, the service they have 
 rendered to the defenders of our country in this perilous time, 
 and are yet rendering, can never be estimated as it ought to be. 
 For your kind wishes to me, personally, I beg leave to render you, 
 likewise, my sincerest thanks. I assure you they are recipro- 
 cated. And now, gentlemen and ladies, may God bless you all. 
 
 A perfect woman, nobly plann'd, 
 To warn, to comfort, and command; 
 And yet a spirit still and bright, 
 With something of an angel light. 
 
 Wordsioorth. 
 
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 JANUARY 26 
 
 Before honor is humility. Proverbs 15 : 33. 
 
 Candidate for 
 
 (First political speech delivered at Papsville, Illinois, in 
 1832, when twenty-three years of age, in announcing himself 
 as a Whig candidate for the Legislature, after a lengthy 
 speech by an opposing candidate.) 
 
 GENTLEMEN, FELLOW-CITIZENS: I presume you all know who I 
 am. I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by 
 many friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My 
 politics can be briefly stated. I am in favor of a national bank. 
 I am in favor of the internal improvement system, and a high 
 protective tariff. These are my sentiments and political prin- 
 ciples. If elected, I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the 
 same. 
 
 I may not reach the heights I seek, 
 
 My untried strength may fail me; 
 Or, half-way up the mountain peak, 
 
 Fierce tempest may assail me. 
 But though that place I never gain, 
 Herein lies comfort for my pain, 
 I will be worthy of it. 
 
 I may not triumph in success, 
 
 Despite my earnest labor; 
 I may not grasp results that bless 
 
 The efforts of my neighbor. 
 But though my goal I never see, 
 This thought shall always dwell with me 
 / will be worthy of it. 
 
 The golden glorv of love's light 
 May never fall upon my way; 
 My path may always lead through night, 
 
 Like some deserted by-way. 
 But though life's dearest joy I miss, 
 There lies a nameless joy in this 
 / will be worthy of it. 
 
 Ella Wheeler WUcox. 
 
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 JANUARY 27 
 
 This land shall fall unto you for inheritance. Ezekiel 47 : 14. 
 
 Jnijeritotg of f tmtiammtal 
 
 (Extract from an address delivered January 27, 1838, be- 
 fore the Young Men's Lyceum at Springfield, Illinois.) 
 
 In the great journal of things happening under the sun, the 
 American people find our account running under date of the nine- 
 teenth century of the Christian era. We find ourselves in peace- 
 ful possession of the fairest portion of the earth as regards extent 
 of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. We find 
 ourselves under the government of a system of political institu- 
 tions conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious 
 liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. 
 We find ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental bless- 
 ings. We toiled not in the acquirement nor the establishment of 
 them; they are a legacy bequeathed to us by a once hardy, brave, 
 and patriotic, but now lamented and departed race of ancestors. 
 
 Breathes there a man with soul so dead, 
 Who never to himself hath said: 
 
 "This is my own. my native landf" 
 Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned 
 As home his footsteps he hath turned 
 
 From wandering on a foreign strand f 
 
 Sir Walter Scott. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 28 
 
 The nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish. Isaiah 
 60 : 12. 
 
 %& ftpptoatf) of SDanger. 
 
 (Extract from the Springfield address In 1838. Continued 
 from preceding page.) 
 
 At what point shall be we expect the approach of danger? Shall 
 we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean ancl 
 crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and 
 Africa combined, with all the treasures of the earth (our own 
 excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a com- 
 mander, could not, by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make 
 a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At 
 what point, then, is this approach of danger to be expected? I 
 answer: If it ever reaches us, it must spring up amongst us. It 
 cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must 
 ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, v.e 
 must live through all time or die by suicide. 
 
 When our land is illumined with liberty's smile, 
 If a foe from within strike a blow at her glory, 
 
 Down, doicn with the traitor that dares to defile 
 
 The flag of her stars and the pane of her story ! 
 
 By the millions unchained who our birthright have gained, 
 
 We will keep her bright blazon forever unstained! 
 
 Francis Scott Key. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 29 
 
 Then Adonljah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be 
 king : and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run 
 before him. I. Kings 1 : 5. 
 
 (Efe ntug. 
 
 (Extract from Springfield address. Continued from pre- 
 ceding page.) 
 
 Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hith- 
 erto unexplored. It does not add story to story upon the monu- 
 ments of fame erected to the memory of others. It denies that it 
 is glory enough to serve under any chief. It scorns to tread in 
 the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts 
 and burns for distinction, and, if possible, will have it, whether 
 at the expense of emancipating slaves, or enslaving free men. 
 Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed with 
 the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to 
 its utmost stench, will at some time spring up among us? And 
 when such an one does, it will require the people to be united, 
 attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, 
 to successfully frustrate the design. 
 
 There is a line by us unseen, 
 
 That crosses every path; 
 The hidden boundary between 
 
 God's mercy and his wrath. 
 
 There is a time, we know not when, 
 
 A place, we know not where, 
 Which seals the destiny of men 
 
 To glory or despair. 
 
 Dr. Alexander. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 30 
 
 None of these things move me. neither count I my life dear unto my- 
 self, so that I might finish my course with joy. Acts 20 : 24. 
 
 3n t&e ^anfcg of tjje 
 
 (Interview published in the New York Tribune, January 
 30, 1861.) 
 
 I will suffer death before I will consent or advise my friends to 
 consent to any concession or compromise which looks like buying 
 the privilege of taking possession of the Government to which we 
 have a constitutional right; because, whatever I might think of 
 the merit of the various propositions before Congress, I should 
 regard any concession in the face of menace as the destruction of 
 the Government itself, and a consent on all hands that our system 
 shall be brought down to a level with the existing disorganized 
 state of affairs in Mexico. But this thing will hereafter be, as it 
 is now, in the hands of the people, and if they desire to call a 
 convention to remove any grievances complained of, or to give 
 new guarantees for the permanence of vested rights, it is not 
 mine to oppose. 
 
 God give us men! 
 
 A time like this demands 
 
 Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; 
 
 Men whom the lust of office does not kill ; 
 Men whom the spoils of, office cannot buy ; 
 
 Men who possess opinions and a will; 
 Men who have honor; men icho will not lie; 
 
 Men who can stand before a demagogue 
 And scorn his treacherous flatteries without winking; 
 
 Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog 
 In public duty and in private thinking. 
 
 J. G. Holland.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JANUARY 31 
 
 Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matthew 6 : 34. 
 
 jfa Kftrr. 
 
 (To a Springfield neighbor, a minister who wished to know 
 as to his future policy on the slavery question.) 
 
 You know Father B., the old Methodist preacher? and you 
 know Fox River and its freshets? Well, once in the presence of 
 Father B., a young Methodist was worrying about Fox River, and 
 expressing fears that he should be prevented from filling some 
 of his appointments by a freshet in the river. Father B. checked 
 him in his gravest manner. Said he, "Young man, I have always 
 made it a rule in my life not to cross Fox River till I get to it." 
 And I am not going to worry myself over the slavery question till 
 I get to it. 
 
 Too curious man, ichy dost thou seek to know 
 Events which, good or ill, foreknow-n, or woef 
 Th' all-seeing power that made thee mortal, gave 
 Thee everything a mortal state should have; 
 Foreknoicledge only is enjoy'd by heaven; 
 And, for his peace of mind, to man forbidden: 
 Wretched were life, if he foreknew his doom; 
 Even joys forseen give pleasing hope no room, 
 And griefs assur'd are felt before they come. 
 
 Drydcn. 
 
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 FEBRUARY 1 
 
 Seest thou a man diligent In his business? he sliall stand before kings; 
 he shall not stand before mean men. Proverbs 22 : 29. 
 
 C5ammrntiati0n0 from Eiterarp and Eearnrli 
 
 (To Rev. J. P. Gulliver, of Norwich, Connecticut, in 1860.) 
 
 A most extraordinary circumstance occurred in New Haven the 
 other day. They told me that the professor of rhetoric in Yale 
 College a very learned man, isn't he? well, he ought to be, at 
 any rate they told me that he came to hear me, and took notes 
 of my speech, and gave a lecture on it to his class the next day; 
 and not satis fi ed with that, he followed me up to Meriden the 
 next evening, and heard me again for the same purpose. Now, if 
 this is so, it is to my mind very extraordinary. I have been 
 sufficiently astonished at my success in the West. It has been 
 most unexpected. But I had no thought of any marked success 
 at the East, and least of all that I should draw out such com- 
 mendations from literary and learned men. 
 
 Lives of great men all remind us 
 
 We can make our lives sublime, 
 And, departing, leave behind us 
 
 Footprints on the sands of time; 
 Footprints, that perhaps another, 
 
 8a/iling o'er life's solemn main, 
 A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, 
 
 Seeing, may take heart again. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
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 FEBRUARY 2 (Ground Hog: Day) 
 
 A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Proverbs 22 : 3. 
 
 l&oot ^og;, or 2Dfe. 
 
 (In reply to Mr. Hunter, February 3, 1865, who stated 
 that as slaves were accustomed to work under compulsion, 
 by being suddenly freed It would bring ruin on the South, and 
 whites and blacks would starve together.) 
 
 I can only say, in reply to your statement of the case, that it 
 reminds me of a man out in Illinois, by the name of Case, who 
 undertook, a few years ago, to raise a very large herd of hogs. 
 It was a great trouble to feed them; and how to get around this 
 was a puzzle to him. At length he hit upon the plan of planting 
 an immense field of potatoes, and, when they were sufficiently 
 grown, he turned the whole herd into the field and let them have 
 full swing, thus saving not only the labor of feeding the hogs, 
 but that also of digging the potatoes! Charmed with his sagacity, 
 he stood one day leaning against the fence, counting his hogs, 
 when a neighbor came along. "Well, well," said he, "Mr. Case, 
 this is all very fine. Your hogs are doing very well just now; 
 but you know out here in Illinois the frost comes early, and the 
 ground freezes a foot deep. Then what are you going to do?" 
 This was a view of the matter which Mr. Case had not taken into 
 account. Butchering time for hogs was away on in December or 
 January. He scratched his head and at length stammered, "Well, 
 it may come pretty hard on their snouts, but I don't see but it 
 will be root, hog, or die." 
 
 Prudence, thou vainly in our youth art sought, 
 And with age purchas'd, art too dearly bought: 
 We 're past the use of wit for which we toil: 
 Late fruit, and planted in too cold a soil. 
 
 Dryden. 
 
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 FEBRUARY 3 
 
 Wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence : but the excellency of 
 knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. Eccleslastes 
 7:12. 
 
 Support anb 2Def*n0r. 
 
 (Extract from address before Young Men's Lyceum, 
 Springfield, Illinois, January, 1838.) 
 
 Reason cold, calculating, unimpassionate reason must fur- 
 nish all the materials for our support and defense. Let those 
 materials be molded into general intelligence, sound morality, 
 and, in particular, a reverence for the Constitution and the laws; 
 and then our country shall continue to improve, and our nation, 
 revering his name, and permitting no hostile foot to pass or dese- 
 crate his resting-place, shall be the first to hear the last trump 
 that shall awaken our Washington. Upon these let the proud 
 fabric of freedom rest as the rock of its basis, and, as truly as 
 has been said of the only greater institution, "the gates of hell 
 shall not prevail against it." 
 
 Defend us, Lord, from every ill; 
 Strengthen our hearts to do thy will; 
 In all we plan and all we do, 
 Still keep us to thy service true. 
 
 Thou who art Light, shine on each soul! 
 Thou who art Truth, each mind contrail 
 Open our eyes, and make us see 
 The path which leads to heaven and theet 
 
 John Hay.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 4 
 
 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy 
 merchandise. Ezekiel 26 : 12. 
 
 e traitor jforf tit& ifyte 
 
 (His views on the Confiscation Act, passed by Congress 
 and approved by the President, July 17, 1862.) 
 
 It is startling to say that Congress can free a slave within a 
 State, and yet were it said that the ownership of a slave had 
 f.rst been transferred to the nation, and that Congress had then 
 liberated him, the difficulty would vanish; and this is the real 
 case. The traitor against the general Government forfeits his 
 slave at least as justly as he does any other property, and he for- 
 feits both to the Government against which he offends. The 
 Government, so far as there can be ownership, owns the forfeited 
 slaves, and the question for Congress in regard to them is, Shall 
 they be made free or sold to new masters? I see no objection to 
 Congress deciding in advance that they shall be free. 
 
 You have among you many a purchased slave. 
 Which, like your asses, and your dogs, and mules, 
 You use in abject and in slavish parts 
 Because you bought them. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
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 FEBRUARY 5 
 
 Let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether It be unto death, 
 or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment. Ezra 
 7:26. 
 
 tfir Cost of a Cau0elt0d fldar. 
 
 (In defense of the Confiscation Act, passed by Congress, 
 July 17, 1862. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 That those who make a causeless war should be compelled to 
 pay the cost of it, is too obviously just to be called in question. 
 To give Government protection to the property of persons who 
 have abandoned it, and gone on a crusade to overthrow the same 
 Government, is absurd, if considered in the mere light of justice. 
 The severest justice may not always be the best policy. ... I 
 think our military commanders, when, in military phrase, they 
 are within the enemy's country, should, in an orderly manner, 
 seize and keep whatever of real or personal property may be 
 necessary or convenient for their commands, and at the same 
 time preserve in some way the evidence of what they do. 
 
 And many an old man's sigh, and many a widow's, 
 And many an orphan's water-standing eye 
 Men for their sons', wives for their husbands' fate, 
 And orphans for their parents' timeless death, 
 Shall rue the hour that ever thou wast born. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
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 FEBRUARY 6 
 
 My soul is weary of my life ; I will leave my complaint upon myself ; I 
 will speak in the bitterness of my soul. Job. 10 : 1. 
 
 Position te |M a 25t& of 
 
 (To an old and intimate friend from Springfield, Illinois.) 
 
 You know better than any man living that from my boyhood 
 up my ambition was to be President. I am President of one part 
 of this divided country at least; but look at me! Oh, I wish I 
 had never been born! I 've a white elephant on my hands, one 
 hard to manage. With a fire in my front and rear to contend 
 with, the jealousies of the military commanders, and not receiv- 
 ing that cordial cooperative support from Congress that could 
 reasonably be expected, with an active and formidable enemy in 
 the field threatening the very life-blood of the Government, my 
 position is anything but a bed of roses. 
 
 Alas! I have not words to tell my grief; 
 To vent my sorrow would be some relief; 
 Light sufferings give us leisure to complain; 
 We groan, but cannot speak, in greater pain. 
 
 Dryden. 
 
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 FEBRUARY 7 
 
 The mighty man, . . . the judge, . . . the counsellor, . . . and the 
 eloquent orator. Isaiah 3:2, 3. 
 
 (The following generous allusion was made to Honorable 
 Stephen A. Douglas in a speech in 1856.) 
 
 Twenty years ago Judge Douglas and I first became acquainted. 
 We were both young then, he a trifle younger than I. Even then 
 we were both ambitious I, perhaps, quite as much as he. With 
 me the race of ambition has been a failure. With him it has 
 been a splendid success. His name fills the nation, and it is not 
 unknown in foreign lands. I affect no contempt for the high 
 eminence he has reached; so reached that the oppressed of my 
 species might have shared with me in the elevation, I would 
 rather stand on that eminence that wear the richest crown that 
 ever pressed a monarch's brow. 
 
 The boost o.f heraldry, the pomp of power, 
 
 And all that be.auty, all that wealth e'er gave. 
 
 Await alike the inevitable hour ; 
 
 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 
 
 Gray.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 8 
 
 Let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people. I. Chronicles 19 : 13. 
 
 Sin Dbr rmatrf), 
 
 (To Brigadier-General Buell, January 13, 1862, in answer 
 to a dispatch.) 
 
 With this preliminary I state my general idea of this war to be, 
 that we have the greater numbers and the enemy has the greater 
 facility of concentrating forces upon points of collision; that we 
 must fail unless we can find some way of making our advantage 
 an overmatch for his; and that this can only be done by men- 
 acing him with superior forces at different points at the same 
 time, so that we can safely attack one or both if he makes no 
 change; and if he weakens one, to strengthen the other, forbear 
 to attack the strengthened one, but seize and hold the weakened 
 one, gaining so much. 
 
 Then, in the name of God, and all these rights, 
 
 Advance your standards, draw your willing swords: 
 
 For me the ransom of my bold attempt 
 
 Shall be this cold corse on the earth's bold face; 
 
 But if I thrive, the gain of my attempt 
 
 The least of you shall share his part thereof. 
 
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 . . FEBRUARY 9 
 
 The memory of the Just is blessed. Proverbs 10 : 7. 
 
 (General 
 
 (Said while examining some court-martial cases, and writ- 
 Ing the date February 9, 1864.) 
 
 Does your mind, Judge Holt, associate events with dates? 
 Every time this morning that I have had occasion to write the 
 day of the month, the thought has come up, This is General Har- 
 rison's birthday. 
 
 Hail, memory, hail! in all thy exhaustlexs mine, 
 From age to age unnumbered treasures shine! 
 Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey. 
 And place and time are subject to thy sicay ! 
 
 Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain. 
 Our thoughts are UnJc'd by many a hidden chain, 
 Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise! 
 Each stamps its image as the other flics! 
 
 Rogers. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN TEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 10 
 
 Riches certainly make themselves wings ; they fly away as an eagle 
 toward heaven. Proverbs 23 : 5. 
 
 Deab Ho00 (or 
 
 (Decision rendered February 11, 1864, as to the liability 
 of the Government to pay two or three hundred dollars in 
 greenback notes lost by a coachman by fire at the mansion 
 stables, February 10, 1864. Case submitted by Robert Lin- 
 coln.) 
 
 The payment of a note presupposes its presentation to the 
 maker of it. It is the sign or symbol of value received; it is not 
 value itself, that is clear. At the same time the production of the 
 note seems a necessary warrant for the demand; and while the 
 moral obligation is as strong without this, governments and 
 banking institutions do not recognize any principle beyond the 
 strictly legal. It is an established rule that the citizen cannot 
 sue the Government; therefore, I don't see but that it is a dead 
 less for Jehu. 
 
 Riches, like insects, while conceal'd they lie, 
 Wait but for wings, and in their season fly; 
 To whom can riches give repute and trust, 
 Content or pleasure, but the good and justt 
 Judges and senates have been bought for gold, 
 .Esteem and love are never to be sold. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 11 
 
 The eternal God Is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. 
 Deuteronomy 33 : 27. 
 
 Sin flfftctionate jfaretodl. 
 
 (Farewell address at Springfield, Illinois, standing on the 
 car platform, January 11, 1861.) 
 
 MY FRIENDS: No one, not in my position, can appreciate the 
 sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. 
 Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century; here my 
 children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not 
 how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which 
 is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other 
 man since the days of Washington. He never could have suc- 
 ceeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at 
 all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without the same 
 divine aid which sustained him; and in the same Almighty-Being 
 I place my reliance for support, and I hope you, my friends, will 
 all pray that I may receive that divine assistance, without which 
 I cannot succeed. Again, I bid you an affectionate farewell. 
 
 When forced to part from those we lore, 
 
 Though sure to meet to-morrow, 
 We yet a kind of anguish "prove, 
 
 And with a touch of sorrow. 
 But oh! what words can paint the fears 
 
 When from those friends we sever 
 Perhaps to part for months for years 
 
 Perhaps to part forever. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 12 (Lincoln's Birthday) 
 
 Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel ? behold, my family is poor. 
 Judges 6 : 15. 
 
 (To Mr. J. L. Scripps.) 
 
 My early history is perfectly characterized by a single line of 
 Gray's Elegy, "The short and simple annals of the poor." 
 
 (To Honorable J. W. Fell, in 1859.) 
 
 I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. 
 My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished fam- 
 ilies, second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who 
 died in my tenth year, was of a family by the name of Hanks. 
 . . . My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of 
 age, and grew up literally without any education. He removed 
 from Kentucky to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in my 
 eighth year. We reached our new home about the time the State 
 came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears, and 
 other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There 
 were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever re- 
 quired of a teacher beyond "readin', writin', and cipherin' to the 
 rule of three." If a straggler, supposed to understand Latin, 
 happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as 
 a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for 
 education. Of course when I came of age I did not know much. 
 Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of 
 three, but that was all. I have not been in school since. The 
 little advance I now have upon this store of education I have 
 picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity. 
 
 From out the hillside hovel came 
 
 An infant's wail, which proved the key 
 
 Of songs of freedom yet to be. 
 
 To drown the groans a nation's shame. 
 
 Ben D. House. 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 13 
 
 I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice 
 I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown 
 tongue. I. Corinthians 14 : 19. 
 
 Coercion anU 3nba0ion. 
 
 (From speech at Indianapolis, before the Legislature, Feb- 
 ruary 11, 1861.) 
 
 Solomon says there is "a time to keep silence"; and when men 
 wrangle by the mouth with no certainty that they mean the same 
 thing, while using the same word, it perhaps were as well if they 
 would keep silence. The words "coercion" and "invasion" are 
 much used in these days, and often with some temper and hot 
 blood. Let us make sure, if we can, that we do not misunder- 
 stand the meaning of those who use them. Let us get the exact 
 definition of these words, not from dictionaries, but from the 
 men themselves, who certainly depreciate the things they would 
 represent by the use of the words. What, then, is "coercion"? 
 What is "invasion"? Would the marching of an army into South 
 Carolina, without the consent of her people, and with hostile in- 
 tent toward them, be an "invasion"? I certainly think it would; 
 and it would be "coercion" also if the South Carolinians were 
 forced to submit. 
 
 "T is only man can create, 
 
 And cut the air to sounds articulate 
 
 By nature's special charter. Nay, speech can 
 
 Make a shrewd discrepance 'twixt man and man: 
 
 It doth the gentleman from clown discover: 
 
 And -from a fool the grave philosopher; 
 
 \s Solon said to one in judgment weak, 
 
 7 thought thee wise until I heard thee speak." 
 
 James Howell. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 14 (Valentine Day) 
 
 The maid was fair and beautiful. Esther 2 : 7. 
 
 Beginning; of Eobt 
 
 (To an acquaintance in Springfield, Illinois.) 
 
 Did you ever write out a story in your mind? I did when I was 
 a little codger. One day a wagon with a lady and two girls and 
 a man broke down near us, and while they were fixing up, they 
 cooked in our kitchen. The woman had books and read us stories, 
 and they were the first I ever had heard. I took a great fancy to 
 one of the girls; and when they were gone I thought of her a 
 great deal, and one day when I was sitting out in the sun by the 
 house I wrote out a story in my mind. I thought I took my 
 father's horse and followed the wagon, and finally I found it, and 
 they were surprised to see me. I talked with the girl and per- 
 suaded her to elope with me; and that night I put her on my 
 horse, and we started off across the prairie. After several hours 
 we came to a camp, and when we rode up we found it was the 
 one we had left a few hours before, and we went in. The next 
 night we tried it again, and the same thing happened the horse 
 came back to the same place; and then we concluded that we 
 ought not to elope. I stayed until I had persuaded her father to 
 give her to me. I always meant to write that story out and pub- 
 lish it, and I began once; but I concluded it was not much of a 
 story. But I think that was the beginning of love with me. 
 
 Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, 
 Birds choose their mates, and couple too, this day; 
 But by their flight I never can divine 
 When I shall couple with my Valentine. 
 
 He 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 15 
 
 The whole land is made desolate. Jeremiah 12 : 11. 
 
 SDtetracted Condition ot t&e Country 
 
 (Before the Mayor and Common Council of Pittsburg, 
 Pennsylvania, February 15. 1861.) 
 
 In every short address I have made to the people, in every 
 crowd through which I have passed, of late, some allusion has 
 been made to the distracted condition of the country. It is natu- 
 ral to expect that I should say something on this subject; but to 
 touch upon it all would involve an elaborate discussion of a great 
 many questions and circumstances, requiring more time than I 
 can at present command, and would, perhaps, commit me upon 
 matters that have not yet fully developed themselves. The con- 
 dition of the country is an extraordinary one, and fills the mind 
 of every patriot with anxiety. It is my intention to give this 
 subject all the consideration I possibly can before especially de- 
 ciding in regard to it, so that when I do speak, I hope I may say 
 nothing in opposition to the spirit of the Constitution, contrary 
 to the integrity of the Union, or which will prove inimical to the 
 liberties of the people or to the peace of the whole country. 
 
 When shall the deadly hate of faction cease. 
 
 When shall our long-divided land have rest, 
 
 If every peevish, moody malcontent 
 
 Shall set the senseless rabble in an uproar f 
 
 Fright them with dangers, and perplex their brains 
 
 Each day with some fantastic giddy change f 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 16 
 
 On earth peace, good will toward men. Luke 2 : 14. 
 
 Cordial (Boon mill 
 
 (Extract from speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, February 12, 1861.) 
 
 In a few short years I and every other individual man who is 
 now living will pass away. I hope that our national difficulties 
 will also pass away, and I hope we shall see in the streets of Cin- 
 cinnati good old Cincinnati for centuries to come, once every 
 four years, the people give such a reception as this to the consti- 
 tutionally elected President of the whole United States. I hope 
 you will all join in that reception, and that you will also wel- 
 come your brethren across the river to participate in it. We shall 
 welcome them in every State in the Union, no matter where they 
 are from. From away South, we shall extend to them a cordial 
 good will, when our present differences shall have been forgotten 
 and blown to the winds forever. 
 
 If I unwittingly, or in my rage, 
 
 Have aught committed that is hardly borne 
 
 By any in this presence, I desire 
 
 To reconcile me to his friendly peace: 
 
 'T is death to me to be at enmity; 
 
 I hate it, and desire all good men's love. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 17 
 
 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great line. Numbers 23 : 24. 
 
 People l&tee in 
 
 (Extract from address to citizens of Indianapolis, Indiana, 
 February 11, 1861.) 
 
 Of the people, when they rise in mass in behalf of the Union, and 
 the liberties of their country, truly may it be said, "The gates of 
 hell shall not prevail against them." In all trying positions in 
 which I shall be placed, and, doubtless, I shall be placed in many 
 such, my reliance will be placed upon you and the people of the 
 United States; and I wish you to remember, now and forever, 
 that it is your business, and not mine; that if the Union of these 
 States and the liberties of this people shall be lost, it is but little 
 to any one man of fifty-two years of age, but a great deal to the 
 thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to 
 their posterity in all coming time. 
 
 They need no urging to stir them on, 
 
 They yearn for us no battle cry; 
 At the word that their country calls for men 
 They throw down hammer, scythe, and pen, 
 
 And are ready to serve and diet 
 
 Barry. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 18 
 
 lie that shall humble himself shall be exalted. Matthew 23 : 12. 
 
 of HU t 
 
 (Extract from speech to the Legislature at Albany, New 
 York, February 18, 1861.) 
 
 It is true that while I hold myself, without mock modesty, the 
 humblest of all the individuals who have ever been elected Presi- 
 dent of the United States, I yet have a more difficult task to per- 
 form than any one of them has ever yet encountered. 
 
 Hoir humble, yet how hopeful he could be, 
 
 How, in good fortune and in ill, the same; 
 Nor bitter in success, nor boastful he, 
 
 Thirsty for goal, nor feverish for fame. 
 
 He went about his work such work as few 
 
 Ever laid on head and heart and hand 
 As one who knows where there 's a task to do 
 
 Man's honest will must Heaven's good grace command. 
 
 Tom Taylor. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 19 
 
 Let us stand together. Isaiah 50 : 8. 
 
 Common Cauge tot 
 
 (Extract from speech at Poughkeepsie, New York, Feb- 
 ruary 19, 1861.) 
 
 These receptions have been given me at other places, and as 
 here, by men of different parties, and not by one party alone. It 
 shows an earnest effort on the part of all to save, not the country, 
 for the country can save itself, but to save the institutions of the 
 country those institutions under which, for at least three-quar- 
 ters of a century, we have become the greatest, the most intelli- 
 gent, and the happiest people in the world. These manifestations 
 show that we all make common cause for these objects; that if 
 some of them are successful in an election and others are beaten, 
 those who are beaten are not in favor of sinking the ship in con- 
 sequence of defeat, but are earnest in their purpose to sail it 
 safely through the voyage in hand, and, insofar as they may 
 think there has been any mistake in the election, satisfying them- 
 selves to take their chance at setting the matter right the next 
 time. This course is entirely right. 
 
 Our country first, their glory and their pride, 
 Land of their hopes, land where their fathers died, 
 When in the right, they 'II keep thy honor bright; 
 When in the wrong, they 'II die to set it right. 
 
 James T. Fields. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 20 
 
 The child is not; and I, whither shall I go? Genesis 37:30. 
 
 , mnut. 
 
 (Died February 20, 1862, aged twelve years.) 
 
 (To Colonel Cannon.) 
 
 Colonel, did you ever dream of a lost friend, and feel that you 
 were holding sweet communion with that friend, and yet have a 
 sad consciousness that it was not a reality? Just so I dream of 
 my boy, Willie. 
 
 (To a Christian lady.) 
 
 I had lived until my boy, Willie, died, without realizing fully 
 these things. That blow overwhelmed me. It showed me my 
 weakness as I had never felt it before, and if I can take what 
 you have stated as a test, I think I can safely say that I know 
 something of that change of which you speak; and I will further 
 add, that it has been my intention for some time, at a suitable 
 opportunity, to make a public religious profession. 
 
 Love is the golden chain that binds 
 
 The happy souls above; 
 And he 's an heir of heaven that finds 
 
 His bosom glow with love. 
 
 Charles Sicain. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 21 
 
 I understood as a child, I thought as a child. I. Corinthians 13 : 11. 
 
 at Trenton. 
 
 (Extract of speech before the Senate at Trenton, New 
 Jersey, February 21, 1861.) 
 
 May I be pardoned if, upon this occasion, I mention that away 
 back in my childhood, the earliest days of my being able to read, 
 I got hold of a small book, such a one as few of the younger mem- 
 bers have ever seen, "Weem's Life of Washington." I remember all 
 the accounts there given of the battlefields and the struggles for 
 the liberties of the country, and none fixed themselves upon my 
 imagination so deeply as the struggle here at Trenton, New Jer- 
 sey. The crossing of the river, the contest with the Hessians, the 
 great hardships endured at that time, all fixed themselves in my 
 memory, more than any single revolutionary event; and you all 
 know, for you have all been boys, how those early impressions 
 last longer than any others. I recollect thinking then, boy even 
 though I was, that there must have been something more than 
 common that these men struggled for. 
 
 / love to learn their story, 
 
 Who suffered for my sake, 
 To emulate their glory, 
 
 And follow in their wake; 
 Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages, 
 The noble of all ages, 
 Whose deeds crown history's pages, 
 
 And Time's great volume make. 
 
 Banks. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOS: 
 
 FEBRUARY 22 (Washington's Birthday) 
 
 The righteous shall be In everlasting remembrance. Psalms 112 : 6. 
 
 (Address at Springfield, Illinois, February 22, 1842.) 
 
 This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday 
 of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. Washington 
 is the mightiest name of earth long since mightiest in moral 
 reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It cannot be. 
 To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington 
 it alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pro- 
 nounce the name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it 
 shining on. 
 
 As "flrst in war, first in peace," 
 
 As patriot, father, friend 
 He will be blessed till time shall cease, 
 
 And earthly life shall end. 
 
 Anonymout. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN TSAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 23 
 
 I am for peace : but when I speak, they are for war. Psalms 120 : 7. 
 
 of flZUat, 
 
 (Conclusion of address on raising flag on Independence 
 Hall, Philadelphia, February 22, 1861. See July 4.) 
 
 In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of 
 bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in 
 favor of such a course, and I may say, in advance, that there will 
 be no bloodshed unless it is forced upon the Government. The 
 Government will not use force unless force is used against it. My 
 friends, this is a wholly unprepared speech. I did not expect to 
 be called upon to say a word when I came here. I supposed I was 
 to do something toward raising this flag. I may, therefore, have 
 said something indiscreet; but I have said nothing but what I 
 am willing to live by, and in the pleasure of Almighty God, to 
 die by. 
 
 O war, 'begot in pride and luxury, 
 
 The child of malice and revengeful hate; 
 Thou impious good, and good impiety! 
 
 Thou art the foul refiner of a state, 
 Unjust scourge of men's iniquity, 
 Sharpeaser of corruptions desperate I 
 Is there no means but a sin-sick land 
 Must be let blood with such a boisterous handt 
 
 Daniel. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN TEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 24 
 
 Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? Genesis 18 : 25. 
 
 jpmal {JTrtumpI) of 
 
 (To Rev. Alexander Reed, Superintendent of the United 
 States Christian Commission, February 22, 1863.) 
 
 Whatever shall be, sincerely and in God's name, devised for 
 the good of the soldiers and seamen in their hard sphere of 
 duty, can scarcely fail to be blessed; and whatever shall tend to 
 turn our thoughts from the unreasonable and uncharitable pas- 
 sions, prejudices, and jealousies incident to a great national 
 trouble such as ours, and to fix them on the vast and long-endur- 
 ing consequences, for weal or for woe, which are to result from 
 the struggle, and especially to strengthen our reliance on the 
 Supreme Being for the final triumph of the right, cannot but be 
 well for us all. The birthday of Washington and the Christian 
 Sabbath coinciding this year, and suggesting together the highest 
 interests of this life and of that to come, is most propitious for 
 the meeting proposed. 
 
 Let us fight for the right, though the struggle be long, 
 
 With firm and unswerving desire; 
 Let us manfully battle oppression and wrong 
 With hearts that are earnest, and trusty, and strong; 
 
 With God and the truth to inspire. 
 
 E. T. Jeffrey. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 25 
 
 They helped every one his neighbour ; and every one said to his brother, 
 Be of good courage, Isaiah 41 : 6. 
 
 flputual feecuritp. 
 
 (Letter to Governor Fletcher, of Missouri, February 20, 
 1865.) 
 
 It seems that there is no organized military force of the enemy 
 in Missouri, and yet that destruction of property and life is ram- 
 pant everywhere. Is not the cure for this within the reach of the 
 people themselves? It cannot but be that every man, not natu- 
 rally a robber or cutthroat, would gladly put an end to this state 
 of things. A large majority, in every locality, must feel alike 
 upon this subject; and if so, they only need to reach an under- 
 standing, one with another. Each leaving all others alone solves 
 the problem; and surely each would do this, but for his appre- 
 hension that others will not leave him alone. Cannot this mis- 
 chievous distrust be removed? Let neighborhood meetings be 
 everywhere called and held, of all entertaining a sincere purpose 
 for mutual security in the future, whatever they may heretofore 
 have thought, said, or done about the war, or about anything else. 
 Let all such meet, and, waiving all else, pledge each to cease 
 harassing others, and to make common cause against whoever 
 persists in making, aiding, or encouraging further disturbance. 
 The practical means they will best know how to adopt and apply. 
 At such meetings, old friendships will cross the memory, and 
 honor and Christian charity will come in to help. 
 
 Thus by friendship's ties united, 
 
 We will change the bloody past 
 Into golden links of union, 
 Blending all in love at last. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 2 
 
 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. 
 Romans 15 : 2. 
 
 Won ag $v flDton 
 
 (From first speech in Washington after arriving, February 
 27, 1861, delivered at his hotel to the Mayor and Common 
 Council.) 
 
 As it is the first time in my life since the present phase of poli- 
 tics has presented itself in this country, that I have said anything 
 publicly within a region of country where the institution of 
 slavery exists, I will take occasion to say that I think very much 
 of the ill feeling that has existed, and still exists between the 
 people in the sections from which I came and the people here, is 
 dependent upon a misunderstanding of one another. I therefore 
 avail myself of this opportunity to assure you, Mr. Mayor, and 
 all the gentlemen present, that I have not now, and never have 
 had any disposition to treat you in any respect otherwise than 
 as my own neighbors. I have not now any purpose to withhold 
 from you any of the benefits of the Constitution, under any cir- . 
 cuinstances, that I would not feel myself constrained to withhold 
 from my own neighbors; and I hope, in a word, that when we 
 shall become better acquainted and I say it with great confidence 
 we shall like each other the more. 
 
 My country, sir, is not a single spot 
 Of such a mould, or fix'd to such a clime; 
 No, 't is the social circle of my friends, 
 The lov'd community in which I 'm link'd, 
 And in whose welfare all my wishes center. 
 
 James Miller.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 27 
 
 We have done that which was our duty to do. Luke 17 : 10. 
 
 SDtttp. 
 
 (Extract from Cooper Institute speech. New York, Feb- 
 ruary 27, 1860.) 
 
 Even though the Southern people will not so much as listen to 
 us, let us calmly consider their demands, and yield to them, if in 
 our deliberate view of our duty we possibly can. Judging by all 
 they say and do, and by the subject and nature of their contro- 
 versy with us, let us determine, if we can, what will satisfy them. 
 . . . Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it 
 alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity aris- 
 ing from its actual presence in the nation. But can we, while our 
 votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national terri- 
 tories, and to overrun us here in the free States? If our sense of 
 duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and 
 effectively. 
 
 Not in dumb resignation 
 
 We lift our hands on high; 
 Not like the nerveless fatalist, 
 
 Content to trust and die. 
 Our faith springs like the eagle, 
 
 Who soars to meet the sun, 
 And cries exulting unto Thee, 
 
 "O Lord, thy will be done." 
 
 When tyrant feet are trampling 
 
 Upon the common weal, 
 Thou dost not bid us bend and writhe 
 
 Beneath the iron heel. 
 In thy name ice assert our right 
 
 By sword or tongue or pen, 
 And even the headsman's ax may flash 
 
 Thy message unto men. 
 
 Thy will; it bids the iceak be strong, 
 
 It bids the strong be just; 
 No lip to fawn, no hand to beg, 
 
 No brow to seek the dust. 
 Wherever man oppresses man 
 
 Beneath thy liberal sun, 
 O Lord, be there, thine arm made bare: 
 
 Thy righteous will be done. Hon. John Hay. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 28 
 
 How forcible are right words ! Job 6 : 25. 
 
 (Extracts from Cooper Institute speech, New York, Febru- 
 ary 27, 1860. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances 
 wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored con- 
 trivances such as groping for some middle ground between the 
 right and the wrong, vain as the search for a man who should be 
 neither a living man nor a dead man; such a policy of "don't 
 care" on a question about which all true men do care; such as 
 Union appeals, beseeching true Union men to yield to disunion- 
 ists, reversing the divine rule, and calling not the sinners but the 
 righteous to repentance; such as invocations to Washington im- 
 ploring men to unsay what Washington said, and to undo what 
 Washington did. Let us have faith that right makes might, and 
 in that faith let us, to the end, do our duty as we understand it. 
 
 The man who is strong to fight his fight, 
 
 And whose will no force can daunt, 
 While the truth is truth and the right is might, 
 
 Is the man that the ages want. 
 
 He may fail or fall in grim defeat, 
 
 But he has not fled the strife, 
 And the house of earth shall smell more sweet 
 
 For the perfume of his life. 
 
 Dunbar. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 FEBRUARY 29 
 
 Is thine heart right, as my heart Is with thy heart? If it be, give me 
 thine hand. II. Kings 10 : 15. 
 
 & 3$i0un&et0tantiing;. 
 
 (From a speech In response to a serenade at Washington, 
 February 28, 1861.) 
 
 I am here for the purpose of taking official position amongst 
 the people, almost all of whom were politically opposed to me 
 and are yet opposed to me, as I suppose. I propose no lengthy 
 address to you. I only propose to say, as I did yesterday, when 
 your worthy Mayor and Board of Aldermen called upon me, that 
 I thought much of the ill feeling that has existed between you 
 and the people of your surroundings, and that people from among 
 whom I came, has depended, and now depends upon a misunder- 
 standing. I hope that if things shall go along as prosperously as 
 I believe we all desire they may, I have it in my power to remove 
 some of the misunderstanding; that I may be able to convince 
 you, and the people of your section of the country, that we regard 
 you as in all things our equals, and in all things entitled to the 
 same respect and the same treatment that we claim for ourselves; 
 that we are in no wise disposed, if it were in our power to oppress 
 you, to deprive you of any of your rights under the Constitution 
 of the United States, or over-narrowly to split hairs with you in 
 regard to those rights, but are determined to give you, as far as 
 lies in our hands, all your rights under the Constitution not 
 grudgingly, but fully and fairly. I hope that, by thus dealing 
 with you, we shall become better acquainted, and be better 
 friends. 
 
 Could we but draw back the curtains 
 
 That surround each other's lives, 
 See .the naked heart and spirit, 
 
 Know what spur the action gives; 
 Often we should find it better, 
 
 Purer than we judge we should; 
 We should love each other better 
 
 If ice only understood. 
 
 Anonymous. 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MARCH 1 
 
 Commit thy way unto the Lord ; trust also in him ; and he shall bring 
 it to pass. Psalms 37 : 5. 
 
 (Formal acceptance of reelection as reported by Mr. Wil- 
 son, of Iowa, to the House of Representatives, March 1, 
 1865.) 
 
 Having served four years in the depths of a great and yet 
 unended national peril, I can view this call to a second term in 
 no wise no more flattering to myself than as an expression of the 
 public judgment that I may better finish a difficult work, in which 
 I have labored from the first, than could any one less severely 
 schooled to the task. In this view, and with assured reliance on 
 that Almighty Ruler who has so graciously sustained us thus far, 
 and with increased gratitude to the generous people for their 
 continued confidence, I accept the renewed trust with its yet 
 onerous and perplexing duties and responsibilities. 
 
 Since God doth will that some shall dicell at ease, 
 And others shall know hardness; this is sure, 
 
 The lot that fits each nature he forsees; 
 
 And wherefore murmur when we must endure t 
 
 Some day his loving wisdom will be plain 
 
 As the sweet sunshine following after rain. 
 
 Mary Bradley. 
 
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 MARCH 2 
 
 Think not that I am come to destroy the law : I am not come to destroy, 
 but to fulfil. Matt. 5 : 17. 
 
 (From the first Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.) 
 
 Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern 
 States that by the accession of a Republican administration their 
 property and their peace and personal security are to be en- 
 dangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such 
 apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary 
 has all the while existed, and been open to inspection. It is found 
 in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses 
 you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare 
 that "I have no disposition, directly or indirectly, to interfere 
 with the institution in the States where it exists." I believe I 
 have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so. 
 Those who nominated and elected me did so with the full knowl- 
 edge that I had made this, and many similar declarations, and 
 had never recanted them. 
 
 The flying rumours gathered as they roll'd, 
 Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told, 
 And all who told it added something new, 
 And all who heard it made enlargement, too, 
 In every ear it spread, on every tongue it grew. 
 
 Pope. 
 
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 MARCH 3 
 
 Ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of 
 the oracles of God. Hebrews 5 : 12. 
 
 Union flDIoer Hfjait tljc Constitution. 
 
 (From the first Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. Con- 
 tinued from preceding page.) 
 
 The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, 
 in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured 
 and continued in the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It 
 was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States 
 expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by 
 the articles of Confederation in 1778, and finally, in 1787, one of 
 the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the constitu- 
 tion was to form a more perfect Union. But if the destruction of 
 the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully pos- 
 sible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost 
 the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views that 
 no State, upon its own mere notion, can lawfully get out of the 
 Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally 
 void; and that acts of violence within any State or States against 
 the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolu- 
 tionary, according to circumstances. 
 
 Who would sever freedom's shrine f 
 Who would draw the inrideous linef 
 Though, by birth, one spot be mine, 
 
 Dear is all the rest: 
 Dear to me the South's fair land, 
 Dear the central mountain band, 
 Dear to New England's rocky strand, 
 
 Dear the prairied West. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 MARCH 4 (Inauguration Day) 
 
 This people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart. Jeremiah 5 : 23. 
 
 of 
 
 (From the first Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. Con- 
 tinued from preceding page.) 
 
 If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the 
 Government must cease. There is no alternative for continuing 
 the Government but acquiescence on the one side or the other. 
 If a minority in such a case will secede rather than acquiesce, 
 they will make a precedent which, in turn, will ruin and divide 
 them, for a minority of their own will secede from them when- 
 over a majority refuses to be controlled by such a minority. For 
 instance, why not any portion of a new Confederacy, a year or 
 two hence, arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the 
 present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish dis- 
 union sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of 
 doing this. Is there such perfect identity of interests among the 
 States to compose a new Union as to produce harmony only, and 
 prevent renewed secession? Plainly, the central idea of secession 
 is the essence of anarchy. 
 
 Rebellion! foul dishonoring word, 
 
 Whose wrongful blight so often has stained 
 
 Tlie holiest cause that tongue or sicord 
 Of mortal ever lost or gained. 
 
 Moore. 
 
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 MARCH 5 
 
 He took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the 
 people ; and they said, All that the Lord hath said we will do, and be 
 obedient. Exodus 24 : 7. 
 
 ttp from t&e 
 
 (From the first Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. Con- 
 tinued from preceding page.) 
 
 The Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people, 
 and they have conferred none upon him to fix the terms for the 
 separation of the States. The people themselves, also, can do this 
 if they choose, but the Executive, as such, has nothing to do with 
 it. His duty is to administer the present government as it came 
 into his hands, and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his suc- 
 cessor. Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ulti- 
 mate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in 
 the world? ... If the Almighty Ruler of nations, with his eter- 
 nal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or yours of 
 the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the 
 judgment of this great tribunal, the American people. 
 
 A government, on freedom's basis built, 
 
 Has, in all ages, been the theme of song, 
 
 And the desire of great godlike men, 
 
 For this the Grecian patriots fought; for this 
 
 The noblest Roman died. Shall I go onf 
 
 Name Tell, and Hampden, and our Washington. 
 
 Mrs. Hale. 
 
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 MARCH 6 
 
 See, and ask for the old paths, where Is the good way, and walk therein. 
 But they said, We will noi walk therein. Jeremiah 6 : 16. 
 
 jSDId Constitution Unimpaired* 
 
 (From the first Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. Con- 
 tinued from preceding page.) 
 
 My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this 
 whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If 
 there be an object to hurry any of you, in hot haste, to a step 
 which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frus- 
 trated by taking time; but no good cause can be frustrated by it. 
 Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution 
 unimpaired, and on the sensitive point, the laws of your own 
 framing under it; while the new administration will have no 
 immediate power to change either. If it were admitted you who 
 are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there is still 
 not a single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriot- 
 ism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet 
 forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the 
 best way, all our present difficulties. 
 
 Thou too sail on, O Ship of State! 
 Sail on, O Union, strong and great I 
 Humanity icith all its fears, 
 With all the hopes of future years, 
 Is hanging breathless on thy fate! 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
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 MARCH 7 
 
 If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things 
 which belong unto thy peace ! but now are they hid from thine eyes. Luke 
 19 : 42. 
 
 (Conclusion of first Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in 
 mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will 
 not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves 
 the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy 
 the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to "pre- 
 serve, protect, and defend" it. I am loath to close. We are not 
 enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion 
 may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The 
 mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and 
 patriot gave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this 
 broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again 
 touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. 
 
 How earnestly did I desire to draw thce 
 
 To hope, to safety, and abiding peace; 
 And now, what dis-mal portents overawe thee, 
 
 Whose tokens drear continue to increase; 
 Destruction, a gaunt specter, hovers o'er thee, 
 
 And waves his 'bony hand with menace dread, 
 Or stands with aspect threaten'ng before thee, 
 
 Or writes dark omens on the clouds o'erhead. 
 
 , J. W. Slagenhaup. 
 
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 MARCH 8 
 
 And this Is the confidence we have in him, that if we ask anything 
 according to his will, he heareth us. I. John 5 : 14. 
 
 of Botfc Could jRot be 
 
 (From the second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.) 
 
 Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or duration 
 which it has already attained. Neither anticipated the cause of 
 the conflict might cease with, or even before the conflict itself 
 should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result 
 less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and 
 pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. 
 It may seem strange that any man should dare to ask a just 
 God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other 
 men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The 
 prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been 
 answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe to 
 the world because of offenses! for it must need be that offense 
 come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we 
 shall suppose American slavery is one of those offenses which, in 
 the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having con- 
 tinued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and 
 that he gives to both North and South this terrible war as the 
 woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern 
 therein any departure from those divine attributes which the be- 
 lievers in a living God always ascribe to him? 
 
 O sad estate 
 
 Of human wretchedness ! so weak is man, 
 So ignorant and blind, that did not God 
 Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, 
 We should be ruined at our own request. 
 
 Hannah More. 
 
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 MARCH 9 
 
 Above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. 
 Colossians 3 : 14. 
 
 ^0toatti0 jRone, Cljatftp tot 
 
 (From the second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty 
 scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it 
 continue until all the wealth piled up by the bondman's two hun- 
 dred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until 
 every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another 
 drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so 
 still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and 
 righteous altogether." With malice toward none, with charity for 
 all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us 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. 
 
 In faith and hope the world will disagree, 
 But all mankind's concern is charity: 
 All must be false that thwart this one great end 
 And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend. 
 
 Pope. 
 
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 MARCH 10 
 
 Apply thine heart unto Instruction, and thine ears to words of knowl- 
 edge. Proverbs 23 : 12. 
 
 (Bentral (C&ucation. 
 
 (From a circular announcing his candidacy for the Legis- 
 lature, in March, 1832, when only twenty-three years old.) 
 
 That every man may receive at least a moderate education, 
 and thereby be enabled to read the histories of his own and other 
 countries, by which he may duly appreciate the value of our free 
 institutions, appears to be an object of vital importance; even on 
 this account alone, to say nothing of the advantages and satis- 
 faction to be derived from all being able to read the Scriptures 
 and other works, both of religious and moral nature, for them- 
 selves. For my part, I desire to see the time when education, by 
 its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and integrity, shall be- 
 come much more general than at present, and should be gratified 
 to have it in my power to contribute something to the advance- 
 ment of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate 
 the happy period. 
 
 Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, 
 How in his cradle first he fostered was, 
 And judge of nature's cunning operation, 
 How things sjie formed of a formless mass: 
 By knowledge we do learn ourselves to know; 
 And what to man and what to God we owe. 
 
 Spencer. 
 
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 MARCH 11 
 
 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. Proverbs 22 : 1. 
 
 ambition. 
 
 (From a circular printed in March, 1832, announcing him- 
 self a candidate for the Legislature, when he was twenty- 
 three years old. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it 
 be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as 
 that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men by rendering my- 
 self worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying 
 this ambition is yet to be developed. I am young, and unknown to 
 most of you. I was born, and have ever remained in the most 
 humble walks of life. I have no wealthy or popular relatives or 
 friends to recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon 
 the independent voters of the country; and if elected they will 
 have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting 
 in my labors to compensate. But if the good people in their wis- 
 dom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too 
 familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined. 
 
 So he went forth to battle on the side 
 
 That he felt clear was Liberty's and, Right's; 
 
 As in, his pleasant boyhood he had plied 
 
 His warfare with rude Nature's thwarting mights. 
 
 Tom Taylor. 
 
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 MARCH 12 
 
 The labourer is worthy of his reward. I. Timothy 5 : 18. 
 
 (Beneral (Krant. 
 
 (U. S. Grant, commissioned Lieutenant-General at his first 
 meeting with Lincoln, March 9, 1864.) 
 
 General Grant, the nation's appreciation of what you have done, 
 and its reliance upon you for what remains to be done in the 
 existing struggle, are now presented with this commission, con- 
 stituting you lieutenant-general in the army of the United States. 
 With this high honor devolves upon you a corresponding respon- 
 sibility. As the country trusts in you, so, under God, it will sus- 
 tain you. I scarcely need add that with what I here speak for 
 the nation goes my own hearty personal concurrence. 
 
 But there are deeds which should not pass away, 
 
 And names that must not wither, though the earth 
 Forgets her empires with a just decay. 
 
 The enslavers and the enslaved, their death and birth; 
 The high, the mountain majesty of worth 
 
 Should be, and sh-all, survivor of its woe, 
 And from its immortality look forth 
 
 In the sun's face, like yonder Alpine snow, 
 Impcrishably pure beyond all things below. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MARCH 13 
 
 To undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that 
 ye break every yoke. Isaiah 58 : 6. 
 
 letod of Ei&ettp in t&e jpamity of jpteebom. 
 
 (Letter to Governor Hahn, of Louisiana, March 13, 1864.) 
 
 I congratulate you on having fixed your name in history as the 
 first Free-State Governor of Louisiana. Now, you are about to 
 have a convention, which, among other things, will probably de- 
 fine the elective franchise. I barely suggest, for your private 
 consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let 
 in, as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who 
 have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help, 
 in some trying time, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of 
 freedom. 
 
 When will the world shake off such yokes,, oh, when 
 Will that redeeming day shine out on men, 
 That shall behold them rise, erect and free 
 As heaven and nature meant mankind should bet 
 
 Thomas Moore. 
 
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 MARCH 14 
 
 Understandest thou what thou readest ? Acts 8 : 30. 
 
 (To Mr. McDonough, an actor, who called at the White 
 House, accompanied by W. D. Kelley.) 
 
 I am very glad to meet you, Mr. McDonough, and I am grateful 
 to Kelley for bringing you in so early, for I want you to tell me 
 something about Shakespeare's plays as they are constructed for 
 the stage. You can imagine that I do not get much time to study 
 such matters, but I recently had a couple of talks with Hackett 
 Baron Hackett, as they call him who is famous as Jack Falstaff, 
 from whom I elicited few satisfactory replies, though I probed 
 him with a good many questions. . . . Hackett's lack of informa- 
 tion impressed me with a doubt as to whether he had ever studied 
 Shakespeare's text. 
 
 (To a chaplain who was present.) 
 
 From your calling it is probable that you do not know that the 
 acting plays which people crowd to hear are not always those 
 planned by their reputed authors. Thus, take the stage edition 
 of Richard III. It opens with a passage from Henry VI., after 
 which comes portions of Richard III., then another scene from 
 Henry VI., and the finest soliloquy in the play, if we may judge 
 from the many quotations it furnishes, and the frequency with 
 which it is heard in amateur exhibitions, was never seen by 
 Shakespeare, but was written was it not, Mr. McDonough? 
 after his death, by Colley Gibber. 
 
 When Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes 
 First reared the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose, 
 Each change of many-colored life he drew; 
 Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new 
 Existence -saw him spurn her bounded reign; 
 And panting Timetoil' d after him in vain. 
 
 Dr. Johnson.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MARCH 15 
 
 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Gala- 
 tians 4 : 16. 
 
 to be 
 
 (Letter to Thurlow Weed, March 15, 1865.) 
 
 Every one likes a compliment. Thank you for yours on my 
 little notification speech, and on the recent inaugural address. I 
 expect the latter to wear as well as, perhaps better than any- 
 thing I have produced; but I believe it is not immediately popu- 
 lar. Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a 
 difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny 
 it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing 
 the world. It is a truth which I thought needed to be told, and, 
 as whatever of humiliation there is in it falls most directly on 
 myself, I thought others might afford to let me tell it. 
 
 They are slaves icho fear to speak 
 
 For the fallen and the weak; 
 
 They are slaves icho will not choose 
 
 Hatred, scoffiny, and abuse, 
 
 Rather than in silence shrink 
 
 From the truth they needs must think; 
 
 They are slaves who dare not be 
 
 In the right with two or three. 
 
 Lowell.
 
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 MARCH 16 
 
 This woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did. 
 Acts. 9 : 36. 
 
 Compliment to flflloman. 
 
 (Extract from a speech at a Ladies' Fair for the benefit of 
 the soldiers, Washington, March 16, 1864.) 
 
 In this extraordinary war extraordinary developments have 
 manifested themselves such as have not been seen in former 
 wars; and among these manifestations nothing has been more 
 remarkable than these fairs for the relief of suffering soldiers 
 and their families, and the chief agents in these fairs are the 
 women of America. I am not accustomed to the use of the lan- 
 guage of eulogy; I have never studied the art of paying compli- 
 ments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by 
 orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of 
 women were applied to the women of America, it would not do 
 them justice for their conduct during the war. I will close by 
 saying, God bless the women of America. 
 
 Woman! blest partner of our joys and woes! 
 
 Even in the darkest hours of earthly ill 
 Untarnish'd yet thy fond ejection glows, 
 
 Throbs with each pulse, and beats with every thrill! 
 
 Sands. 
 
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 MARCH 17 
 
 Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the Lord. 
 Samuel 30 : 26. 
 
 Captured 
 
 (Extract from a speech at National Hotel, Washington, 
 March 17, 1865, on presenting to Governor Morton, of In- 
 diana, a Confederate flag captured by Indiana troops.) 
 
 It will be but a very few words that I shall undertake to say. 
 I was born in Kentucky, raised in Indiana, and live in Illinois, 
 and I am now here, where it is my business to be, to care equally 
 for the good people of all the States. I am glad to see an Indiana 
 regiment on this day able to present this captured flag to the 
 Governor of Indiana. I am not disposed, in saying this, to make 
 a distinction between the States, for all have done equally well. 
 
 There arc flays in many lands, 
 There are flags of every hue; 
 But there is no flag, however grand, 
 Like our own Red, White, and Blue. 
 
 Anonymous.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MARCH 18 
 
 What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what 
 communion hath light with darkness? II. Corinthians 6:14. 
 
 (Ettrnal ftntagontem. 
 
 (Extract from speech at Peoria, Illinois, 1854.) 
 
 Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature opposi- 
 tion to it in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal 
 antagonism, and when brought into collision so fiercely as exten- 
 sion brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must cease- 
 lessly follow. Repeal the Missouri Compromise, repeal all com- 
 promises, repeal the Declaration of Independence, repeal all past 
 history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It still will be the 
 abundance of man's heart that slavery is wrong, and out of the 
 abundance of his heart his mouth will continue to speak. 
 
 Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record 
 One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; 
 Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne 
 Yet that scaffold steals the future, and, behind the dim unknown, 
 Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. 
 
 Lowell. 
 
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 MARCH 19 
 
 Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? Joshua 5 : 13. 
 
 & People's Content. 
 
 (Extract from first message to Congress, July 4, 1861.) 
 
 Our adversaries have adopted some declaration of independ- 
 ence, in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they 
 omit the words, "All men are created equal." Why? They have 
 adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of 
 which, unlike our good old one signed by Washington, they omit, 
 "We, the people," and substitute, "We, the deputies of the sover- 
 eign and Independent States." Why? Why this deliberate press- 
 ing out of view the rights of men and the authority of the 
 people? This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the 
 Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form of 
 government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of 
 men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the 
 paths of laudable pursuit for all, to afford an unfettered start 
 and a fair chance in the race of life. 
 
 O liberty! heaven's choice prerogative I 
 
 True bond of law ! thou social soul of property ! 
 
 Thou breath of rea-son! life of life itself t 
 For the valiant bleed. sacred liberty I 
 
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 MARCH 20 
 
 He multiplleth words without knowledge. Job 35 : 16. 
 
 2Unff IBUcfiard t&e 
 
 (To Mr. F. B. Carpenter, at White House, March 2, 1864.) 
 
 The opening of the play of King Richard the Third seems to 
 me often entirely misapprehended. It is quite common for an 
 actor to come upon the stage, and, in a sophomoric style, to begin 
 with a flourish: 
 
 "Now is the winter of our discontent 
 Made glorious summer by this sun of York, 
 And all the clouds that lowered upon our house, 
 In the deep bosom of the ocean buried." 
 
 Now, this is all wrong. Richard, you remember, had been, and 
 was then, plotting the destruction of his brothers, to make room 
 for himself. Outwardly the most loyal to the newly crowned 
 king, secretly he could scarcely contain his impatience at the 
 obstacles still in the way of his own elevation. He appears on the 
 stage, just after the crowning of Edward, burning with repressed 
 hate and jealousy. The prologue is the utterance of the most 
 intense bitterness and satire. 
 
 Words learn'd by rote a parrot matt rehearse, 
 But talking in not alica-ys to converse; 
 yot more distant fr,om harmony divine, 
 The constant creaking of a country sign. 
 
 Cowper.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MARCH 21 
 
 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy 
 latter end. Proverbs 19 : 20. 
 
 Si femall Ketattur. 
 
 (Notes from a law lecture, 1850.) 
 
 As a general rule, never take your whole fee in advance, nor 
 any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you 
 are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest 
 in the case as if something was still in prospect for you as well 
 PS for your client. 
 
 All are architects of fate, 
 
 Working in these walls of time, 
 Some with massive deeds and great, 
 
 Some with ornaments of rhyme. 
 
 Nothing useless is, or low; 
 
 Each thing in its place is best; 
 And what seems "but idle show 
 
 Strengthens and supports the rest. 
 
 For the structure that we raise, 
 
 Time is u~ith materials filled; 
 Our to-days and yesterdays 
 
 Are the blocks with which ivc build. 
 
 Truli/ shape and fashion these; 
 
 Leave no yawning gaps between; 
 Think not, because no man sees, 
 
 Such things will remain unseen. 
 
 Longfellow.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MARCH 22 
 
 Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scrip- 
 tures, came to Ephesus. Acts 18 : 24. 
 
 extemporaneous &ptafcing. 
 
 (Notes from a law lecture, 1850.) 
 
 Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. 
 It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faith- 
 ful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him 
 business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more 
 fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech- 
 making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall 
 claim exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a fail- 
 ure in advance. 
 
 No haughty gesture marks his gait, 
 
 No pompous tone his word, 
 No studied attitude is seen, 
 
 No palling nonsense heard; 
 He'll suit his bearing to the hour 
 
 Laugh, listen, learn, or teach, 
 With joyous freedom in his mirth, 
 
 And candor in his speech. 
 
 Eliza Cook. 
 
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 MARCH 23 
 
 Blessed are the peacemakers. Matthew 5 : 9. 
 
 SDisfcouraar Situation. 
 
 (Notes from a law lecture, 1850.) 
 
 Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise 
 whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner 
 is often a real loser in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a 
 peace-maker, the lawyer has a superiority of being a good man. 
 There will still be business enough. Never stir up litigation. A 
 worse man can hardly be found than one who does this. Who 
 can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls 
 the registry of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to 
 stir up strife and put money in his pocket? A moral tone ought 
 to be infused into the profession which would drive such men out 
 of it. 
 
 Learn to dissemble wrongs, to smile at injuries, 
 
 And suffer crimes that thou icant'st the power to punish: 
 
 Be easy, affable, familiar, friendly; 
 
 Search, and know all mankind's mysterious icays, 
 
 But trust the secret of thy soul to none: 
 
 This is the way, 
 
 This only, to be safe in such a world as this is. 
 
 Rowe. 
 
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 MARCH 24 
 
 Bring Zenas the lawyer. Titus 3 : 13. 
 
 popular Belief, 
 
 (Notes from a law lecture, 1850.) 
 
 There is a vague popular belief that the lawyers are necessarily 
 dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent 
 confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers 
 by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dis- 
 honesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is com- 
 mon almost universal. Let no young man choosing the law for 
 a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief. Resolve to be 
 honest at all events; and if, in your own judgment, you cannot 
 be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. 
 Choose some other occupation rather than one in the choosing of 
 which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave. 
 
 An, honest man is still an unmov'd rock, 
 TVash'd whiter, but not shaken with the shock: 
 Whose hea-rt conccires no sinister device; 
 Fearless he plays with flames, but treads on ice. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MARCH 25 
 
 We all do fade as a leaf. Isaiah 64 : 6. 
 
 2U0t Heat 
 
 (To F. B. Carpenter, March 25, 1864.) 
 
 There are some quaint, queer verses written, I think, by Oliver 
 Wendell Holmes, entitled "The Last Leaf," one of which is to me 
 inexpressibly touching: 
 
 "The mossy marbles rest 
 On the lips that he has pressed 
 
 In their bloom; 
 
 And the names he loved to hear 
 Have been carved for many a year 
 
 On the tomb." 
 
 For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is nothing finer than 
 those six lines in the English language! 
 
 They are falling, sadly falling, 
 
 Close beside our cottage door, 
 Pale and faded, like the loved ones 
 
 That have gone forevermore. 
 They are falling, and, the sunbeams 
 
 Shine in beauty soft around; 
 Yet the faded leaves are falling, 
 Falling on the grassy mound. 
 
 J. H. Kurzenknabe. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MARCH 26 
 
 The hand of the diligent maketh rich. Proverbs 10 : 4. 
 
 (From a speech at New Haven, Connecticut, March 6, 1860.) 
 
 I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it 
 would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any 
 war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal 
 chance to get rich with everybody else. When one starts poor, as 
 most do in the race of life, free society is such that when he 
 knows he can better his condition, he knows that there is no fixed 
 condition of labor for his whole life. I am not ashamed to con- 
 fess that twenty-five years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling 
 rails, at work on a flat-boat just what might happen to any poor 
 man's son. I want every man to have the chance and I believe 
 a black man is entitled to it in which he can better his condi- 
 tion; when he may look forward and hope to be a hired laborer 
 this year, and then next work for himself afterward, and finally 
 to hire men to work for him. That is the true system. 
 
 The, uncleared forest, the unbroken soil, 
 
 The iron bark that turns the lumberer's ax; 
 
 The rapid that o'crbears the boatman's toil, 
 
 The prairies hiding the mazed wanderer's tracks ; 
 
 The ambushed Indian and the prowling bear, 
 
 Such were the deeds that helped his youth to train 
 
 Rough culture^ but such trees large fruit may bear, 
 If but their stalks be of right girth and grain. 
 
 Tom Taylor. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MARCH 27 
 
 The wicked plotteth against the just. Psalms 37 : 12. 
 
 <tttin$ flftgeb to 
 
 (To F. B. Carpenter, In 1864, who Informed him of the 
 publication of an alleged conspiracy to abduct or assassinate 
 the President.) 
 
 Well, even if true, I do not see what the Rebels would gain by 
 killing or getting in possession of me. I am but a single indi- 
 vidual, and it would not help their cause or make the least dif- 
 ference in the progress of the war. Everything would go right 
 on just the same. Soon after I was nominated at Chicago, I 
 began to receive letters threatening my life. The first one or two 
 made me a little uncomfortable, but I came at length to look for 
 a regular installment of this kind of correspondence in every 
 week's mail, and up to inauguration day I was in constant receipt 
 of such letters. It is no uncommon thing to receive them now; 
 but they have ceased to give me any apprehension. There is 
 nothing like getting used to things. 
 
 O sloic to smite and swift to spare, 
 
 Gentle and merciful and just! 
 Who, in the fear of God, did-st bear 
 
 The sicord of power a nation's trust! 
 
 Pure ica-s thy life; its bloody close 
 
 Has placed thee icith the sons of light, 
 
 Among the noble host of those 
 
 Who perished in the cause of Right. 
 
 Bryant. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MARCH 28 
 
 Owe no man any thing. Romans 13 : 8. 
 
 (Entitled to t&e 
 
 (Often told to his friends.) 
 
 In the days when I used to be "on the circuit," I was once 
 accosted in the cars by a stranger, who said, "Excuse me, sir, but 
 I have an article in my possession which belongs to you." "How 
 is that?" I asked, considerably astonished. The stranger took a 
 jack-knife from his pocket. "This knife," said he, "was placed 
 in my hands some years ago, with the injunction that I was to 
 keep it until I found a man uglier than myself. I have carried it 
 from that time to this. Allow me now to say, sir, that I think 
 you are fairly entitled to the property." 
 
 furrowed face, beloved 'by all the nation! 
 
 O tall, guant form, to memory fondly dear! 
 firm, bold hand, our strength and our salration! 
 
 heart that knew no fear. 
 
 Eugene J. Hall. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MARCH 29 
 
 Woe unto him that giveth to his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle 
 to him, and makest him drunken. Habakkuk 2 : 15. 
 
 (In defense of fifteen women of Clinton, Illinois, indicted 
 for saloon smashing, in 1839.) 
 
 May it please the court, I will say a few words in behalf of the 
 women who are arraigned before your honor and the jury. I 
 would suggest, first, that there be a change in the indictment, so 
 as to have it read, "The State against Mr. Whisky," instead of 
 "The State against the Women." It would be far more appro- 
 priate. Touching this question, there are three laws: First, the 
 law of self-protection; second, the law of the statute; third, the 
 law of God. The law of self-protection is the law of necessity, as 
 shown when our fathers threw the tea into the Boston harbor, 
 and in asserting their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of 
 happiness. This is the defense of these women. The man who 
 has persisted in selling whisky has had no regard for their well- 
 being or the welfare of their husbands and sons. He has had no 
 fear of God or regard for man; neither has he had any regard for 
 the laws of the statute. No jury can fix any damages or punish- 
 ment for any violation of the moral law. The course pursued by 
 this liquor-dealer has been for the demoralization of society. His 
 groggery has been a nuisance. These women, finding all moral 
 suasion of no avail with this fellow, oblivious to all tender appeal, 
 alike regardless of their prayers and tears, in order to protect 
 their households and promote the welfare of the community, 
 united to suppress the nuisance. The good of society demands 
 its suppression. They accomplished what otherwise could not 
 have been done." 
 
 They talk about a woman's sphere 
 As though it had a limit; 
 There 's not a place in earth or heaven, 
 There 's not a ta-sk to mankind given, 
 There 's not a blessing or a woe, 
 There 's not a ichl-spcr, yes or no, 
 There 's not a life, or death, or birth 
 That has a feather's iceiyht of worth, 
 Without a woman in it. 
 
 Anonymous. 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MARCH 30 
 
 Do that which is honest. II. Corinthians 13 : 7. 
 
 25ut 
 
 (Related to a friend, concerning the treachery of his part- 
 ner in 1834, throwing a heavy debt on him, which, in years 
 afterward, he paid.) 
 
 The debt was the greatest obstacle I have ever met in life. I 
 had no way of speculating, and could not earn money except by 
 labor; and to earn by labor eleven hundred dollars, besides my 
 living, seemed the work of a lifetime. There was, however, but 
 one way. I went to the creditors, and told them that if they 
 v/ould let me alone I would give them all I could earn over my 
 living, as fast as I could earn it. 
 
 The proudest motto for the young, 
 
 Write it in lines of gold 
 Upon my heart, and in thy mind 
 
 The stirring words enfold; 
 And in misfortune's dreary hour, 
 
 Or fortune's prosperous gale, 
 'T will have a holy, cheering power: 
 
 "There 's no such word as 'fail' !" 
 
 Mrs. Neal. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MARCH 31 
 
 Let not the rebellious exalt themseves. Psalms 66 : 7. 
 
 Ballot^ tfje &ucci$0ot0 of Bullets. 
 
 (Extract from' first message to Congress, July 4, 1861.) 
 
 Our popular government has often been called an experiment. 
 Two points in it our people have already settled the successful 
 establishing, and the successful administering of it. One still 
 remains its successful maintenance against a formidable internal 
 attempt to overthrow it. It is now for them to demonstrate to the 
 world that those who can fairly carry an election can also 
 suppress a rebellion; that ballots are the rightful and peaceful 
 successors of bullets; and that when ballots have fairly and con- 
 stitutionally decided, there can be no successful appeal back to 
 bullets; that there can be no successful appeal except to ballots 
 themselves at succeeding elections. Such will be a great lesson of 
 peace, teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, 
 neither can they take by a war; teaching all the folly of being 
 the beginners of war. 
 
 To fight, 
 
 In a just cause, and for our country's glory, 
 Is the best office of the best of men; 
 And to decline when these motives urge, 
 Is infamy beneath a coward's baseness. 
 
 Harvard. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 APRIL 1 (All Fools' Day) 
 
 The foolishness of fools is folly. Proverbs 14 : 24. 
 
 jfooi ti) 
 
 (Said to have been related upon different occasions.) 
 
 It is true that you can fool all the people some of the time, and 
 some of the people all of the time; but you cannot fool all of the 
 people all of the time. 
 
 I should be the most presumptuous blockhead upon this foot- 
 stool, if I for one day thought that I could discharge the duties 
 which have come upon me since I came into this place, without 
 the aid and enlighenment of one who is stronger and wiser than 
 all others. 
 
 Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, 
 
 A fool IN fashion, but a fool that 's OUT ; 
 
 His passion for absurdity 's so strong, 
 
 He cannot bear a rival in the wrong 
 
 Though wrong the mode, comply: the more sense is shown 
 
 In wearing other's follies than our own. 
 
 Young. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 APRIL 2 
 
 Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. 
 Matthew 7 : 12. 
 
 Bond of 
 
 (To New York Workmen's Association, April, 1864.) 
 
 The strongest bond of human sympathy outside of the family 
 relation should be one uniting all working people of all nations, 
 tongues, and kindreds, nor should this lead to a war on property 
 or owners of property. Property is the fruit of labor. Property 
 is desirable is a positive good in the world. That some should 
 be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just en- 
 couragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is 
 houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor dili- 
 gently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring him- 
 self that his own shall be safe from violence when built. 
 
 Let us dare to be noble men, nature's own pride, 
 
 And dare to be true to each other, 
 For the earth is a homestead so fruitful and wide, 
 We can live, we can- love, ice can toil side by side, 
 
 And each unto all be a brother. 
 
 E. T. Jeffrey. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 AFBIL 3 
 
 See thou do it not : . . . worhip God. Revelation 22 : 9. 
 
 35oto to (Bod 
 
 (Said to some colored people who knelt at his feet and 
 thanked him for their freedom at Richmond, Virginia, April 
 4, 1865, the day after the evacuation of the city.) 
 
 Don't kneel to me that is not right. You must kneel to God 
 only, and thank him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy. I 
 am but God's humble instrument; but you may rest assured that 
 as long as I live no one shall put a shackle on your limbs, and 
 you shall have all the rights which God has given to any other 
 free citizen of this republic. 
 
 O Holy Father! just and true 
 
 Are all thy works and ivords and ways, 
 
 And unto thee alone are due 
 
 Thanksgiving and eternal praise! 
 
 As children of thy gracious care, 
 We veil the eye we bend the knee, 
 
 With broken words of praise and prayer, 
 
 Father and God, we come to thee. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 APRIL, 4 
 
 The Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and n-om thy fear, and 
 from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serr^. Isaiah 14 : 3. 
 
 te gout 
 
 (Said to colored people as they gathered about him on the 
 streets of Richmond, Virginia, April 4, 1865.) 
 
 My poor friends, you are free free as air. You can cast off the 
 name of slave and trample upon it; it will come to you no more. 
 Liberty is your birthright. God gave it to you as he gave it to 
 others, and it is a sin that you have been deprived of it for so 
 many years. But you must try to deserve this priceless boon. 
 Let the world see that you merit it, and are able to maintain it 
 by your good works. Don't let your joy carry you into excesses; 
 learii the laws, and obey them. Obey God's commandments, and 
 thank him for giving you liberty, for to him you owe all things. 
 There, now, let me pass on; I have but little time to spare. I 
 want to see the Capitol, and must return at once to Washington 
 to secure to you that liberty which you seem to prize so highly. 
 
 But slaves that once conceived the glowing thought 
 
 Of freedom, in that hope itself possess 
 
 All that the contest calls for spirit, strength, 
 
 The scorn of danger, united hearts, 
 
 The surest presage of the good they seek. 
 
 Cowper. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 APRIL 5 
 
 Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together. Nehemiah 6 : 7. 
 
 Hlrron0tructton. 
 
 (Extract from last public speech, Washington, April 11, 1865.) 
 
 By these recent successes, the re-inauguration of the national 
 authority, reconstruction, which has had a large share of thought 
 from the first, is pressed much more closely upon our attention. 
 It is fraught with great difficulty. Unlike a case of war between 
 independent nations, there is no authorized organ for us to treat 
 with. No one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any 
 other man. We simply must begin and mold from disorganized 
 and discordant elements. Nor is it a small additional embarrass- 
 ment that we, the loyal people, differ among ourselves as to the 
 mode, manner, and means of reconstruction. 
 
 O make thou us, through centuries long, 
 In peace secure, in justice strong; 
 Around our gift of freedom draw 
 The safeguards of thy righteous law, 
 And, cast in some diviner mold, 
 Let the new cycle shame the old. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 APRII,, 6 
 
 A wise man is strong ; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. 
 Proverbs 24 5. 
 
 (From a letter written April 6, 1859, in answer to a note 
 from Springfield, Illinois, inviting him to a festival in honor 
 of Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13.) 
 
 All honor to Jefferson; to a man v/ho, in the concrete pressure 
 of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the 
 coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revo- 
 lutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and 
 all times, and so to embalm it there that to-day and in all coming 
 days it shall be a rebuke and stumbling-block to the harbingers of 
 reappearing tyranny and oppression. 
 
 Great truths are portions of the soul of man; 
 
 Great souls are portions of eternity; 
 Each drop of blood that e'er through true heart ran 
 
 With lofty message, ran for thee and me; 
 For God's law, since the starry song began, 
 
 Hath been, and still forevermore must be, 
 That every deed which shall outlast life's span, 
 
 Must goad the soul to be erect and free. 
 
 J. R. Lowell. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 APRIL, 7 
 
 A man that hath friends must show himself friendly. Proverbs 18 : 24. 
 
 friend, 
 
 (Extract from a letter written in 1842 to the groom of a 
 newly married couple.) 
 
 I regret to learn that you have resolved not to return to Illinois. 
 I shall be very lonesome without you. How miserably things 
 seem to be arranged in this world! If we have no friends we 
 have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, 
 and be doubly pained by the loss. I did hope she and you would 
 make your home here, yet I own I have no right to insist. You 
 owe obligations to her ten thousand times more sacred than any 
 you can owe others, and in that light let them be respected and 
 observed. It is natural that she should desire to remain with her 
 relations and friends. As to friends, she could not need them 
 anywhere she would have them in abundance here. 
 
 Oh, friendship! thou balm and sweet'ner of life! 
 Kind parent of ease, and composer of strife! 
 Without thee, alas ! what are riches and power 
 But empty delusions, the joy of an hour* 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Smith. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 APRIL 8 
 
 Thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant 
 voice, and can play well on an instrument. Ezekiel 33 : 32. 
 
 SDteie. 
 
 (Remarks in response to an immense multitude gathered 
 before the White House, April 10, 1865.) 
 
 I am very greatly rejoiced that an occasion has occurred so 
 pleasurable that the people can't restrain themselves. I suppose 
 that arrangements are being made for some sort of formal dem- 
 onstration, perhaps this evening or to-morrow night. If there 
 should be such a demonstration I, of course, shall have to respond 
 to it, and I shall have nothing to say if I dribble it out before. I 
 see you have a band. I propose now closing up by requesting you 
 to play a certain air, or tune. I have always thought "Dixie" one 
 of the best tunes I ever heard. I have heard that our adversaries 
 over the way have attempted to appropriate it as a national air. 
 I insisted yesterday that we had fairly captured it. I presented 
 the question to the Attorney General, and he gave his opinion 
 that it is our lawful prize. I ask the band to give us a good turn 
 upon it. 
 
 Then I wish I was in Dixie I Hooray! Hooray! 
 
 In Dixie's Land I'll take my stand, 
 
 To live and die in Dixie. 
 Away, away, away down South in Dixie. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 APRIL, 9 
 
 Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and 
 his rider hath he thrown into the sea. Exodus 15 : 21. 
 
 (Blowup 
 
 (To a large crowd assembled in front of the Executive 
 Mansion late in afternoon, April 10, 1865.) 
 
 I am informed that you have assembled here this afternoon 
 under the impression that I had made an appointment to speak 
 at this time. This is a mistake. I have made no such an appoint- 
 ment. More or less persons have been gathered here at different 
 times during the day, and in the exuberance of their feeling, and 
 for all of which they are greatly justified, calling upon me to say 
 something, and I have, from time to time, been sending out what 
 I suppose was proper to disperse them for the present. I said 
 to a larger audience this morning what I desire now to repeat. 
 It is this: That I supposed, in consequence of the glorious news 
 we have been receiving lately, there is to be some general demon- 
 stration, either on this or to-morrow evening when I shall be 
 expected, I presume, to say something. 
 
 Loud and long 
 
 Lift the old exulting song; 
 Sing with Miriam by the sea: 
 
 He has cast the mighty down, 
 Horse and rider sink and drown 
 He has triumphed gloriously. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 APRIL, 10 
 
 By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be 
 condemned. Matthew 12 : 37. 
 
 (In response to a large crowd in front of the White House on 
 the evening of April 10, 1865. Continued from preceding 
 page.) 
 
 Just here I will remark that I would much prefer having this 
 demonstration take place to-morrow evening, as I would then be 
 much better prepared to say what I have to say than I am now or 
 can be this evening. I therefore say to you that I shall be quite 
 willing, and I hope ready, to say something then; whereas, just 
 now, I am not ready to say something that one in my position 
 ought to say. Everything I say, you know, goes into print. If I 
 make a mistake it doesn't merely affect me, or you, but the coun- 
 try. I, therefore, ought at least try not to make mistakes. If, 
 then, a general demonstration be made to-morrow evening, and it 
 is agreeable, I will endeavor to say something, and not make a 
 mistake, without at least trying carefully to avoid it. Thanking 
 you for the compliment of this call, I bid you good evening. 
 
 Words arc the soul's ambassadors, who go 
 Abroad upon her errands to and fro; 
 They are the sole expounders of the mind 
 And correspondence keep 'twixt all mankind. 
 
 Stillingfleet. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 APRIL, 11 
 
 I will give peace In the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall 
 make you afraid. Leviticus 26 : 6. 
 
 anfc 
 
 (Extract from last public speech, Washington, April 11, 1865.) 
 
 We meet this evening not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. 
 The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender 
 of the principal insugent army, give hope of a righteous and 
 speedy peace, whose joyous expression cannot be restrained. In 
 the midst of this, however, He from whom all blessings flow must 
 not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being pre- 
 pared, and will be duly promulgated. Nor must those whose 
 harder part gives us the cause of rejoicing be overlooked. Their 
 honors must not be parceled out with others. I myself was near 
 the front, and had the high pleasure of transmitting much of the 
 good news to you; but no part of the honor, for plan or execution, 
 is mine. To General Grant, his skillful officers and brave men, all 
 belongs. The gallant navy stood ready, but was not in reach to 
 take active part. 
 
 Brave minds, howe'er at war, are secret friends, 
 Their generous discord with the battle enil-s ; 
 In peace they wonder ichence dissension rose, 
 And ask how souls so like could e'er be foes. 
 
 Tickell. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 APRIL, 12 
 
 lie that handleth a matter wisely shall find good. Proverbs 16 : 20. 
 
 3fn t&e flUmon or flDut ot Jt. 
 
 (Extract from last public speech, Washington, April 11, 1865.) 
 
 We all agree that the seceded States, so-called, are out of their 
 proper, practical relation with the Union, and that the sole object 
 of the Government, civil and military, in regard to those States, 
 is to again get them into that proper, practical relation. I believe 
 it is not only possible, but in fact easier to do this without de- 
 ciding, or even considering, whether these States have ever been 
 out of the Union, than with it. Finding themselves safely at 
 home, it would be utterly immaterial whether they had ever been 
 abroad. Let us all join in doing the acts necessary to restoring 
 the proper, practical relations between these States and the Union, 
 and each forever after innocently indulge his own opinion whether 
 in doing the acts he brought the States from without into the 
 Union, or only gave them proper assistance, they never having 
 been out of it. 
 
 A T o more shall the war-cry sever, 
 
 Or the winding rivers be red; 
 They banish our anger forever 
 
 When they laurel the graves of our dead! 
 Under the sod and the dew, 
 
 Waiting the judgment day ; 
 Love and, tears for the Blue, 
 
 Tears and love for the Gray. 
 
 F. M. Finch. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 APRIL, 13 
 
 The time of my departure is at hand. II. Timothy 4 : 6. 
 
 Si $re0*ntfnunt 
 
 (To a newspaper correspondent.) 
 I feel a presentiment that I shall not outlast the Rebellion. 
 
 (To Harriet Beecher Stowe.) 
 
 Whichever way it ends, I have the impression that I shall not 
 last long after it is over. 
 
 (To his wife one day in April, 1865, when driving by a 
 country cemetery.) 
 
 Mary, you are younger than I. You will survive me. When I 
 am gone, lay my remains in some quiet place like this. 
 
 Beyond the smiling and the weeping 
 
 I shall be soon; 
 
 Beyond the leaking and the sleeping, 
 Beyond the sowing and the reaping 
 
 I shall be soon. 
 
 Beyond the parting and the meeting 
 
 I shall l>e soon; 
 
 Beyond the farewell and the greeting, 
 Beyond this pulse's fever beating 
 
 I shall be soon. 
 Love, rest, and home! 
 
 Horatius Bonar. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 APRIL, 14 (Good Friday, 1865) 
 
 Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in 
 Israel? II. Samuel 3:38. 
 
 flfllar 10 iDiJtr 3*r ugalem. 
 
 (To Major J. B. Merwin, who is yet living in Middlefleld, 
 Conn., and who, with Mr. Lincoln, stumped the State of 
 Illinois for Prohibition in 1855, on the morning of his assas- 
 sination, April 14, 18G5.) 
 
 Mr. Merwin, after Reconstruction the next great question will 
 be the overthrow of the liquor traffic. 
 
 (To his wife, while out driving alone in the afternoon of 
 his last day.) 
 
 Mary, we have had a hard time of it since we came to Wash- 
 ington, but I consider this day that the war is over. We must 
 both be more cheerful in the future; between the war and the 
 loss of our darling Willie, we have been very miserable. 
 
 (Last written words, given to Mr. Ashmun about 8 o'clock 
 P.M. of the fatal evening.) 
 
 Allow Mr. Ashmun and friend to come in at 9 A.M. to-morrow. 
 
 A. Lincoln, April 14, 1865. 
 
 (Last spoken words to his wife just before the assassin's 
 bullet entered his brain.) 
 
 There is no city I desire so much to see as Jerusalem. 
 
 Jerusalem! my glorious home! 
 
 My soul still pants for thee: 
 Then shall my labors have an end, 
 
 When I thy joys shall see. 
 
 Francis Baker. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 APRIL, 15 
 
 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. Jeremiah 
 50 : 22. 
 
 Call for ^rimttHibe TOougand 
 
 (Extracts from first Proclamation, calling for 75,000 men, 
 April 15, 1861.) 
 
 Whereas, the laws of the United States have been for some time 
 past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, 
 in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mis- 
 sissippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by a combination too powerful to 
 be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or 
 by the powers vested in the marshals by law; now, therefore, I, 
 Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the 
 power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought 
 fit to call forth and hereby do call forth the militia of the several 
 States of the Union to the aggregate number of seventy-five thou- 
 sand, in order to suppress said combination, and to cause the laws 
 to be duly executed. ... In every event, the utmost care will be 
 observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any 
 devastation, any destruction of, or interference with property, or 
 any disturbance of peaceful citizens of any part of the country; 
 and I hereby command the persons composing the combinations 
 aforesaid to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective 
 abodes within twenty days from this date. 
 
 Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, 
 And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!" 
 And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave 
 O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. 
 
 Francis Scott Key. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN TEAR BOOK 
 
 APRIL 16 
 
 The servant is free from his master. Job 3 : 19. 
 
 sslabcrg &bolte|)f b in District of Columbia. 
 
 (Congress having voted to abolish slavery in the District 
 of Columbia, the President signed the bill April 16, 1862, and 
 sent a message to Congress. The following is an extract 
 from the message.) 
 
 I have never doubted the constitutional authority of Congress 
 to abolish slavery in this District, and I have ever desired to see 
 the National Capital freed from the institution in some satisfac- 
 tory way. Hence there has never been, in my mind, any question 
 upon the subject except the one of expediency, arising in view of 
 all the circumstances. If there be matters within and about this 
 act which might have taken a course or shape more satisfactory 
 to my judgment, I do not attempt to specify them. I am gratified 
 that the two principles of compensation and colonization are both 
 recognized and practically applied in the act. 
 
 Speed on thy work, Lord God of Hosts! 
 
 And when the bondman's chain is riven, 
 And stcells from all our guilty coasts 
 
 The anthem of the free to heaven, 
 Oh, not to those whom thou hast led 
 
 As with thy cloud and fire before, 
 But unto thce, in fear and dread, 
 
 Be praise and glory evermore. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 APRIL 17 
 
 They shall fight against thee ; but they shall not prevail against thee ; 
 for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee. Jeremiah 1 : 19. 
 
 IStpel force 
 
 (Part of the reply to a committee sent by the Virginia 
 Convention, April 13, 1861, to ascertain his intended policy 
 toward the rebellious States.) 
 
 In answer I have to say that, having at the beginning of my 
 official term expressed my intended policy as plainly as I was 
 able, it is with deep regret and mortification I now learn there is 
 great and injurious uncertainty in the public mind as to what 
 that policy is, and what course I intend to pursue. Not having as 
 yet seen occasion to change, it is now my purpose to pursue the 
 course marked out in the inaugural address. I commend a care- 
 ful consideration of the whole document as the best expression I 
 can give to my purpose. ... By the words, "property and places 
 belonging to the Government," I chiefly allude to the military 
 posts and property which were in possession of the Government 
 when it came into my hands. But if, as now appears to be true, 
 in pursuit of a purpose to drive the United States authorities 
 from these places, an unprovoked assault has been made upon 
 Fort Sumter, I shall hold myself at liberty to repossess it, if I 
 can, like places which had been seized before the Government was 
 devolved upon me; and in any event I shall, to the best of my 
 ability, repel force by force. 
 
 Each soldier's name 
 
 Shall shine untarnished on the rolls of fame, 
 And stand the example of each distant age, 
 And add new luster to the historic page. 
 
 David Humphreys. 
 
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 APRIL 18 
 
 Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling- 
 block to them that are weak. I. Corinthians 8 : 9. 
 
 2Def inition ot t&e flfllorti "Et 
 
 (Extract from an address delivered April 18, 1864, at a 
 fair held at Baltimore for benefit of United States Sanitary 
 Commission.) 
 
 When the war commenced three years ago, no one expected that 
 it would last this long, and no one supposed that the institution 
 of slavery \\ould be materially affected by it. But here we are. 
 The war is not yet ended, and slavery has been materially affected 
 or interfered with. So true it is that man proposes and God dis- 
 poses. The world is in want of a good definition of the word "lib- 
 erty." We all declare ourselves to be for liberty, but we do not all 
 mean the same thing. Some men mean that a man can do as he 
 pleases with himself and his property. With others, it means 
 that some men can do as they please with other men and other 
 men's labor. Each of these things is called liberty, although 
 they are entirely different. To give an illustration: A shepherd 
 drives the wolf from the throat of his sheep when attacked by 
 him, and the sheep, of course, thanks the shepherd for the pre- 
 servation of his life; but the wolf denounces him as despoiling 
 the sheep of his liberty especially if it be a black sheep. 
 
 Canst thou, and honor'd with a Christian name, 
 Buy what is woman-born, and feel no shame f 
 Trade in the blood of innocence, and plead 
 Expedience as a warrant for the deedt 
 So may the wolf, whom famine has made bold 
 To quit the forest and invade the fold. 
 
 Cowpcr. 
 
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 APRIL 19 
 
 The Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every 
 man's work. I. Peter 1 : 17. 
 
 2Macfe 
 
 (Extract from a speech delivered at a Sanitary Fair, April 
 18, 1864. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 At the commencement of the war, it was doubtful whether black 
 men would be used as soldiers or not. The matter was examined 
 into very carefully, and after mature deliberation, the whole mat- 
 ter resting, as it were, with himself [the President], he, in his 
 judgment, decided that they should. He was responsible for the 
 act to the American people, to a Christian nation, to the future 
 historian, and, above all, to his God, to whom he would have, one 
 day, to render an account of his stewardship. He would now say 
 that in his opinion the black soldier should have the same protec- 
 tion as the white soldier, and he would have it. 
 
 "Now," the flag-sergeant cried, 
 "Though death and hell betide, 
 Let the whole nation see 
 If we are fit to 'be 
 Free in this land, or 'bound 
 Down, like the whining hound 
 Bound with red stripes of pain 
 In our cold chains again!" 
 O what a shout there went 
 From the black regiment! 
 
 George Henry Baker. 
 
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 APRIL, 20 
 
 Give her of the fruit of her hands ; and let her own works praise her in 
 the gates. Proverbs 31 : 31. 
 
 Jt 
 
 (Said to a legal friend after receiving $500 in a criminal 
 case, soon after he commenced the practice of law.) 
 
 Look here, Judge, see what a heap of money I 've got from the 
 
 case. Did you ever see anything like it? Why, I never 
 
 had so much money in my life before, put it all together. I have 
 got just five hundred dollars; if it were only seven hundred and 
 fifty, I would go directly and purchase a quarter section of land 
 and settle it upon my old stepmother. 
 
 (His friend proposed to loan him the deficiency, and sug- 
 gested that the property be for her use, to revert to Lincoln 
 upon her death.) 
 
 I shall do no such thing. It is a poor return, at the best, for all 
 the good woman's devotion and fidelity to me, and there is not 
 going to be any half-way business about it. 
 
 / live for those who love me, 
 
 Whose hearts are kind and true; 
 For the heaven that smiles above me 
 
 And waits my spirit too; 
 For all human ties that bind me, 
 For the tasks my God assigned me, 
 For the bright hopes left behind me, 
 And all the good that I can do. 
 
 Byron. 
 
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 APRIL 21 
 
 Let all your things be done with charity. I. Corinthians 16 : 14. 
 
 Common lEU&Ijtg of Citing. 
 
 (To a prominent lady, In the winter of 1864, who requested 
 the suppression of a certain influential Chicago newspaper.) 
 
 I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the 
 liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity 
 can ever justify it. A government had better go to the very 
 extreme of toleration than to do aught that could be construed 
 into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the com- 
 mon rights of its citizens. 
 
 Would you both please and be instructed, too, 
 Watch well the rage of shining, to subdue; 
 Hear every man upon his favorite theme, 
 And ever be more knowing than you seem. 
 The lowest genius will afford some light, 
 Or give a hint that ?iad escaped your sight. 
 
 Stillingfleet, 
 
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 APRIL, 22 (Arbor Day) 
 
 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees In them of all 
 kind of fruits. Ecclesiastes 2 : 5. 
 
 (Said in the presence of some ladies visiting the Soldiers' 
 Home at Washington.) 
 
 Let me discourse on a theme which I understand. I know all 
 about trees in the light of being a back woodsman. I'll show you 
 the difference between spruce, pine, and cedar, and this shred of 
 green, which is neither one nor the other, but a kind of illegiti- 
 mate cypress. Trees are as deceptive in their likeness to one 
 another as are certain classes of men, amongst whom none but a 
 physiognomist eye can discern dissimilar moral features until 
 events have developed them. 
 
 Give fools their gold and knaves their power; 
 
 Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; 
 Who sows a field, or trains a flower, 
 
 Or plants a tree is more than all. 
 
 For he who blesses most is blest; 
 
 And God and man shall own his worth, 
 Who toils to leave as his bequest 
 
 An added beauty to the earth. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
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 APRIL, 23 
 
 Children . . . skillful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and 
 understanding science, and such as had ability in them. Daniel 1 : 4. 
 
 ot &tnt&. 
 
 (Continued from conversation mentioned on preceding page.) 
 
 Do you know it would be a good thing if in all the schools pro- 
 posed and carried out by the improvement of modern thinkers, 
 we could have a school of events? It is only by that active devel- 
 opment that character and ability can be tested. Understand me, 
 I now mean men, not trees; they can be tried, and an analysis of 
 their strength obtained less expensive to life and human interests 
 than man's. What I say now is a mere whimsey, you know; but 
 when I speak of a school of events, I mean one in which, before 
 entering real life, students might pass through the mimic vicissi- 
 tudes and situations that are necessary to bring out their powers 
 and mark the calibre to which they are assigned. Thus one could 
 select from the graduates an invincible soldier, equal to any posi- 
 tion, with no such word as "fail"; a martyr to Right, ready to give 
 up life in the cause; a politician too cunning to be outwitted; and 
 so on. These things have all to be tried, and their sometimes 
 failure creates confusion as well as disappointment. There is no 
 more dangerous or expensive analysis than that which consists of 
 trying a man. 
 
 For noble youth, there is no thing so meet 
 As learning is, to know the good from ill: 
 To know the tongues, and perfectly indite, 
 And of the laws to have a perfect skill 
 Things to perform as right and justice will; 
 For honor is ordained for no cause 
 But to see right maintained by the laws. 
 
 Cavil. 
 
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 APRIL, 24 
 
 Put them In mind to be subject to principalities and powers. Titus 3 : 1. 
 
 to 2Do flDur SDutp. 
 
 (From a speech at Leaven worth, Kansas, in spring of 1860.) 
 
 If we shall constitutionally elect a president, it will be our duty 
 to see that you also submit. Old John Brown has been executed 
 for treason against a State. We cannot object, even though he 
 agreed with us in thinking slavery wrong. That cannot excuse 
 violence, bloodshed, and treason. It could avail him nothing that 
 he might think himself right. So, if we constitutionally elect a 
 president, and, therefore, you undertake to destroy the Union, it 
 will be our duty to deal with you as old John Brown has been 
 dealt with. We shall try to do our duty. We hope and believe 
 that in no section will a majority so act as to render such extreme 
 measure necessary. 
 
 Stern duty, daughter of the voice of God! 
 
 O duty! if that name thou love, 
 Who art a light to guide, a rod 
 
 To check the erring and reprove; 
 Thou who art victory and law, 
 When empty terrors overawe, 
 Give unto me, made lowly wise, 
 The spirit of self-sacrifice. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
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 APRIL, 25 
 
 Many bulls have compassed me : strong bulls of Bashan have beset me 
 round. Psalms 22 : 12. 
 
 Si garti jfull of <2Dl& 
 
 (To a gentleman who was very strongly pressing the pro- 
 motion of an officer to a "Brigadiership.") 
 
 But we have already more generals than we know what to do 
 with. Now, look here, you are a farmer, I believe; if not, you 
 will understand me. Suppose you had a large cattleyard full of 
 all sorts of cattle cows, oxen, bulls and you kept killing and 
 selling and disposing of your cows and oxen, in one way and 
 another taking good care of your bulls. By and by you would 
 find that you had nothing but a yard full of old bulls, good for 
 nothing under heaven. Now, it will be just so with the army, if 
 I don't stop making brigadier-generals. 
 
 In the world's broad fteld of tattle, 
 
 In the bivouac of life, 
 Be not like dumb, driven cattle! 
 
 Be a hero in the strife. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
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 APRIL, 26 
 
 Every one in his business. Nehemlah 13 : 30. 
 
 Bu0in00, jRot 
 
 (From a speech at National Hotel, Washington, March 17, 
 1865. See March 17.) 
 
 There are but few views or aspects of this great war upon 
 which I have not said or written something, whereby my own 
 opinion might be known. But there is one the recent attempt 
 of our erring brethren, as they are sometimes called, to employ 
 the negro to fight for them. I have neither written nor made a 
 speech on that subject, because that was their business, not mine; 
 and if I had a wish upon the subject, I had not the power to intro- 
 duce it, or make it effective. The great question with them was 
 whether the negro, being put into the army, will fight for them. 
 I do not know, and therefore cannot decide. They ought to know 
 better than we. I have in my lifetime heard many arguments 
 why the negroes ought to be slaves; but if they fight for those 
 who would keep them in slavery, it will be a better argument than 
 I have yet heard. He who will fight for that ought to be a slave. 
 
 The negro, spoiled of all that nature gave, 
 The free-born man thus shrank into a slave, 
 His passive limbs to measured looks confined, 
 Obey'd the Impulse of another mind; 
 A silent, secret, terrible control 
 That ruled his sinews and repress'd his soul. 
 Not for himself he leaked at morning light, 
 Toiled the long day, and sought repose at night, 
 His rest, his labor, pastime, strength, and health 
 Were only portions of a master's icealth. 
 
 M on tgomery. 
 
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 APRIL, 27 
 
 Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indig- 
 nation. Daniel 8 : 19. 
 
 fln& jRear at 
 
 (From speech delivered at Washington, March 17, 1865. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 While I have often said that all men ought to be free, yet would 
 I allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be, and 
 next to them those white people who argue in favor of making 
 other people slaves. I will say one thing in regard to the negroes 
 being employed to fight for them. I do know he cannot fight and 
 stay at home and make bread too; and as one is about as impor- 
 tant as the other to them, I don't care which they do. ... But 
 they cannot fight and work both. We must now see the bottom of 
 the enemy's resources. They will stand out as long as they can, 
 and if the negro will fight for them, they must allow him to fight. 
 They have drawn upon their last branch of resources, and we can 
 now see the bottom. I am glad to see the end so near at hand. 
 
 'Mid the din of arms, when the dust and smoke 
 
 In clouds are curling o'er thee, 
 Be firm till the enemy's ranks are broke, 
 
 And they fall or flee before thee! 
 But I would not have thee towering stand 
 
 O'er him who 's for mercy crying, 
 But 6<n0 to the earth, and with tender hand 
 
 Raise up the faint and dying. 
 
 Miss Gould. 
 
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 APRIL 28 
 
 They shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their 
 ranks. Joel 2 : 7. 
 
 t or 
 
 (Reply to a Baltimore committee, April 28, 1861, request- 
 ing that soldiers be not allowed to march through Maryland.) 
 
 You, gentlemen, come here to me and ask for peace on any 
 terms, and yet have no word of condemnation for those who are 
 making war on us. You express great horror of bloodshed, and 
 yet would not lay a straw in the way of those who are organizing 
 in Virginia and elsewhere to capture this city. The rebels attack 
 Fort Sumter, and your citizens attack troops sent to the defense 
 of the Government, and the lives and property in Washington, and 
 yet you would have me break my oath and surrender the Govern- 
 ment without a blow. There is no Washington in that no Jack- 
 son in that no manhood nor honor in that. I have no desire to 
 invade the South; but I must have troops to defend this Capital. 
 Geographically it lies surrounded by the soil of Maryland; and 
 mathematically the necessity exists that they should come over 
 her territory. Our men are not moles, and can't dig under the 
 earth; they are not birds, and can't fly through the air. There is 
 no way but to march across, and that they must do. But in doing 
 this there is no need of collision. Keep your rowdies in Balti- 
 more, and there will be no bloodshed. Go home and tell your 
 people that if they will not attack us, we will not attack them; 
 but if they do attack us, we will return it, and that severely. 
 
 The traitor's foot is on thy soil, Maryland, my Maryland! 
 Let not his touch thi/ honor spoil, Maryland, my Maryland! 
 Wipe out the unpatriotic gore that fleck'd the streets of Baltimore, 
 And be the loyal State o yore, Maryland, my Maryland. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 APRIL 29 
 
 And one went out Into the field to gather herbs. . . . And It came to 
 pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O 
 thou man of God, there is death in the pot. II. Kings 4 : 39, 40. 
 
 CBreeng {ttg TOtm on 
 
 (To a delegation of bankers, protesting to severity of Con- 
 gress in taxing State Banks.) 
 
 Now that reminds me of a circumstance that took place in a 
 neighborhood where I lived when I was a boy. In the spring of 
 the year the farmers were very fond of the dish which they called 
 "greens." One day after dinner, a large family were taken very 
 ill. The doctor was called in, who attributed it to the greens, of 
 which all had freely partaken. Living in the family was a half- 
 witted boy named Jake. On a subsequent occasion, when greens 
 had been gathered for dinner, the head of the house said, "Now, 
 boys, before running any further risk in this thing, we will first 
 try them on Jake. If he stands it, we are all right." And just 
 so, I suppose, Congress thought it would try this tax on the 
 State Banks. 
 
 / have lived long enough to be rarely mistaken, 
 
 And had my full share of life's cJiangeable scenes ; 
 But my woes have been solaced by good greens and bacon, 
 
 And my joys have been doubled by bacon and greens. 
 What a thrill of remembrance e'en now they awaken 
 
 Of childhood's gay morning, and youth's sunny scenes; 
 When, one day we had greens and a plateful of bacon, 
 
 And the next ice had bacon and a plateful of greens. 
 
 Ano-nymous. 
 
 12!
 
 A. LINCOLN From an Early
 
 Tin' IJiicuhi l-'<iinili/ at the \\'hHc Ifousc .
 
 APRIL 30 
 
 At the last it biteth like a serpent. Proverbs 23 : 22. 
 
 Serpent 
 
 (To a number of Kentuckians who insisted that troops 
 should not be sent through their State to put down the war 
 in Tennessee.) 
 
 I am a good deal like the farmer who, returning to his home one 
 winter night, found his two sweet little boys asleep with a hideous 
 serpent crawling over their bodies. He could not strike the ser- 
 pent without wounding or killing the children, so he calmly 
 waited until it had moved away. Now, I do not want to act in a 
 hurry about this matter; I don't want to hurt anybody in Ken- 
 tucky; but I will get the serpent out of Tennessee. 
 
 Thinkest thou there are no serpents in the world 
 But those which glide along the grassy sod 
 And sting the luckless foot that presses themf 
 There are, icho, in the path of social life, 
 Do task their spotted skins in Fortune's sun 
 And sting the soul aye, till its healthful frame 
 Is chang'd to secret, festering, sore disease, 
 80 deadly is the wound. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 MAY 1 
 
 A time to keep silence, and a time to speak. Eccleslastes 3 : 7. 
 
 fitting &CHU0 of tljc Present. 
 
 (From address to the General Assembly of Ohio, at Colum- 
 bus, February 13, 1861.) 
 
 There has fallen upon me a task which did not rest even upon 
 the Father of his Country, and so feeling, I cannot but turn and 
 look for the support without which it will be impossible for me 
 to perform that great task. I turn, then, and look to the great 
 American people, and to that God who has never forsaken them. 
 Allusion has been made to the interest felt in relation to the 
 policy in the new administration. In this I have received from 
 some a degree of credit for having kept silence, and from others 
 some depreciation. I still think that I was right. In the varying 
 and repeatedly shifting scenes of the present, and without a prece- 
 dent which could enable me to judge by the past, it has seemed 
 fitting that before speaking upon the difficulties of the country, I 
 should have gained a view of the whole field so as to be sure after 
 all at liberty to modify and change the course of policy as future 
 events may make a change necessary. I have not maintained 
 silence from any want of real anxiety. 
 
 / ask not that for me the plan 
 
 Of good and ill be set aside, 
 But that the common lot of man 
 
 Be nobly borne and glorified. 
 And that, though it be mine to know 
 
 How hard the stoniest pillow seems, 
 Good angels still may come and go 
 About the places of my dreams. 
 
 Phoebe Gary. 
 
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 MAY 2 
 
 Be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man. I. Kings 2 : 2. 
 
 Hearting ^otoarto (Brant. 
 
 (To General John M. Thayer, in early part of the Rebellion.) 
 
 Somehow or other, I have always felt a leaning toward Grant, 
 and have been inclined to place confidence in him. Ever since he 
 sent that memorable message to Buckner at Donelson, when the 
 latter asked for terms of surrender "No terms but unconditional 
 surrender; I propose to move immediately upon your works" I 
 have had great confidence in Grant, and have felt that he was a 
 man I could tie to, though I have never seen him. It is a source 
 of much satisfaction that my confidence in him has not been mis- 
 placed. 
 
 (To Mr. F. B. Carpenter, the artist, in 1864.) 
 
 The great thing about Grant, I take it, is his perfect coolness 
 and persistency of purpose. I judge he is not easily excited, which 
 is a great element in an officer, and has the grit of a bulldog! 
 Once let him get his "teeth" in, and nothing can shake him off. 
 
 Stick to your aim; the mongrel's hold will slip, 
 But only crowbars loose the bulldog's lip; 
 Small as he looks, the jaw that never yields 
 Drags doicn the bellowing monarch of the fields. 
 
 O. W. Holmes. 
 
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 MAY 3 
 
 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the Lord unto 
 battle. Joshua 4 : 13. 
 
 jfor a period of 
 
 (Proclamation Issued May 3, 1861, calling for 42,000 addi- 
 tional volunteers.) 
 
 Whereas, existing exigencies demand immediate and adequate 
 measures for the protection of the National Constitution and the 
 preservation of the National Union by the suppression of the in- 
 surrectionary combination now existing in several States for 
 opposing the laws of the Union, and obstructing the execution 
 thereof, to which end a military force, in addition to that called 
 forth by my proclamation of the fifteenth of April in the present 
 year, appears to be indispensably necessary; now, therefore, I, 
 Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and Com- 
 mander-in-chief of the Army and Navy thereof, and of the militia 
 of the several States when called into actual service, do hereby 
 call into the service of the United States forty-two thousand and 
 thirty-four volunteers, to serve for a period of three years, unless 
 sooner discharged, and to be mustered into service as infantry 
 and cavalry. 
 
 Listen, young heroes ! your country is calling ! 
 
 Time strikes the hour for the brave and the true I 
 Now, while the foremost are fighting and falling, 
 
 Fill up the ranks that have opened for you. 
 
 O. W. Holmes. 
 
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 MAY 4 
 
 There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee ; . . . take away the 
 arciu'srd thing from among you. Joshua 7 : 13. 
 
 (Btatmal !}0lt0f)mrnt of 
 
 (A recommendation to Congress, March 6, 1862.) 
 
 I recommend the adoption of a joint resolution by your honor- 
 able bodies, which shall be substantially as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any 
 State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to 
 such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in its discre- 
 tion, to compensate for the inconvenience, both public and private, 
 produced by such change of system. . . . While it is true that the 
 adoption of the proposed resolution would be merely initiatory, 
 and not within itself a practical measure, it is recommended in 
 the hope that it would soon lead to important practical results. 
 In full view of my great responsibility to my God and to my 
 country, I earnestly beg the attention of Congress and the people 
 to the subject. 
 
 Hasten the day, just Heaven! 
 
 Accomplish thy design; 
 And let the blessings thou hast freely given, 
 
 Freely on all men shine; 
 Till equal rights be equally enjoy'd, 
 And human power for human good employ'd; 
 Till late, and not the sovereign, rule sustain, 
 And peace and virtue undisputed reign. 
 
 Henry Ware, Jr. 
 
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 MAY 5 
 
 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way. Proverbs 14 : 8. 
 
 (Prom a letter to A. G. Hedges, Franfort, Kentucky, 
 April 4, 1864.) 
 
 I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing 
 is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel. 
 And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred 
 upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment 
 and feeling. It was in the oath I took, that I would, to the best 
 of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the 
 United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. 
 Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get power, and 
 break the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that, in 
 ordinary civil administration, this oath even forbade me to prac- 
 tically indulge my primary, abstract judgment on the moral ques- 
 tion of slavery. I had publicly declared this many times, and in 
 many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official 
 act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on 
 slavery. 
 
 Sun of the moral world I effulgent source 
 Of man's best wisdom and his steadiest force, 
 Soul-searching Freedom! here assume thu stand, 
 And radiate hence to every distant land. 
 
 Joel Barlow. 
 
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 MAY 6 
 
 He shall not fall nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the 
 earth. Isaiah 42 : 4. 
 
 palpable 
 
 (Prom a letter to A. G. Hodges, April 4, 1864. Continued 
 from preceding page.) 
 
 When, in March and May and July, 1862, I made earnest and 
 successive appeals to the Border States to favor compensated 
 emancipation, I believed the indispensable necessity for military 
 emancipation and arming the blacks would come, unless averted 
 by that measure. They declined the proposition, and I was, in my 
 best judgment, driven to the alternative of either surrendering 
 the Union, and with it the Constitution, or of laying strong hand 
 upon the colored element. I chose the latter. In choosing it, I 
 hoped for greater gain than loss; but of this I was entirely confi- 
 dent. More than a year of trial can show no loss by it, in our 
 foreign relations; none in our home popular sentiment; none in 
 our white military force no loss by it anyhow or anywhere. On 
 the contrary, it shows a gain of quite a hundred and thirty thou- 
 sand soldiers, seamen, and laborers. These are palpable facts, 
 about which, as facts, there can be no caviling. We have the 
 men, and we could not have had them without the measure. 
 
 There was something 
 
 In my native air that buoyed my spirits up 
 Like a ship on the ocean tossed by storms, 
 But proudly still bestriding the hi(;h waves 
 And holding on her course. 
 
 Byron. 
 
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 MAY 7 
 
 The whole disposing thereof Is of the Lord. Proverbs 16 : 33. 
 
 (Efcentg ^abe Controlled 
 
 (From letter addressed to A. G. Hodges, April 4, 1864. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 I attempt no compliments to my own sagacity. I claim not to 
 have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have con- 
 trolled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's 
 condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. 
 God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain. If 
 God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that 
 we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for 
 our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein 
 new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God. 
 
 The future faith must ever souls inspire 
 
 With loftiest love of goodness, justice, truth, 
 
 Imbue, head, hand, and heart with strong desire 
 
 To lift humanity to higher plains, to teach the youth 
 
 That all are children of one common Sire, 
 
 Who loves to have his offspring mounting higher, higher, 
 
 Cementing in one vast, all-comprehending family 
 
 The nations of to-day with the nations that are yet to 'be. 
 
 This creed, the essence of our holy Christianity, 
 
 Shall fill the world and last through all eternity. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 8 
 
 Many are my persecutors and mine enemies ; yet do I not decline from 
 thy testimonies. Psalms 119 : 157. 
 
 on 
 
 (To an army officer.) 
 
 If I were to try to read, much less answer all the attacks made 
 on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. 
 I do the very best I know how the very best I can; and I mean 
 to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, 
 what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end 
 brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make 
 no difference. 
 
 He knows it all how tired I grew 
 
 When pressing duties that I knew 
 Were mine, I left in part undone, 
 
 And how I grieved at set of sun, 
 And could not rest till his sweet tone 
 
 Of calming love had gently shown 
 Me that he did not blame he knew 
 
 That I had tried my best to do. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 MAY 9 
 
 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise ; 
 be thankful unto him, and bless his name. Psalms 100 : 4. 
 
 Special (Bratitu&e ta 
 
 (Prayer and Thanksgiving Proclamation, issued May 9, 1864.) 
 
 To THE FRIENDS OF UNION AND LIBERTY: Enough is known of 
 army operations within the last five days to claim our special 
 gratitude to God. While what remains undone demands our most 
 serious prayers to, and reliance upon Him (without whom all 
 human effort is vain), I recommend that all patriots, at their 
 homes, at their places of public worship, and wherever they may 
 be, unite in common thanksgiving and prayer to Almighty God. 
 
 Great Ruler of the earth and skies, 
 
 A word of thine almighty breath 
 Can sink a world, or bid it rise: 
 
 Thy smile is life, thy frown is death. 
 
 To thee we pay our grateful songs, 
 
 Thy kind protection still implore; 
 Oh, may our hearts and lives and tongues 
 
 Confess thy goodness and adore. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 MAY 10 
 
 Blessed are the merciful ; for they shall obtain mercy. Matthew 5 : 7. 
 
 C5ot &toap JFrom 
 
 (To a party of gentlemen who, as the war was closing, 
 were very anxious to know what he would do with Jeff. 
 Davis, President of the Confederate States.) 
 
 There was a boy in Springfield who saved up his money and 
 bought a coon, which, after the novelty wore off, became a great 
 nuisance. He was one day leading him through the streets, and 
 had his hands full to keep clear of the little vixen, who had torn 
 his clothes half off of him. At length he sat down on the curb- 
 stone, completely fagged out. A man passing was stopped by the 
 lad's disconsolate appearance, and asked the matter. "Oh," was 
 the reply, "this coon is such a trouble to me!" "Why don't you 
 get rid of him, then?" said the gentleman. "Hush!" said the boy; 
 "don't you see he is gnawing his rope off? I am going to let him 
 do it, and then I will go home and tell the folks that he got away 
 from me." 
 
 Sense is our helmet, wit is tut the plume. 
 The plume exposes, 't is our helmet saves. 
 Sense is the di'mond, weighty, solid, sound; 
 When cut by -wit, it casts a brighter beam; 
 Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still. 
 
 Young. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 11 
 
 The Rlory of young men Is their strength. Proverbs 20 : 20. 
 
 I (Earnm S$p jFtrgt SDolIar. j12o. t. 
 
 (Related in the presence of Hon. W. H. Seward and others.) 
 
 Seward, you never heard, did you, how I earned my first dollar? 
 Well, I was about eighteen years of age. I belonged, you know, 
 to what they call, down South, the "scrubs"; people who do not 
 own slaves are nobody there. But we had succeeded in raising, 
 chiefly by my labor, sufficient produce, as I thought, to justify me 
 in taking it down the river to sell. After much persuasion, I got 
 the consent of mother to go, and constructed a little flatboat, large 
 enough to take a barrel or two of things that we had gathered, 
 with myself and little bundle, down to New Orleans. A steamer 
 was coming down the river. We have, you know, no wharves on 
 the Western streams; and the custom was, if passengers were at 
 any of the landings, for them to go out in a boat, the steamer 
 stopping and taking them on board. 
 
 Doicn the smooth stream of life the stripling darts, 
 Gay as the morn; bright glows the vernal sky. 
 Hope swells the sails, and passion steers his course 
 Safe glides his bark along the shore 
 Where virtue takes her stand; but if too far 
 He launches forth beitond discretion's mark, 
 Sudden the tempest scowls, the surges roar, 
 Blot his fair play, and plunge him in the deep. 
 
 Porteus. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 12 
 
 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee In the 
 days of thy youth. Ecclesiastes 11 : 9. 
 
 31 (Earned $v f ittft 2DoUac. $0. 2, 
 
 (Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 I was contemplating my new flatboat, and wondering whether 
 I could make it stronger or improve it in any particular, when 
 two men came down to the shore in carriages with trunks, and, 
 looking at the different boats, singled out mine, and asked, "Who 
 owns this?" I answered, somewhat modestly, "I do." "Will you," 
 said one of them, "take us and our trunks out to the steamer?" 
 "Certainly," said I. I was very glad to have the chance of earning 
 something. I supposed that each of them would give me two or 
 three bits. The trunks were put on my fiatboat, the passengers 
 seated themselves on the trunks, and I sculled them out to the 
 steamboat. They got on board, and I lifted up their heavy trunks 
 and put them on deck. The steamer was about to put on steam 
 again, when I called out that they had forgotten to pay me. Each 
 of them took from his pocket a silver half-dollar, and threw it on 
 the floor of my boat. I could scarcely believe my eyes as I picked 
 up the money. Gentlemen, you may think it was a very little 
 thing, and in these days it seems to me a trifle; but it was a most 
 important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, a 
 poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day that by honest 
 work I had earned a dollar. The world seemed wider and fairer 
 before me. I was a more hopeful and confident being from that 
 time. 
 
 Promise of youth ! fair as the form 
 
 Of Heaven's benign and (/olden bow, 
 Thy smiling arch begirds the storm 
 
 And sheds a light on every woe. 
 
 James O. Brooks. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 13 
 
 The Lord hath done great things for us ; whereof we are glad. Psalms 
 126 : 3. 
 
 C3Iad at Wat ^a0 happened. 
 
 (In response to a serenade after the important victories in 
 the "Wilderness," in May, 1864.) 
 
 I am very much obliged to you for the compliment of this call, 
 though I apprehend it is owing more to the good news received 
 to-day from the army than to a desire to see me. I am, indeed, 
 very grateful to the brave men who have been struggling with 
 the enemy in the field, to their noble commanders who have 
 directed them, and especially to our Maker. Our commanders 
 are following up their victories resolutely and successfully. I 
 think, without knowing the particulars of the plans of General 
 Grant, that what has been accomplished is of more importance 
 than at first appears. I believe I know (and am especially grate- 
 ful to know) that General Grant has not been jostled in his pur- 
 poses; that he has made all his points; and to-day he is on his 
 line, as he purposed before he moved his armies. I will volunteer 
 to say that I am very glad at what has happened; but there is a 
 great deal still to be done. While we are grateful to all the brave 
 men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, 
 above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gave us the 
 victory. 
 
 Ah, never shall the land forget 
 How gushed the life-blood of the brave, 
 Gushed 'warm with hope and courage yet, 
 Upon the soil they fought to save. 
 
 Bryant. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 14 
 
 The churches of Christ salute you. Romans 16 : 16. 
 
 (Bob 751(00 Sill W^t C&urrl&rs. 
 
 (In response to a delegation, headed by Bishop Ames, from 
 the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 May 14, 1864.) 
 
 GENTLEMEN: In response to your address, allow me to attest 
 the accuracy of its historical statements, endorse the sentiments 
 it expresses, and thank you, in the Nation's name, for the sure 
 promise it gives. Nobly sustained, as the Government has been 
 by all the churches, I would utter nothing which might in the 
 least appear invidious against any. Yet, without this, it may 
 fairly be said that the Methodist Episcopal Church, not less de- 
 voted than the best, is, by its greater numbers, the most impor- 
 tant of all. It is no fault in others that the Methodist Church 
 sends more soldiers to the field, more nurses to the hospitals, and 
 more prayers to heaven than any. God bless the Methodist 
 Church; bless all the churches; and blessed be God, who, in this 
 our great trial, giveth us the churches. 
 
 Like a mighty army moves the Church of God; 
 Brothers, we are treading where the saints have trod; 
 We are not divided, all one body we 
 One in hope and doctrine, one in charity. 
 
 8. B. Gould. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 15 
 
 Our help is in the name of the Lord. Psalms 124 
 
 SDtbiiu interposition and Jabor. 
 
 (From his reply to Presbyterian clergyman, in May, 1863.) 
 
 It has been my happiness to receive testimonies of a similar 
 nature from, I believe, all denominations of Christians. They are 
 all loyal, but perhaps not in the same degree, or in the same num- 
 bers, but I think they all claim to be loyal. This to me is most 
 gratifying, because from the beginning I saw that the issue of 
 our great struggle depended upon the Divine interposition and 
 favor. If we had that, all would be well. The proportions of this 
 rebellion were not for a long time understood. I saw that it in- 
 volved the greatest difficulties, and would call forth all the powers 
 of the country. The end is not yet. ... As a pilot I have used 
 my best exertions to keep afloat our ship of state, and shall be 
 glad to resign my trust at the appointed time to another pilot, 
 more skillful and successful than I may prove. In every case and 
 at all hazards, the Government must be perpetuated. Relying as 
 I do upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by the 
 resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I 
 receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the 
 means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, 
 and will hope for success. 
 
 Lead safely through, O God, we pray, 
 Lead us, O lead us all the way. 
 We are tut safe when safe with thee, 
 No other safety can there be; 
 Pitfalls and darkness strew our way, 
 Lead us, dear Father, lead, we pray. 
 
 Dr. I. L. Kephart. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 16 
 
 This man's religion is vain. James 1 : 26. 
 
 t&e lEUoilt llinti of Edigicn. 
 
 (To a lady from Tennessee, when he ordered the release of 
 her husband as a prisoner of war.) 
 
 You say your husband is a religious man; tell him, when you 
 meet him, that I am not much of a judge of religion, but that in 
 my opinion the religion which sets men to rebel and fight against 
 their government, because, as they think, that government does 
 not sufficiently help some men to eat their bread in the sweat of 
 other men's faces, is not the sort of religion upon which people 
 can get to heaven. 
 
 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, 
 Till thou return unto the ground; for thou 
 Out of the ground wast taken, know thy 'birth, 
 For dust thou art, and shalt to du#t return. 
 
 Milton.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 17 
 
 Can ye not discern the signs of the times ? Matthew 16. 3. 
 
 ot tS 
 
 (An appeal to the slave States to adopt gradual emanci- 
 pation, with compensation, May 19, 1862.) 
 
 To the people of these States I now earnestly appeal. I do not 
 argue; I beseech you to make the arguments for yourselves. You 
 cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of the times. I beg of 
 you a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may 
 be, far above personal and partisan politics. This proposal makes 
 common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches upon 
 any. It acts not the Pharisee. The change it contemplates would 
 come gently as the dews of heaven, not rending or wrecking any- 
 thing. You will not embrace it? So much good has not been done 
 by one effort in all the past, as, in the providence of God, it is now 
 your high privilege to do. May the vast future not have to lament 
 that you have neglected it. 
 
 We are living, ice are dwelling 
 
 In a grand and aicful time, 
 In an aye on ages telling 
 
 To be living is sublime. 
 
 Oh! let all the soul within you 
 For the truth's sake go abroad; 
 
 Strike! let every nerve and sinew 
 Tell on ages tell for Qod. 
 
 A. C. Coxe. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 18 
 
 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles. 
 Proverbs 21 : 23. 
 
 3J Mill J]2ot Eu?> 3t 
 
 (To a party who wished to negotiate for rewards for 
 promise of influence in the Chicago Convention, May, 1860. 
 
 No, gentlemen, I have not asked for the nomination, and I will 
 not now buy it with pledges. If I am nominated and elected I 
 shall not go into the presidency as the tool of this man or that 
 man, or as the property of any factor or clique. 
 
 (In response to fi telearam from the Chicago Nominating 
 Convention, May 17, 1860, requesting him to make certain 
 pledges.) 
 
 I authorize no bargains, and will be bound by none. 
 
 (To those standing by when he received the dispatch an- 
 nouncing his nomination, May 18, 1860.) 
 
 Gentlemen, you had better come up and shake my hand while 
 you can; honors elevate some men, you know. Well, gentlemen, 
 there is a little short women at our house who is probably more 
 interested in this dispatch than I am; if you will excuse me, I 
 will take it up and let her see it. 
 
 O honored name, revered and undecaying, 
 Engraven on each heart, O soul sublime! 
 
 That, like a planet through the heavens straying, 
 Outlives the icreck of time. 
 
 Eufjene J. Hall. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 19 
 
 I have exalted one chosen out of the people. Psalms 89 : 19. 
 
 tlje C5nr at l&egpongibilitp. 
 
 (Reply to the committee formally announcing his first nom- 
 ination for the Presidency, at his home in Springfield, Illi- 
 nois, May 19, 1860.) 
 
 I tender to you, and through you to the Republican National 
 Convention, and all the people represented in it, my profoundest 
 thanks for the high honor done me, which you now formally 
 announce. Deeply, and even painfully sensible of the great re- 
 sponsibility which is inseparable from this high honor a respon- 
 sibility which I could almost wish had fallen upon some one of the 
 far more eminent men and experienced statesmen whose distin- 
 guished names were before the convention, I shall, by your leave, 
 consider more fully the resolutions of the convention, denom- 
 inated the platform, and, without any unnecessary or unreason- 
 able delay, respond to you, Mr. Chairman, in writing, not doubting 
 that the platform will be found satisfactory, and the nomination 
 gratefully accepted. 
 
 His life was gentle; and the elements 
 
 So mixed in 'him, that nature might stand up 
 
 And say to all the world, This is a man. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 20 
 
 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee. Le- 
 viticus 10 : 9. 
 
 (To the committee, after his response to their notifying 
 him of his nomination, at his home in Springfield, Illinois, 
 May 19, 1860.) 
 
 Gentlemen, we must pledge our mutual healths in the most 
 healthy beverage which God has given to man. It is the only 
 beverage I have ever used or allowed in my family, and I cannot 
 conscientiously depart from it on the present occasion; it is pure 
 Adam's ale from the spring. 
 
 Oh, you need not offer brewer's liquid bitterness to me, 
 I will buy no unclean lager when a better drink is free. 
 
 No, I do not want your whiskey with its venom and its sting; 
 I will fill my glass with water, pure, cold water at the spring. 
 Wine may tempt the very thoughtless, but I cannot see the charm 
 In a glass so full of evil, when cold water does no harm. 
 
 Pure, cold water just suits me, 
 I will buy no baneful poisons when cold water is so free. 
 
 W. G. Martin. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 21 
 
 He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. II. 
 Samuel 23 : 3. 
 
 to C 
 
 (Letter of acceptance addressed to Hon. George Ashmun, 
 president of National Convention, dated May 23, 1860.) 
 
 I accept the nomination tendered me by the convention over 
 which you presided, and of which I am formally apprised in the 
 letter of yourself and others, acting as a committee of the conven- 
 tion for that purpose. The declaration of principles and senti- 
 ments, which accompanies your letter, meets my approval; and it 
 shall be my care not to violate or disregard it in any part. Im- 
 ploring the assistance of Divine Providence, and with due regard 
 to the views and feelings of all who were represented in the con- 
 vention; to the rights of all the States, and Territories, and the 
 people of the Nation; to the inviolability of the Constitution, and 
 to the perpetual union, harmony, and prosperity of all, I am most 
 happy to cooperate for the practical success of the principles de- 
 clared by the convention. 
 
 No north, no south, no east, no west, 
 
 But one, united,, free! 
 The Palm and, Pine in Union blest 
 
 Now stand for liberty. 
 From lakes to gulf, from sea to sea, 
 
 May union stronger grow; 
 Thus teach the tcorld humanity 
 
 And might together go. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 22 
 
 Fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. 
 Isaiah 51 : 7. 
 
 bt Part? JLbtfz and l&ftucule. 
 
 (Prom a speech delivered In Bloomington, before the first 
 Republican State Convention In Illinois, May 29, 1856.) 
 
 The party lash and the fear of ridicule will overawe justice and 
 liberty; for it is a singular fact, but none the less a fact, and well 
 known by the most common experience, that men will do things 
 under the terror of the party lash that they would not on any 
 account or for any consideration do otherwise. Men who will 
 march up to the mouth of a loaded cannon without shrinking 
 will run from the terrible name of "Abolitionist," even when pro- 
 nounced by a worthless creature whom they, with good reason, 
 despise. 
 
 The brave man seeks not popular applause, 
 Nor overpowered with arms deserts Ms cause; 
 Unsham'd though foil'd, he does the best he can, 
 Force is of brutes, but honor is of man, 
 
 Dryden.
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 23 
 
 Ye will revolt more and more. Isaiah 1 : 5. 
 
 CBo Sacfefoarfc. 
 
 (Extract from speech before the first Republican State 
 Convention, held at Bloomington, Illinois, May 29, 1856. Con- 
 tinued from preceding page.) 
 
 Like the great Juggernaut, the great idol, it crushes everything 
 that comes in its way, and makes a or, as I read once, in a black- 
 letter law book, "a slave is a human being who is legally not a 
 person but a thing." If the safeguards to liberty are broken 
 down, as is now attempted, when they have made things of all the 
 free negroes, how long, think you, before they will begin to make 
 things out of poor white men? Be not deceived. Revolutions do 
 not go backward. The founder of the Democratic party declared 
 that all men were created equal. His successor in the leadership 
 has written the word "white" before men, making it read "all 
 white men are created equal." Pray, will or may not the Know- 
 nothings, if they should get in power, add the v.ord "Protestant," 
 making it read "all Protestant white men"? 
 
 Oh! think what anxious moments pass between 
 The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods; 
 Oh ! 't is a dreadful interval of time, 
 Fill'd with horror, and big with death. 
 
 Addison. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 24 
 
 Let your moderation be known to all men. Philippians 4 : 5. 
 
 Pacific 
 
 (Extract from speech before first Republican State Con- 
 vention held in Bloomington, Illinois, May 29, 1856. Con- 
 tinued from preceding page.) 
 
 As it now stands, we must appeal to the sober sense and patriot- 
 ism of the people. We shall make converts day by day; we shall 
 grow strong by calmness and moderation; we shall grow strong by 
 the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth 
 be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we shall be in the majority 
 after a while, and then the revolution which we shall accomplish 
 will be none the less radical from being the result of pacific meas- 
 ures. The battle of freedom is to be fought out on principle. 
 Slavery is a violation of the eternal right. We have temporized 
 with it from the necessities of our condition; but as sure as God 
 reigns and schoolchildren read, that black, foul lie can never be 
 consecrated into God's hallowed truth. 
 
 And when our children turn the page, 
 
 To ask what triumphs marked our age 
 
 What ice achieved to challenge praise, 
 
 Through the long line of future days 
 
 This let them read, and hence instruction draw: 
 
 "Here were the many bless'd, 
 
 Here found the virtues rest, 
 Faith link'd with Love, and Liberty with Law." 
 
 Sprague. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 25 
 
 Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians 6 : 7. 
 
 Pote Against gour JJntert 0t and Principles. 
 
 (Extract from speech before first Republican State Conven- 
 tion, at Bloomington, Illinois, May 29, 1856. Continued from 
 preceding page.) 
 
 Once let slavery get planted in a locality, by ever so weak or 
 doubtful title, and ever so small numbers, and it is like the Can- 
 ada thistle or Bermuda grass you can't root it out. You yourself 
 may detest slavery; but your neighbor has five or six slaves, and 
 he is an excellent neighbor, or your son has married his daughter, 
 and they beg you to help save their property, and you vote against 
 your interest and principle to accommodate a neighbor, hoping 
 that your vote will be on the losing side. And others do the same; 
 and in those ways slavery gets a sure foothold. And when that is 
 done the whole mighty Union the force of the Nation is com- 
 mitted to its support. 
 
 Man should dare all things that he knows are right, 
 And fear to do no act save what is wrong; 
 
 But, guided safely l)y his inward light, 
 And with a permanent belief, and strong, 
 
 In Him who is our Father and our Friend, 
 
 He should walk steadfastly unto the end. 
 
 Phoebe Gary. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 20 
 
 The Lord opened the eyes of the young man ; and he saw ; and, behold, 
 the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire. II. Kings 6 : 17. 
 
 ot tfie fllmon. 
 
 (Extract from speech before the first Republican State 
 (Convention at Bloomington, Illinois, May 29, 1856. Con- 
 tinued, from preceding page.) 
 
 The Union is undergoing a fearful strain; but it is a stout old 
 ship, and has weathered many a hard blow, and "the stars in their 
 courses," aye, an invisible power, greater than the puny efforts of 
 men, will fight for us. But we ourselves must not decline the 
 burden of responsibility, nor take counsel of unworthy passions. 
 Whatever duty urges us to do or to omit, must be done or omitted; 
 and the recklessness with which our adversaries break the laws, 
 or counsel their violation, should afford no example for us. 
 Therefore, let us revere the Declaration of Independence; let us 
 continue to obey the Constitution and the laws; let us keep step 
 to the music of the Union. 
 
 Yes! rear thy guardian Hero's form 
 
 On thy proud soil, thou Western World! 
 A watcher through each sign of storm, 
 
 O'er Freedom's flag unfurl'd. 
 There as before a shrine ye bow, 
 
 Bid thy true sons their children lead; 
 The language of that noble brow 
 
 For all things good shall plead. 
 
 Mrs. Hemans. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 27 
 
 Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. 
 I. Corinthians 9 : 25. 
 
 Si SDitf icult Kole, 
 
 (Extract from letter written May 27, 1863, to General 
 Schofleld, who had been appointed to command in Missouri 
 In place of General Curtis, who had been removed on account 
 of local difficulties.) 
 
 After months of labor to reconcile the difficulty, it seemed to 
 grow worse and worse, until I felt it my duty to break it up some- 
 how, and as I. could not remove Governor Gamble, I had to remove 
 General Curtis. Now that you are in the position, I wish you to 
 undo nothing merely because General Curtis or Governor Gamble 
 did it, but to exercise your own judgment, and do right for the 
 public interest. Let your military measures be strong enough to 
 repel the invaders and keep the peace, and not so strong as to 
 unnecessarily harass and persecute the people. It is a difficult 
 role, and so much greater will be the honor if you perform it well. 
 If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be 
 about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the 
 other. 
 
 Those are bravest icho shall rise 
 
 All earthly ills above, 
 And -wear the crown of high emprise 
 
 In meekness and in love; 
 The sun may leave the mossy vales, 
 
 Yet lap the hills in glorious light; 
 Look up ! God's wisdom never -fails, 
 
 He leads us through the night. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 28 
 
 His locks are bushy, and black as a raven. Solomon's Song 5 : 11. 
 
 (To Colonel Cannon.) 
 
 By the way, I can tell you a good story about my hair. When 
 I was nominated at Chicago, an enterprising fellow thought that 
 a great many people would like to see how Abe Lincoln looked, 
 and, as I had not long before sat for a photograph, the fellow, 
 having seen it, rushed over and bought the negative. He at once 
 got out no end of wood-cuts, and so active was their circulation 
 they were soon selling in all parts of the country. Soon after they 
 reached Springfield I heard a boy crying them for sale on the 
 streets. "Here's your likeness of Abe Lincoln!" he shouted. 
 "Buy one, price only two shillings! Will look a good deal better 
 when he gets his hair combed!" 
 
 His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkept bristling hair, 
 
 His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, 
 His lack of all we prize as debonair, 
 
 Of power or will to shine, of art to please; 
 
 My shalloic judgment I had learned to rue, 
 
 Noting how to occasion's height he rose; 
 How hi-s quaint wit made home truth seem more true, 
 
 How iron-like his temper grew by blows. 
 
 Tom Taylor. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 29 
 
 Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee. Gensls 13 : 8. 
 
 an* 
 
 (In reply to a friend, who, with many others was sur- 
 prised that the President took no official notice of General 
 Phelps, who had issued a proclamation early In the war, 
 freeing slaves near New Orleans.) 
 
 Well, I feel about that a good deal as a man whom I will call 
 Jones, whom I once knew, did about his wife. He was one of 
 your meek men, and had the reputation of being badly henpecked. 
 At last, one day his wife was seen switching him out of the house. 
 A day or two afterward a friend met him in the street, and said: 
 "Jones, I have always stood up for you, as you know; but I am 
 not going to do it any longer. Any man who will stand quietly 
 and take a switching from his wife, deserves to be horsewhipped." 
 Jones looked up with a wink, patting his friend on the back. 
 
 "Now, don't," said he; "why, it didn't hurt me any; and you've 
 no idea what a power of good it did Sarah Ann." 
 
 Jerry, dying intestate, his relatives claimed, 
 While his widow most vilely his mem'ry defamed. 
 "What .'" cries she, "must I suffer because the old knave, 
 Without leaving a will, is laid snug in the grave?" 
 "That 's no wonder," says one, "for 't is very well known, 
 Since he married, poor man, he 'd no will of his own." 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 MAY 30 (Decoration Day) 
 
 Go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword. Jeremiah 
 14 : 18. 
 
 Dabi- Come to SDcdicate. 
 
 (Delivered at the dedication of the National Cemetery at 
 the Gettysburg battlefield, November 19, 1863.) 
 
 Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on 
 this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated 
 to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now, we are 
 engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any 
 nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are 
 met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate 
 a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here 
 gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fit- 
 ting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, 
 we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this 
 ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here 
 have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. 
 The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, 
 but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, 
 rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they 
 who fought here have so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be 
 here dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from 
 these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for 
 which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here 
 highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that 
 this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and 
 that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall 
 not perish from the earth. 
 
 Great leader true! throughout all time 
 
 The world will hear thy voice; 
 Because of thee a holier clime 
 Hid libert/i rejoice! 
 'T icas fitting you should tell of those 
 
 Who wrote in blood their song, 
 And here thy nobler thought disclose 
 
 How nations shall be strong! 
 
 Mary M. Adams. 
 
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 MAY 31 
 
 Glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good. Romans 
 2: 10. 
 
 (Extract from a letter to Honorable J. H. Bryant, May 
 30, 1864, in reply to an invitation to attend a meeting to 
 take measures to erect a monument to the memory of Hon- 
 orable Owen Lovejoy.) 
 
 My personal acquaintance with him commenced only about ten 
 years ago, since when it has been quite intimate; and every step 
 in it has been one of increasing respect and esteem, ending with 
 his life, in no less affection on my part. It can be truly said of 
 him, that, while he was personally ambitious, he bravely endured 
 the obscurity which the unpopularity of his principles imposed, 
 and never accepted official honors until those honors were ready 
 to admit his principles with him. Throughout my heavy and per- 
 plexing responsibilities here to the day of his death, it would 
 scarcely wrong any other to say he was my most generous friend. 
 Let him have the marble monument, along with the well-assured 
 and more endearing one in the hearts of those who love liberty 
 unselfishly for all men. 
 
 For this is the lesson that history 
 
 Has taught since the world began, 
 That those whose memories never die, 
 That shine like stars in our human sky 
 And brighter grow as the years roll by, 
 Are men who have lived for man. 
 
 W. A. Edgerton. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JUNE! 1 (Children's Day) 
 
 The children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of 
 David. Matthew 21 : 15. 
 
 Sermon to Bop0. JLittlt 
 
 (Mr. Lincoln often gave the following advice, which he 
 called his "sermon" to boys.) 
 
 Don't drink, don't smoke, don't chew, don't swear, don't gamble, 
 don't lie, don't cheat. Love your fellow-men and love God. Love 
 truth, love virtue, and be happy. 
 
 (In answer to a memorial from the children and young 
 people of Concord, Massachusetts, petitioning for the free- 
 dom of all slave children.) 
 
 Tell those little people I am very glad their young hearts are 
 so full of just and generous sympathy, and that while I have not 
 the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that 
 God has; and that it seems his will to do it. 
 
 Ah ! what would the world be to us 
 
 If the children were no more 
 We should dread the desert behind us 
 
 Worse than the dark before. 
 
 Lonyfcllow. 
 
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 JU1VE 2 
 
 Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude ; for the 
 battle is not yours, but God's. II. Chronicles 20 : 15. 
 
 j|2ot Unmindful of t&e fetruggle. 
 
 (Said in the presence of Ex-Senator J. F. Wilson and 
 others, in June, 1862.) 
 
 I not only believe that Providence is not unmindful of the 
 struggle in which this nation is engaged, but I also believe that 
 he will compel us to do right in order that he may do these things, 
 not so much because we desire them, as because they accord with 
 his plans of dealing with this nation, in the midst of which he 
 means to establish justice. I think he means that we shall do 
 more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans, and he 
 will yet open the way for our doing it. I have felt his hand upon 
 me in great trials, and submitted to his guidance, and I trust that 
 as he shall further open the way I will be ready to walk therein, 
 relying on his help and trusting to his goodness and wisdom. 
 
 Leave God to order all tlty ways, 
 
 And hope in him, whate'cr betide; 
 Thou 'It find him in the evil days 
 
 Thy all sufficient strength and guide. 
 
 George Neumarck. 
 
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 JUNE 3 
 
 Do justly and love mercy. Mlcah 6 : 8. 
 
 Parallel Ca0r. 
 
 (To Attorney-General Bates, who requested, as a personal 
 favor, the parole of the son of an old friend in Virginia, who 
 had been captured.) 
 
 Bates, I have an almost parallel case. The son of an old friend 
 of mine in Illinois ran off and entered the rebel army. The young 
 fool has been captured, and is a prisoner of war, and his old 
 broken-hearted father has asked me to send him home, promising, 
 of course, to keep him there. I have not seen my way clear to do 
 it; but if you and I unite our influence with this administration, 
 I believe we can manage it together and make two loyal fathers 
 happy. Let us make them our prisoners. 
 
 'T is mercy! mercy! 
 
 The mark of Heav'n impress' 'd on humankind; 
 Mercy that glads the world, deals joy around; 
 Mercy that smooths the dreadful brow of power, 
 And makes dominion light; mercy that saves, 
 Binds up the broken heart, and heals despair. 
 
 Rowe. 
 
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 JUNE 4 
 
 It came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land. Acts 27 : 44 
 
 'H (Efrt 
 
 (In reply, at the White House, to some gentlemen from 
 the West, who were excited and troubled about the commis- 
 sions or omissions of the Administration.) 
 
 Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in 
 gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across 
 the Niagara River on a rope, would you shake the cable, or keep 
 shouting out to him, "Blondin, stand up a little straighter Blon- 
 din, stoop a little more go a little faster lean a little more to 
 the north lean a little more to the south?" No! you would hold 
 your breath as well as your tongue, and keep your hands off until 
 he \vas safe over. The Government is carrying an immense 
 v, eight. Untold treasures are in their hands. They are doing the 
 very best they can. Don't badger them. Keep silence, and we '11 
 get you safe across. 
 
 From storms of rage and dangerous rocks of pride, 
 Let thy strong hand this little vessel guide. 
 It was thy hand that made it: through the tide 
 Impetuous of this life let thy command 
 Direct my course and bring me safe to land. 
 
 Prior. 
 
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 JUNE 5 
 
 Good tidings of your faith and charity. I. Thessalonians 3 : 6. 
 
 (In response to the chairman of a delegation of the Chris- 
 tian Commission, the members having rendered aid and re- 
 freshments to wounded soldiers of the terrible series of 
 battles in the Wilderness, in 1864.) 
 
 I desire also to add to what I have said, that there is one asso- 
 ciation whose objects and motives I have never heard in any 
 degree impugned or questioned; and that is the Christian commis- 
 sion. And in "these days of villainy," as Shakespeare pays, that 
 is a record, gentlemen, of which you may justly be proud! 
 
 (Later, in a conversational tone.) 
 
 T believe, however, it is old "Jack Falstaff" who talks about 
 "villainy," though of course Shakespeare is responsible. 
 
 Oh, may our sympathizing breasts 
 
 That generous pleasure knoic, 
 Kindly to share in others' joy 
 
 And iceep for others' woe. 
 
 When poor and helpless sons of grief 
 
 In deep distress are laid, 
 Soft lie our hearts their pains to feel, 
 
 And swift our hands to aid. 
 
 Doddridge. 
 
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 JUNE 6 
 
 Because thou didst rely on the Lord, he delivered them into thine hand. 
 II. Chronicles 16 : 8. 
 
 TO ole lEUIiancr in (Bob. 
 
 (To the synod of the old-school Presbyterians of Balti- 
 more, who waited on him in a body.) 
 
 I saw upon taking my position here, I was going to have an 
 administration, if administration at all, of extraordinary diffi- 
 culty. It was without exception a time of the greatest difficulty 
 this country ever saw. I was early brought to a lively reflection 
 that nothing in my power, or others, to rely upon would succeed 
 without direct assistance from the Almighty. I have often wished 
 that I was a more devout man than I am. Nevertheless, amid the 
 greatest difficulties of my administration, when I could not see 
 any other resort, I would place my whole reliance in God, know- 
 ing that he would decide for the right. 
 
 Just as God leads, I onward go, 
 Oft amid thorns and briars keen; 
 
 God does not yet his guidance show, 
 
 But in the end it shall be seen 
 
 How, by a loving Father's will, 
 
 Faithful and true, he leads me still, 
 
 My trembling footsteps guiding. 
 
 Lampertins. 
 
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 JUNE 7 
 
 A man beholding his natural face in a glass. James 1 : 23. 
 
 Si feinffular ^Occurrence, 
 
 (Related to Mr. F. B. Carpenter and Major John Hay on 
 the evening of his second nomination, June 8, 1864.) 
 
 A very singular occurrence took place the day I was nominated 
 at Chicago, four years ago, of which I am reminded to-night. In 
 the afternoon of the day, returning home from down town, I went 
 upstairs to Mrs. Lincoln's sitting-room. Feeling somewhat tired, 
 I lay down upon a couch in the room directly opposite a bureau 
 upon which was a looking-glass. As I reclined, my eyes fell upon 
 the glass, and I saw distinctly two images of myself, exactly alike, 
 except that one was a little paler than the other. I arose, and 
 lay down again, with the same result. It made me quite uncom- 
 fortable for a few moments, but some friends coming in, the mat- 
 ter passed out of my mind. The next day, while walking in the 
 street, I was suddenly reminded of the circumstance, and the dis- 
 agreeable sensation produced by it returned. I had never seen 
 anything of the kind before, and I did not know what to make 
 of it. I determined to go home and place myself in the same 
 position, and if the same effect was produced, I would make up 
 my mind that it was the result of some principle of refraction or 
 optics which I did not understand, and dismiss it. I tried the 
 experiment with a like result; and, as I said to myself, accounting 
 for it on some principle unknown to me, it ceased to trouble me. 
 But some time ago I tried to produce the same effect here, by 
 arranging a glass and a couch in the same position, without suc- 
 cess. 
 
 A mirror has been well defined 
 An emblem of a thoughtful mind, 
 For, look upon it when you will, 
 You find it is reflecting still. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 JUNE 8 
 
 What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. 
 Matthew 19 : 6. 
 
 Joint j^arneg of Eibcttp and flflnion. 
 
 (Part of the response to the committee, June 9, informing 
 him of his second nomination for the Presidency at Balti- 
 more, Maryland, June 8, 1864.) 
 
 I know no reason to doubt that I shall accept the nomination 
 tendered, and yet perhaps I should not declare definitely before 
 reading and considering what is called the platform. I will say 
 now, however, that I approve the declaration of so amending the 
 Constitution as to prohibit slavery throughout the nation. When 
 the people in revolt, with the hundred days' explicit notice that 
 they could within these days resume their allegiance without the 
 overthrow of their institution, and that they could not resume it. 
 afterward, elected to stand out, such an amendment of the Con- 
 stitution as is now proposed became a fitting and necessary condi- 
 tion to the final success of the Union cause. Such alone can meet 
 and cover cavils. I now perceive its importance and embrace it. 
 In the joint names of Liberty and Union, let us labor to give legal 
 form and practical effort. 
 
 Sprinkled icj,th starry light, 
 Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore, 
 
 While through the sounding sky 
 
 Loud rings the nation's cry, 
 "Union and Liberty! one evermore!" 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 JUNE 9 
 
 Then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then shalt thou have 
 good success. Joshua, 1 : 8. 
 
 t|an Baltimore Contentions. 
 
 (In response to the Ohio delegation in the Baltimore Nom- 
 inating Convention, June 9, 1864.) 
 
 GENTLEMEN: I am very much obliged to you for this compli- 
 ment. I have just been saying, and as I have just said it, I will 
 repeat it: The hardest of all speeches which I have to answer is 
 a serenade. I never know what to say on such occasions. I sup- 
 pose that you have done me this kindness in connection with the 
 action of the Baltimore Convention which has recently taken 
 place, and with which, of course, I am very well satisfied. What 
 we want still more than Baltimore Conventions or Presidential 
 elections is success under General Grant. I propose that you con- 
 stantly bear in mind that the support you owe to the brave officers 
 and soldiers in the field is of the very first importance, and we 
 should therefore bend all our energies to that point. Now, with- 
 out detaining you any longer, I propose that you help me to 
 close up what I am now saying with three rousing cheers for 
 General Grant and the officers and soldiers under his command. 
 
 Croirn ye the brave! croicn ye the travel 
 
 As through your streets they rule, 
 And the sunbeams dance on the polished arms 
 
 Of the warriors, side by side; 
 Shower on them your sireetest flowers, 
 
 Let the -air ring with their praise. 
 
 Mrs. Hemans. 
 
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 JUNE 1O 
 
 The Lord render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness. 
 I. Samuel 26:23. 
 
 dntittly 
 
 (In response to a delegation of the National Union League, 
 in Bast Room of White House, June 9, 1864. 
 
 I am not insensible at all to the personal compliment there is in 
 this, yet I do not allow myself to believe that any but a small 
 portion of it is to be appropriated as a personal compliment to 
 me. The convention and the nation, I am assured, are alike ani- 
 mated by a higher view of the interests of the country, for the 
 present and the great future, and the part I am entitled to appro- 
 priate as a compliment is only that part which I may lay hold of 
 as being the opinion of the convention and the league, that I am 
 not entirely unworthy to be entrusted with the place I have occu- 
 pied for the last three years. I have not permitted myself, gentle- 
 men, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am 
 reminded in this connection of a story of an old Dutch farmer, 
 who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap 
 horses when crossing a stream. 
 
 Hi* words are bonds, his oaths are oracles ; 
 His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; 
 His tears, pure messengers sent from his heart ; 
 His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
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 JUNE 11 
 
 lie that stealcth a man, and sellcth him, or if he be found in his hand, 
 he shall surely be put to death. Exodus 21 : 16. 
 
 flfllotge t&an tfie 9po0t SDeprabeto 
 
 (In response to a gentleman from Massachusetts with a 
 petition to pardon one who had been convicted for being en- 
 gaged In the slave trade. He had been sentenced to five 
 years' imprisonment and fined $1.000. He had served his 
 time, but was. still held for the fine. He acknowledged his 
 guilt, and was very penitent.) 
 
 My friend, that is a very touching appeal to our feelings. Yon 
 know my weakness is to be, if possible, too easily moved by 
 appeals for mercy, and if this man were guilty of the foulest 
 murder that the arm of man could perpetrate I might forgive 
 him on such an appeal; but the man who could go to Africa, and 
 rob her of her children, and sell them into interminable bondage, 
 with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and 
 cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer, that he 
 can never receive pardon at my hands. No! he may rot in jail 
 before he shall have liberty by any act of mine! 
 
 What wish can prosper, or what prayer 
 For merchants rich in cargoes of despair, 
 Who drive a loathsome traffic, yauye and span. 
 And 'buy the muscles and the bones of a man? 
 The tender ties of father, husband, friend, 
 All bonds of nature in that moment end, 
 And each endures, while yet he draws his breath, 
 A stroke as fatal as the scythe of death. 
 
 Cowper. 
 
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 JUNE 12 
 
 When the scorner is punished, the simple Is made wise. Proverbs 21 : 11. 
 
 t&e Agitator and &abe t&t Bop. 
 
 (Extract from a lengthy letter, written June 12, 1863, in 
 roiply to New York Democrats, who, among other things, ask 
 for the release of Mr. Vallandigham, who has been arrested 
 for disloyalty.) 
 
 Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained 
 unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty of death. 
 The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction this 
 punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who de- 
 serts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who 
 induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when 
 effected by getting a father, or brother, or friend into a public 
 meeting, and there work upon his feelings until he is persuaded 
 to write the soldier boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a 
 wicked administration of a contemptible government, too weak 
 to punish him if he shall desert. I think that, in such a case, to 
 silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional, 
 but withal a great mercy. 
 
 That talking linare 
 
 Consumes Ms time in speeches to the rabble, 
 And sows sedition up and down the city, 
 Picking up discontented fools, belying 
 The senators and government: destroying 
 Faith among honest men, and praising knaves. 
 
 Otway. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JUNE 13 
 
 Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that 
 time, . . . and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. Judges 
 4:4, 5. 
 
 T&V jRo 9$ean0 dttlubiny jfnnaleg. 
 
 (Prom his letter in Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illi- 
 nois, Jnne 13, 1836, announcing himself a candidate for the 
 legislature.) 
 
 The candidates are called upon, I see, to show their hands. Here 
 is mine. I go for all sharing the privileges of government who 
 assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting 
 all the whites to the rights of suffrage, by no means excluding 
 females. . . . While acting as their representative, I shall be 
 governed by their will on all subjects upon which I have the 
 means of knowing what their will is; and upon all others, I shall 
 do what my judgment tells me will best advance their interests. 
 
 And well the poet, at her shrine, 
 
 Matt bend and worship while he woos; 
 To him she is a thing divine, 
 The inspiration of his line, 
 
 His lov'd one, and his muse. 
 If to his song the echo rings 
 
 Of fame 't is woman's voice he hears ; 
 If ever from his lyre's proud strings 
 Flow sounds like rush of angel wings, 
 'T is that she listens while he sings, 
 
 With blended smiles and tears. 
 
 HallecJc. 
 
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 JUNE 14 (Flajj Day) 
 
 In the name of our God we will set up our banners. Psalms 20 : 5. 
 
 Magnificent flag of t&e County. 
 
 (Extract from speech before the Legislature of Pennsyl- 
 vania, at Harrisburg, February 22, 1861, after he had spoken 
 at Independence Hall and raised the flag.) 
 
 Besides this, my friends there had provided a magnificent flag 
 of the country. They had arranged it so that I was given the 
 honor of raising it to the head of the staff. And when it went up 
 I was pleased that it went to its place by the strength of my own 
 feeble arm, when, according to the arrangement, the cord was 
 pulled, and it floated gloriously to the wind, without an accident, 
 in the light, glowing sunshine of the morning, I could not help 
 hoping that there was, in the entire success of that beautiful cere- 
 mony, at least something of an omen of what is to come. In the 
 whole of that proceeding I was a very humble instrument. I had 
 not provided the flag; I had not made the arrangement for elevat- 
 ing it to its place; I had applied but a very small portion of my 
 feeble strength in raising it. In the whole transaction I was in 
 the hands of the people who had arranged it, and if I can have the 
 same generous cooperation of the people of the nation, I think the 
 flag of our country may still keep flaunting gloriously. 
 
 Flarj of the free heart's hope and home, 
 
 By angel hands to valor given, 
 Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, 
 
 And all thy hues were born in heaven t 
 Forever float that standard sheet 
 
 Where breathes the foe but falls before us, 
 With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, 
 
 And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us! 
 
 Charles Rodman Drake. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JUNE 15 
 
 The mighty are gathered against me. . . . They run and prepare them- 
 selves without my fault. Psalms 59 : 3, 4. 
 
 |2o jfault of 
 
 (Extract from speech before Legislature of Pennsylvania, 
 February 22, 1861. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 It is not with any pleasure that I contemplate the possibility 
 that a necessity may arise in this country for the use of the mili- 
 tary arm. While I am exceedingly gratified to see the manifesta- 
 tions upon your streets of your military force here, and exceed- 
 ingly gratified at your promises here to use that force upon a 
 proper emergency while I make these acknowledgements, I desire 
 to repeat, in order to preclude any possible misconstruction, that 
 I do most sincerely hope that we shall have no use for them; that 
 it will never become their duty to shed blood, and most especially 
 never to shed fraternal blood. I promise that, so far as I may 
 have wisdom to direct, if so painful a result shall in any wise be 
 brought about, it shall be through no fault of mine. 
 
 O turn thy edged award another if ay : 
 
 Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help ! 
 
 One drop of blood drawn from thy country's bosom, 
 
 Khould grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore; 
 
 Return thee, therefore, with a flood of tears, 
 
 And wash away thy country's stained spots. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
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 JUNE 1C 
 
 If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. Mark 3 : 25. 
 
 2Dibi&e& 3ou0r Cannot 
 
 (Extract from speech delivered at Springfield, Illinois, 
 June 16, 1858, at the close of Republican Convention, at 
 which time he was nominated for the United States Senate.) 
 
 If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tend- 
 ing, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are 
 now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the 
 avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery 
 agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has 
 not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my 
 opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached 
 and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I 
 believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave 
 and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved I do 
 not expect the house to fall but I do expect it will cease to be 
 divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the 
 opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place 
 it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the 
 course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward 
 till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as 
 new, North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter 
 condition? Let any one who doubts, carefully contemplate that 
 now almost complete legal combination piece of machinery, so 
 to speak compounded of the Nebraska doctrine, and the Dred 
 Scott decision. 
 
 "United, ice stand; divided, ice fall!" 
 
 It made and preserves us a nation. 
 The union of lakes, the union of lands, 
 
 The union of States none can sever 
 The union of hearts, the union of hands, 
 
 And the flag of our Union forever. 
 
 George P. Morns. 
 
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 JUNE 17 
 
 Righteousness exalteth a nation : but sin Is a reproach to any people. 
 Proverbs 14 : 34. 
 
 Ration Cannot ilibf on 3Jnju0tice. 
 
 (Said in defense of his "Divided House" speech of June 
 16, 1858, some of his friends having severely criticised it.) 
 
 Friends, 1 have thought about this matter a great deal, have 
 weighed the question from all corners, and am thoroughly con- 
 vinced the time has come when it should be uttered; and if it 
 must be that I must go down because of this speech, then let me 
 go down linked to truth die in the advocacy of what is right 
 and just. This nation cannot live on injustice. "A house divided 
 against itself cannot stand," I say again and again. 
 
 (To some friends at Bloomington, 111.) 
 
 You may think the speech was a mistake; but I have never 
 believed it was, and you will see the day when you will consider 
 it the wisest thing I ever did. 
 
 He w os not of that strain of counsellors 
 That, like a turf of rushes in a brook, 
 Bends every way the current turns itself, 
 Yielding to every puff of appetite 
 That comes from majesty, but with true zeal 
 He faithfully declared all. 
 
 Brewer. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JUNE 18 
 
 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. Isaiah 
 3:25. 
 
 flfllar te 
 
 (Remarks at a Philadelphia Pair for the benefit of the 
 Sanitary Commission, June 16, 1864.) 
 
 War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magni- 
 tude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible. It has 
 deranged business, totally in many localities, and partially in all 
 localities. It has destroyed property and ruined homes; it has 
 produced a national debt and taxation unprecedented, at least in 
 this country; it has carried mourning to almost every home, until 
 it can, at most, be said, "The heavens are hung in black." 
 Yet the war continues, and several relieving coincidents have 
 accompanied it from the very beginning which have not been 
 known, as I understand or have any knowledge of, in any former 
 wars in the history of the world. The Sanitary Commission, with 
 all its benevolent labors; the Christian Commission, with all its 
 Christian and benevolent labors; and the various places, arrange- 
 ments, so to speak, and institutions, have contributed to the com- 
 fort and relief of the soldiers. 
 
 If you cannot in the conflict 
 
 Prove yourself a soldier true, 
 If where the fire and smoke are thickest 
 
 There 's no work for you to do, 
 When the battle-field is silent 
 
 You can go with careful tread, 
 You can bear away the wounded, 
 
 You can- cover up the dead. 
 
 Mrs. Ellen H. Gates. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JUNE 19 
 
 The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from 
 another. Genesis 31 : 49. 
 
 Kememftmto ftp t&r Eobefc at 
 
 (Remarks at a Philadelphia Fair for the benefit of the 
 Sanitary Commission, June 16, 1864. Continued from pre- 
 ceding page.) 
 
 The motive and object that lie at the bottom of all these are 
 most worthy; for, say what you will, after all, the most is due to 
 the soldier, who takes his life in his hands and goes to fight the 
 battles of his country. In what is contributed to his comfort when 
 he passes to and fro, and in what is contributed to him when he is 
 sick and wounded, in whatever shape it comes, whether from the 
 fair and tender hand of woman, or from any other source, it is 
 much, very much. But I think that there is still that which is of 
 much value to him in the continued reminders he sees in the 
 newspapers, that while he is absent he is yet remembered by the 
 loved ones at home. 
 
 The wife icho girds her Husband's sword, 
 
 'Mid little ones who weep or wonder, 
 And bravely speaks the cheering word, 
 
 What though her heart be rent asunder, 
 Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear 
 
 The bolts of death around him rattle, 
 Hath shed as sacred blood as e'er 
 
 Was poured upon the field of battle. 
 
 Thomas Buchanan Read. 
 
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 JUNE 20 
 
 lie maketh wars to cease. Psalms 46 : 9. 
 
 Ofllfjen id tf)i mat to n&? 
 
 (Remarks at a Philadelphia Fair for the benefit of the 
 Sanitary Commission, June 16, 1864. Concluded from pre- 
 ceding page.) 
 
 It is a pertinent question, often asked in the mind privately, 
 and from one to the other, When is the war to end? Surely I 
 feel as deep an interest in this question as any other can, but I 
 do not wish to name a day, a month, or a year when it is to end. 
 I do not wish to run any risk of seeing the time come, without 
 our being ready for the end, for fear of disappointment because 
 the time had come and not the end. We accepted this war for an 
 object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is 
 attained. Under God, I hope it never will end until that time. 
 
 Many are the hearts that are weary to-night, 
 
 Wishing for the icar to cease; 
 Many are the hearts looking -for the right, 
 
 To see the dawn of peace: 
 Tenting to-night, tenting to-night, 
 
 Tenting on the old camp-ground. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JUNE 21 
 
 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needath not 
 to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. II. Timothy 2 : 15. 
 
 3 mill be l&ea&p for 
 
 (Said to a Mr. Emerson during the celebrated trial of the 
 McCormick Patent Case at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. Mr. 
 Lincoln and E. M. Stanton here met for the first time, each 
 being engaged for the defense.) 
 
 I am going home to study law. I occupy a good position there, 
 and I think that I can get along with the way things are done 
 there now. But these college-trained men, who have devoted their 
 whole lives to study, are coming West, don't you see? And they 
 study their cases as we never do. They have got as far as Cincin- 
 nati now. They will soon be in Illinois. I am going home to 
 study law! I am as good as any of them, and when they get out 
 to Illinois I will be ready for them. 
 
 Westward the course of empire takes its way, 
 The first four acts already past, 
 A fifth shall close the drama with the day; 
 Time's noblest offspring is the last. 
 
 Bishop Berkeley. 
 
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 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. Proverbs 17 : 22. 
 
 Petrolr um $. 
 
 (To a company of distinguished persons who called at the 
 White House in 1864.) 
 
 Have you seen the "Nasby Papers"? There is a chap out in 
 Ohio who has been writing a series of letters in the newspapers 
 over the signature of Petroleum V. Nasby. Some one sent me a 
 pamphlet collection of them the other day. I am going to write 
 to "Petroleum" to come down here, and I intend to tell him if he 
 will communicate his talent to me, I will "swap" places with him. 
 
 The merry heart, the merry heart, 
 Of Heaven's gifts I hold thee best; 
 And they irho feel its pleasant throb, 
 
 TJiough dark their lot, are truly blest. 
 From youth to age it changes not, 
 
 In joy and sorrow still the same; 
 When skies are dark, and tempests scowl, 
 
 It shines a steady beacon flame. 
 
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 JUNE 23 
 
 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. Hebrews 13 : 9. 
 
 Squatter &obmigntp, 
 
 (From a speech delivered at Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 
 1858. In reply to Senator Stephen A. Douglas.) 
 
 Popular sovereignty! everlasting popular sovereignty! Let us 
 for a moment inquire into this vast matter of popular sovereignty. 
 What is popular sovereignty? We recollect at an early period in 
 the history of this struggle, there was another name for the same 
 thing squatter sovereignty. It was not exactly popular sover- 
 eignty, but squatter sovereignty. What do those terms mean? 
 What do those terms mean when used now? A vast credit is 
 taken by our friend, the Judge, in regard to his support of it, 
 when he declares the last years of his life have been, and all the 
 future years of his life shall be devoted to this matter of popular 
 sovereignty. What is it? Why, it is sovereignty of the people! 
 What was squatter sovereignty! I suppose if it had any signifi- 
 cance at all it was the right of the people to govern themselves, 
 to be sovereign in their own affairs while they were squatted 
 down in a country not their own, while they had squatted on a 
 territory that did not belong to them, in the sense that a State 
 belongs to the people who inhabit it when it belonged to the 
 nation such right to govern themselves was called "squatter 
 sovereignty." 
 
 This sov'reign passion, scornful of restraint, 
 Even from the birth affects supreme command, 
 Swells in the breast with resistless force, 
 O'erbears each gentler motion of the mind. 
 
 Dr. Johnson. 
 
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 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and 
 according to the Judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do. 
 Deuteronomy 17 : 11. 
 
 Judicial 
 
 (From a speech delivered at Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 
 1857.) 
 
 Judicial decisions have two uses first to absolutely determine 
 the case decided; and, secondly, to indicate to the public how 
 similar cases will be decided when they arise. For the latter use, 
 they are called "precedents" and "authorities." . . . We think the 
 Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made 
 it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we 
 
 can to have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it 
 
 Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents, 
 according to circumstances. That this should be so, accords both 
 with common sense and the customary understanding of the 
 legal profession. 
 
 Let none direct thee ichat to do or say, 
 
 Till thee thy judgment of the matter sic ay ; 
 
 Let not the pleasing many thee delight, 
 
 First judge if those whom thou dost please, judge right. 
 
 Denham. 
 
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 JUNE 25 
 
 Remember them that are in bonds. Hebrews 13 : 3. 
 
 Eccfc of a ^unbred 
 
 (From a speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 In those days our Declaration of Independence was held sacred 
 by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the 
 bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered 
 at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till if its framers could rise 
 from their graves, they could not at all recognize it. All the 
 powers of earth seem rapidly combining against him. Mammon 
 is after him; ambition follows, philosophy follows, and the the- 
 ology of the day is fast joining the cry. They have him in his 
 prison house; they have searched his person and left no prying 
 instrument with him. One after another they have closed the 
 heavy iron doors upon him; and now they have him, as it were, 
 bolted in with a lock of a hundred keys, which can never be un- 
 locked without the concurrence of every key; the keys in the 
 hands of a hundred different men, and they scattered to a hundred 
 different and distant places; and they stand musing as to what 
 invention, in all the dominions of mind and matter, can be pro- 
 duced to make the impossibility of his escape more complete than 
 it is. 
 
 O Liberty! can man resign fhee, 
 Once having felt thy generous flame? 
 
 Can dungeons, bolts, or bars confine thee, 
 Or whip thy noble spirit tame? 
 
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 JUNE 26 
 
 To every man according to his several ability. Matthew 25 : 15. 
 
 equal in all I\c0prctd. 
 
 (From a speech delivered at Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 
 1857. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 I think the authors of that notable instrument intended to in- 
 clude oH men, hut they did not intend to declare all men equal in 
 all respects. They did not mean to say all were equal in color, 
 size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity. They de- 
 fined with tolerable distinctness in what respects they did con- 
 sider all men created equal equal with "certain inalienable 
 rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi- 
 ness." This they said and this they meant. They did not mean 
 to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying 
 that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it imme- 
 diately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a 
 boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforce- 
 ment of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. 
 
 Examples I could cite you more ; 
 But 'be content with these four; 
 For when one's proofs are aptly chosen, 
 Four are as valid as four dozen. 
 
 Prior. 
 
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 JUNE 27 
 
 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom. Proverbs 12 : 8. 
 
 (From his letter of June 27, 1864, addressed to Honorable 
 William Dennison, Chairman of Baltimore Convention, ac- 
 cepting the second nomination for the Presidency.) 
 
 Your letter of the 14th instant, formally notifying me that I 
 have been nominated by the convention you represent for the 
 Presidency of the United States, for four years from the 4th of 
 March next, has been received. The nomination is gratefully 
 accepted, as the resolutions of the convention called the plat- 
 form are heartily approved. ... I am especially gratified that 
 the soldier and the seaman were not forgotten by the convention, 
 as they forever must and will be remembered by the grateful 
 country for whose salvation they devote their lives. 
 
 The brave do never shun the light; 
 Just are their thoughts, and open are their tempers; 
 Truly icithout disguise they love or hate; 
 Still are they found in the fair face of day, 
 \nd heaven and men are judges of their actions. 
 
 Rowe. 
 
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 JUNE 28 
 
 God . . . hath made of one blood all nations of men. Acts 17 : 26. 
 
 to fee a kittle Colot*BHn&. 
 
 (In response to General Grant's sugsc^stion. while at City 
 Point, Virginia, in June, 1864, that the President should 
 visit the colored troops who had so recently performed acts 
 of bravery in front of Petersburg.) 
 
 Oh, yes, I want to take a look at those boys. I read with the 
 greatest, delight the accounts given in Mr. Dana's dispatch to the 
 Secretary of War how gallantly they behaved. He said they took 
 six out of the sixteen guns captured that day. I was opposed on 
 nearly every side when I first favored the raising of colored regi- 
 ments; but they have proved their efficiency, and I am glad they 
 have kept pace vith the white troops in the recent assaults. When 
 we wanted every able-bodied man who could be spared to go to 
 the front, and my opposers kept objecting to the negroes, I used 
 to tell them that at such times it was just as well to be a little 
 color-blind. 
 
 We used to think the negro didn't count for very much 
 Light-flngered in the melon patch and chicken yard, and such; 
 Much mixed in point of morals and absurd in point of dress, 
 The butt of droll cartoonists and the target of the press; 
 But we 've got to reconstruct our views on color, more or less. 
 
 B. M. Channing. 
 
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 JUNE 29 
 
 And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy. Acts 
 23 : 13. 
 
 (Extract from a lengthy letter written June 13, 1863, to 
 Honorable Erastus Corning and others, who had written him 
 a letter, enclosing resolutions passed at Albany, New York, 
 criticising the President and his administration in many 
 things, and requesting the discharge of Mr. Vallandigham, 
 who had been arrested for disloyalty.) 
 
 One of the resolutions expresses the opinion of the meeting that 
 arbitrary arrests will have the effect to divide and distract those 
 who should be united in suppressing the rebellion, and I am spe- 
 cifically called on to discharge Mr. Vallandigham. I regard this 
 as, at least, a fair appeal to me on the expediency of exercising a 
 constitutional power which I think exists. In response to such 
 appeal, I have to say, it gave me pain when I learned that Mr. 
 Vallandigham had been arrested that is, I was pained that there 
 should have seemed to be a necessity for arresting him and that 
 it will afford me great pleasure to discharge him as soon as I can, 
 by any means, believe the public safety will not suffer by it. I 
 further say that, as the war progresses, it appears to me opin- 
 ion and action which were in great confusion at first take shape 
 and fall into more regular channels, so that the necessity for 
 strong dealing with them gradually decreases. I have every 
 reason to desire that it should cease altogether. 
 
 The man who rises on his country's ruin, 
 Lives in a crowd of foes, himself the chief; 
 In vain his power, in vain his pomp and pleasure, 
 His guilty thoughts, those tyrants of the soul, 
 Steal in unseen, and stab him in his triumph. 
 
 Martyn. 
 
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 JUNE 30 
 
 By wise counsel thou shalt make thy war : and in multitude of coun- 
 sellors there is safety. Proverbs 24 : 6. 
 
 of 
 
 (In reply to Mr. Dixon, a Congressman from Rhode Island, 
 who was appointed to represent the views of a meeting of 
 Governors of Northern States, June 28, 1862, urging for a 
 more aggressive campaign.) 
 
 Dixon, you are a good fellow, and I have always had a good 
 opinion of you. It is needless for me to say that what comes from 
 those who sent you here is authoritative. The Governors of the 
 Northern States are the North. What they decide must be carried 
 out. Still, in justice to myself, you must remember that Abraham 
 Lincoln is President of the United States. Anything that the 
 President of the United States does, right or wrong, will be the 
 act of Abraham Lincoln, and Abraham Lincoln will, by the people, 
 be held responsible for the President's action. But I have a prop- 
 osition to make to you. Go home and think the matter over. 
 Come to me to-morrow morning at nine o'clock, and I will promise 
 to do anything that you by then have determined upon as the 
 right and proper thing to do. Good-night. 
 
 All "hail, great chieftain! Long will sweetly cluster 
 A thousand memories round your sacred name. 
 
 Nor time nor death shall dim the spotless luster 
 That shines upon your fame. 
 
 Eugene J. Hall. 
 
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 JULY 1 
 
 And Asa had an army of men . . . three hundred thousand ... all 
 these were mighty men of valour. II. Chronicles 14 : 8. 
 
 Call for f&bttt ^undreti {Efiouganto Open. 
 
 (In reply, July 1, 1862, to an address by the Governors of 
 seventeen States, expressing their belief in the readiness of 
 the people to respond to more vigorous measures to end the 
 Rebellion.) 
 
 Fully concurring in the wisdom of the views expressed to me 
 in so patriotic a manner by you in the communication of the 
 28th day of June, I have decided to call into the service an addi- 
 tional force of three hundred thousand men. I suggest and rec- 
 ommend that the troops should he chiefly of infantry. ... I 
 trust that they may be enrolled without delay, so as to bring this 
 unnecessary and injurious civil war to a speedy and satisfactory 
 conclusion. An order fixing the quotas of the respective States 
 will be issued by the War Department to-morrow. 
 
 Heaven, he cried, my bleeding country save! 
 Is there no hand on high to shield the brave f 
 Yet, though destruction sweep those lovely plain? 
 Rise, fellow-men! our country yet remains! 
 By that dread name we wave the sword on high, 
 And swear for her to live! ivith her to die! 
 
 Campbell. 
 
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 JULY 2 
 
 As thy days, so shall thy strength be. Deuteronomy 33 : 25. 
 
 Me fetill l^abe &trengt&. 
 
 (In reply, July 1, 1862, to General McClellan, who called 
 for reinforcements.) 
 
 It is impossible to reenforce you for your present emergency. 
 If we had a million of men, we could not get them to you in time. 
 We have not the men to send. If you are not strong enough to 
 face the enemy, you must find a place of security, and wait, rest, 
 and repair. Maintain your ground if you can, but save the army 
 at all events, even if you fall back to Fort Monroe. We still have 
 strength enough in the country, and will bring it out. 
 
 Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands 
 
 And of armed men the hum 
 Lo ! a nation's hosts have gathered 
 'Round the quick-alarming drum, 
 Saying, "Come, 
 Freemen, come, 
 
 Ere your heritage be wasted!" 
 Saith the sound-alarming drum. 
 
 F. B. Harte. 
 
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 JULY 3 
 
 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Epheslans 5 : 16. 
 
 te 
 
 (To Governor Morton, Indiana, July 3, 1862.) 
 
 I would not want the half of 300,000 new troops if I could have 
 them now. If I had 50,000 additional troops here now I believe 
 I could substantially close the war in two weeks; but time is 
 everything, and if I get the 50,000 new men in a month I shall 
 have lost 20,000 old ones during the same month, having gained 
 only 30,000, with the difference between the old and new troops 
 still against me. The quicker you can raise the troops, the fewer 
 you will have to send, and time is everything. Please act in view 
 of this. 
 
 They left their ploughshares in the mold, 
 
 The flocks and herds without a fold; 
 
 The sickle in the unshorn grain, 
 
 The corn half garnered on the plain, 
 
 And, mustered in their simple dress, 
 
 For wrongs to seek a stern redress; 
 
 To right those wrongs, come weal, come woe, 
 
 To perish or o'ercome the foe. 
 
 McLellan. 
 
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 JULY 4 (Independence Day) 
 
 Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. 
 Leviticus 25 : 10. 
 
 2Drr laration of 3ntif pcndntre. 
 
 (Extract from address at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 
 February 22, 1861.) 
 
 I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from 
 the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. I 
 have often pondered over the dangers which were incurred by the 
 men who assembled here and adopted the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence. I have pondered over the toils that were endured by 
 the officers and soldiers of the army who achieved that inde- 
 pendence. I have often inquired of myself what great principle 
 or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It 
 was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from 
 the mother land, but something in that declaration giving liberty, 
 not alone to the people of this country, but hope for the world for 
 all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time 
 the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and 
 that all should have an equal chance. 
 
 Our fathers now their freedom strive to gain; 
 Their independence boldly now proclaim. 
 They pledge their fortunes, sacred honor, life, 
 And periled all amid the deadly strife. 
 
 John W. Barber. 
 
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 JULY 5 
 
 When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy 
 door, pray to thy Father which is in secret ; and thy Father which seeth in 
 secret shall reward thee openly. Matthew 6 : 6. 
 
 for Pictorp at 
 
 (Said to General Sickles, July 5, 1863, who was wounded 
 at Gettysburg. Mr. Lincoln visited him. Gettysburg battle, 
 July 1, 2, and 3, 1863.) 
 
 I will tell you how it was. In the pinch of your campaign 
 up there, when everybody seemed panic-stricken, and nobody 
 could tell what was going to happen, I went into my room one 
 day and locked the door, and got down on my knees before Al- 
 mighty God and prayed to him mightily for victory at Gettys- 
 burg. I told him that this was his war, and our cause his cause, 
 but that we could not stand another Fredericksburg, or Chancel- 
 lorsville; and then and there made a solemn vow to Almighty 
 God that if he would stand by our boys at Gettysburg I would 
 stand by him. And he did, and I will. And after that (I don't 
 know how it was and I can't explain it) soon a sweet comfort 
 crept into my soul that things would go all right at Gettysburg. 
 
 Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer I 
 That calls me from a world of care 
 And bids me at my Father's throne 
 Make all my wants and wishes known. 
 
 Walford. 
 
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 JULY 6 
 
 The leaders of this people cause them to err. Isaiah 9 : 16. 
 
 in 15tm$ Slptelfti. 
 
 (Said to a correspondent of the Boston Journal in July, 1864.) 
 
 I have faith, in the people. They will not consent to disunion. 
 The danger is in their being misled. Let them know the truth, 
 and the country is safe. ... I can't work less, but it isn't that 
 work never troubles me. Things look badly, and I can't avoid 
 anxiety. Personally, I care nothing about a reelection; but if 
 our divisions defeat us, I fear for the country. 
 
 You fell ! A nation's hopes seemed blighted, 
 While millions shuddered at your dreadful fall; 
 
 But Ood is good! His wondrous hand has righted 
 And reunited all. 
 
 Tou fell I tut in your death you were victorious ; 
 
 To molder in the tomb your form has gone, 
 While through the world your great soul grows more glorious 
 
 As years go gliding on. 
 
 Eugene J. Hall. 
 
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 JULY 7 
 
 They received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the 
 scriptures dally. Acts 17 : 11. 
 
 C5t*at Book of C5od. 
 
 (From a speech to a committee of colored people who pre- 
 sented him with an elegant copy of the Bible from the col- 
 ored people of Baltimore, July 4, 1864.) 
 
 I can only say now, as I have often said before, it has always 
 been a sentiment with me that all mankind should be free. So 
 far as I have been able, so far as came within my sphere, I have 
 always acted as I believed was right and just, and done all I 
 could for the good of mankind. I have, in letters and documents 
 sent forth from this office, expressed myself better than I can 
 now. In regard to the great Book, I have only to say it is the best 
 gift which God has ever given man. All the good from the Savior 
 of the world is communicated to us through this Book. But for 
 that Book we could not know right from wrong. All those things 
 desirable to man are contained in it. I return you my sincere 
 thanks for this very elegant copy of the great Book of God which 
 you present. 
 
 Holy Bible, book divine, 
 
 Precious treasure, thou art mine; 
 Mine to tell me whence I came; 
 
 Mine to teach me what I am. 
 
 John Burton. 
 
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 JULY 8 
 
 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and 
 of a good conscience. I. Timothy 1 : 5. 
 
 Prejudice &gafn0t t&e &outfitrn 
 
 (Extract from a speech at Peoria, Illinois, 1854.) 
 
 Before proceeding, let me say, I think I have no prejudice 
 against the Southern people. They are just what we would be in 
 their situation. If slavery did not now exist among them, they 
 would not introduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should 
 not instantly give it up. This I believe of the masses North and 
 South. Doubtless there are individuals on both sides who would 
 not hold slaves under any circumstances; and others who would 
 gladly introduce slavery anew, if it were out of existence. We 
 know that some Southern men do free their slaves, go North, and 
 become tip-top Abolitionists; while some Northern ones go South, 
 and become most cruel slave-masters. When Southern people tell 
 us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than 
 we, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution 
 exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it, in any satis- 
 factory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I 
 surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know 
 how to do myself. 
 
 In Mississippi's Hall of Fame 
 
 Together they look down 
 The statesman of immortal mold, 
 
 The soldier of renown. 
 The South delights to honor him 
 
 Who set the bondman free, 
 And Lincoln's pictured face to-day 
 
 Hangs side by side with Lee. 
 
 Minna Irving. 
 
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 JULY 9 
 
 Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord. Exodus 14 : 13. 
 
 (Btadual emancipation. 
 
 (Extract from speech at Peoria, Illinois, in 1854. Con- 
 tinued from preceding page.) 
 
 If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to 
 do, as to the existing institution. My first impulse would be to 
 free all the slaves, send them to Liberia to their own native 
 land. But a moment's reflection would convince me that what- 
 ever of high hope (as I think there is) there may be in this, in 
 the long run, its sudden execution is impossible. If they were all 
 landed there in a day, they would all perish in the next ten days; 
 and there are not shipping and surplus money enough in the 
 world to carry them there in many times ten days. What then? 
 Free them all and keep them among us as underlings? Is it quite 
 certain that this betters their condition? I think I would not 
 hold one in slavery at any rate; yet the point is not clear enough 
 to me to denounce people upon. What next? Free them, and 
 make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings 
 will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that 
 those of the great mass of white people will not. ... A universal 
 feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. 
 We cannot, then, make them equals. It does seem to me that 
 systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted; but for their 
 tardiness in this, I will not undertake to judge our brethren of 
 the South. 
 
 The broken heart which kindness never heals, 
 The home-sick passion which the negro feels 
 When, toiling, fainting in the land of canes, 
 His spirit wanders to his native plains. 
 
 Montgomery. 
 
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 JULY 10 
 
 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration. Job 13 : 17. 
 
 a ^retofction jDnty. 
 
 (Extract from speech at Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1858, 
 in reply to- Judge Douglas, and in defense of his "Divided- 
 House" speech. See June 16.) 
 
 He says that I am in favor of making war by the North upon 
 the South for the extinction of slavery; that I am also in favor of 
 inviting (as he expresses it) the South to a war upon the North, 
 for the purpose of nationalizing slavery. Now, it is singular 
 enough, if you will carefully read that passage over, that I did 
 not say that I was in favor of anything in it. I only said what I 
 expected would take place. I made a prediction only it may 
 have been a foolish one perhaps. I did not even say that I desired 
 that slavery would be put in course of ultimate extinction. I do 
 so now, however, so there need be no longer any difficulty about 
 that. . . . Gentlemen, Judge Douglas informed you that this 
 speech of mine was probably carefully prepared. I admit that it 
 was. I am not a master of language; I have not a fine education; 
 I am not capable of entering into a disquisition upon dialectics, 
 as I believe you call it; but I do not believe the language I em- 
 ployed bears any such construction as Judge Douglas puts upon 
 it. But I don't care about a quibble in regard to words. I know 
 what I meant, and I will not leave this crowd in doubt, if I can 
 explain to them what I really meant in the use of that para- 
 graph. 
 
 You have a natural wise sincerity, 
 
 A simple truthfulness; 
 
 And, though yourself not unacquamt with care, 
 
 Have in your heart wide room. 
 
 Lowell. 
 
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 JULY 11 
 
 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the 
 arm that hath no strength ? Job 26 : 2. 
 
 of 
 
 (Address to the Senators and Representatives of the Border 
 States, July 12, 1862.) 
 
 I intend no reproach or complaint when I assure you that, in 
 my opinion, if you all had voted for the resolution in the gradual 
 emancipation message of last March, the war would now be sub- 
 stantially ended. And the plan therein proposed is yet one of the 
 most potent and swift means of ending it. Let the States which 
 are in rebellion see definitely and clearly that in no event will the 
 States you represent ever join their proposed confederacy, and 
 they cannot much longer maintain the contest. But you cannot 
 divest them of their hope to ultimately have you with them, as 
 long as you show a determination to perpetuate the institution 
 within your States ; beat them at election as you have overwhelm- 
 ingly done, and, nothing daunted, they still claim you as their 
 own. You and I know what the lever of their power is. Break 
 that lever before their faces, and they can shake you no more 
 forever. 
 
 / "break your bonds and masterships, 
 
 And I unchain the slave; 
 Free be his heart and hand henceforth, 
 
 As wind and wandering wave. 
 
 To-day unbind the captive, 
 
 80 only are ye unbound; 
 Lift up a people from the dust, 
 
 Trump of the rescue sound. 
 
 Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
 
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 JULY 12 
 
 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I 
 will not rest. Isaiah 62 : 1. 
 
 for t&* feafee of t&e M&ole Country 
 
 (Extract from address to Senators and Representatives of 
 the Border States July 12, 1862. Continued from preceding 
 page.) 
 
 Most of you have treated me with kindness and consideration, 
 and I trust you will not now think I improperly touch what is 
 exclusively your own, when for the sake of the whole country I 
 ask, Can you, for your States, do better than to take the course I 
 urge? Discarding punctilio and maxims adapted to more man- 
 ageable times, and looking only to the unprecedentedly stern 
 facts of our case, can you do better in any possible event? You 
 prefer that the constitutional relation of the States to the Nation 
 shall be practically restored without disturbance of the institu- 
 tion; and if this were done, my whole duty, in this respect, under 
 the constitution and my oath of office, would be performed. But 
 it is not done, and we are trying to accomplish it by war. 
 
 Come East, and West, and North, 
 
 By races, as snowftakes, 
 And carry my purpose forth 
 
 Which neither halts nor shakes. 
 
 My way fulfilled shall "be, 
 
 For, in daylight or in dark, 
 My thunderbolt has eyes to see 
 
 His way home to the mark. 
 
 Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
 
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 JULY 13 
 
 Every purpose is established by counsel : and with good advice make 
 war. Proverbs 20 : 18. 
 
 of tfie OZHar. 
 
 (Extract from address to Senators and Representatives of 
 the Border States, July 12, 1862. Continued from preceding 
 page.) 
 
 The incidents of the war cannot be avoided. If the war con- 
 tinues long, as it must if the object be not sooner attained, the 
 institution in your States will be extinguished by mere friction 
 and abrasion by the mere incidents of the war. It will be gone, 
 and you will have nothing valuable in lieu of it. Much of its value 
 is gone already. How much better for you and your people to take 
 the step which at once shortens the war and secures substantial 
 compensation for that which is sure to be wholly lost in any other 
 event. How much better to thus save the money which else we 
 sink forever in the war. How much better to do it while we can, 
 lest the war ere long render us pecuniarily unable to do it. How 
 much better for you, as seller, and the Nation, as buyer, to sell 
 out and buy out that without which the war never could have 
 been, than to sink both the thing to be sold and the price of it in 
 cutting one another's throats. I do not speak of emancipation 
 at once, but of a decision at once to emacipate gradually. 
 
 'T is not victory to win the field, 
 Unless we make our enemies to yield 
 More to our justice than our force; and so 
 As well instruct as overcome our foe. 
 
 Oomersall.
 
 THE LINCOLN TEAR BOOK 
 
 JULY 14 
 
 And now, I pray you, consider from this day. Haggai 2 : 15. 
 
 Belobeti ^tetotp anto 
 
 (Extract from address to Senators and Representatives of 
 the Border States, July 12, 1862. Concluded from preceding 
 page.) 
 
 Before leaving the capital, consider and discuss it among your- 
 selves. You are patriots and statesmen, and as such I pray you 
 consider this proposition, and at least commend it to the consid- 
 eration of your States and people. As you would perpetuate popu- 
 lar government, for the best people in the world, I beseech you 
 that you do in no wise omit this. Our common country is in great 
 peril, demanding the loftiest views and boldest action to bring a 
 speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to 
 the world; its beloved history and cherished memories are vindi- 
 cated, and its happy future fully assured and rendered incon- 
 ceivably grand. To you, more than to any others, the privilege is 
 given to assure that happiness, and to thus link your own names 
 therewith forever. 
 
 Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, 
 
 In action faithful, and in honor clear ; 
 
 Who broke no promise, served no private end, 
 
 Who gained no title, and who lost no friend; 
 
 Ennobled by himself, by all approved, 
 
 And praised, unenvied, by the muse he loved. 
 
 Pope. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JULY 15 
 
 The Lord will give strength unto his people ; the Lord will bless his 
 people with peace. Psalms 29 : 11. 
 
 flflmon and jFratetnal 
 
 (Extract from Thanksgiving Proclamation issued July 15, 1863.) 
 
 Be it known, that I do set apart Thursday, the sixth day of 
 August next, to be observed as a day for national thanksgiving, 
 praise, and prayer; and I invite the people of the United States 
 to assemble on that occasion in their customary places of worship, 
 and in the form approved by their own conscience render the 
 homage due to the Divine Majesty for the wonderful things he has 
 done in the Nation's behalf, and invoke the influence of the Holy 
 Spirit to subdue the anger which has produced and so long sus- 
 tained a needless and cruel rebellion, to change the hearts of the 
 insurgents, to guide the councils of the Government with wisdom 
 adequate to so great a national emergency, and to visit with 
 tender care and consolation, throughout the length and breadth of 
 our land, all those who, through the vicissitudes of marches, voy- 
 ages, battles, and sieges have been brought to suffer in mind, 
 body, or estate, and finally to lead the whole Nation through 
 paths of repentance and submission to the Divine will, back to 
 the perfect enjoyment of union and fraternal peace. 
 
 God 'bless our native land! 
 Firm may she ever stand 
 
 Through storm and night; 
 While the wild tempests rave, 
 Ruler of wind and wave, 
 Do thou our country save 
 
 By thy great might. 
 
 Dwight. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JULY 16 
 
 The glorious liberty of the children of God. Romans 8 : 21. 
 
 (Bloriougf Consummation. 
 
 (Extract from an address delivered at Springfield, Illinois, 
 July 16, 1852.) 
 
 The suggestion of the possible ultimate redemption of the Afri- 
 can race and African continent was made twenty-five years ago. 
 Every succeeding year has added strength to the hope of its 
 realization. May it indeed be realized. Pharaoh's country was 
 cursed with plagues, and his hosts drowned in the Red Sea for 
 striving to retain a captive people who had already served them 
 more than four hundred years. May like disaster never befall us! 
 If, as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming 
 generations of our countrymen shall, by any means, suceed in 
 freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery, and at 
 the same time restoring a captive people to their long-lost father- 
 land, with bright prospects for the future, and this, too, so grad- 
 ually that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the 
 change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation. 
 
 In the long vista of the years to roll, 
 
 Let me not see my country's honor fade; 
 
 Oh ! let me see our land retain its soul ! 
 
 Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade. 
 
 Keats. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JULY 17 
 
 With him is an arm of flesh ; but with us is the Lord our God to help 
 us, and to fight our battles. II. Chronicles 32 : 8. 
 
 Battle flflpon ^principle. 
 
 (From a speech delivered at Springfield, Illinois, July 17, 
 1858. Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Douglas were candidates for the 
 United States Senate.) 
 
 There is still another disadvantage under which we labor, and 
 to which I will ask your attention. It arises out of the relative 
 positions of two persons who stand before the State as can- 
 didates for the Senate. Senator Douglas is of world-wide renown. 
 All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his 
 party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at 
 no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They 
 have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post-offices, land- 
 offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and 
 foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuber- 
 ance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. And as they 
 have been gazing upon this attractive picture so long, they can- 
 not, in the little distraction that has taken place in the party, 
 bring themselves to give up the charming hope ; but with greedier 
 anxiety they rush about him, sustain him, and give him marches, 
 triumphal entries, and receptions beyond what even in the days 
 of his highest prosperity they could have brought about in his 
 favor. On the contrary, nobody has ever expected me to be Pres- 
 ident. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen that 
 any cabbages were sprouting out. These are disadvantages, all 
 taken together, that the Republicans labor under. We have to 
 fight this battle upon principle, and upon principle alone. 
 
 A happy lot be thine, and larger light 
 
 Await thee there; for thou hast bound thy will 
 
 In cheerful homage to the rule of right 
 And lovest all, and doest good for ill. 
 
 Bryant. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JULY 18 
 
 To the counsellors of peace is joy. Proverbs 12 : 20. 
 
 Conduct Botfj 
 
 (Safe conduct promised for rebel emissaries to visit 
 Washington. Issued July 18, 1864.) 
 
 Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the 
 integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, 
 and which comes by and with an authority that can control the 
 armies now at war with the United States will be received and 
 considered by the Executive Government of the United States, 
 and will be met by liberal terms on substantial and collateral 
 points; and the bearer thereof shall have safe conduct both ways. 
 
 O Peace! the fairest child of heaven, 
 
 To whom the sylvian reign was given; 
 
 The vale, the fountain, and the grove, 
 
 With every softer scene of love: 
 
 Return, sweet peace 1 and cheer the weeping swain, 
 
 Return with ease and pleasure in thy train. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JULY 19 
 
 The powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth 
 the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. Romans 13 : 1, 2. 
 
 affair at ft. feumter. 
 
 (Extract from first message to Congress, July 4, 1861.) 
 
 By the affair at Fort Sumter, with its surrounding circum- 
 stances, that point was reached. Then and thereby the assailants 
 of the Government began the conflict of arms without a gun in 
 sight, or in expectancy, to return their fire, save only a few in the 
 fort sent to that harbor years before for their own protection, 
 and still ready to give that protection in whatever was lawful. 
 In this act, discarding all else, they have forced upon the country 
 the distinct issue, immediate dissolution or blood, and this issue 
 embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents 
 to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional 
 republic or democrarcy, a government of the people, by the same 
 people, can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its 
 own domestic foes. It presents the question whether discontented 
 individuals, too few in numbers to control the Administration 
 according to the organic law in any case, can always, upon the 
 pretense made in this case, or any other pretenses, or arbitrarily 
 without any pretense, break up their government, and thus prac- 
 tically put an end to free government upon the earth. 
 
 Strike till the last armed foe expires; 
 Strike for your altars and your flres; 
 Strike for the green graves of your sires, 
 God, and your native land. 
 
 Halleck. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JULY 20 
 
 A spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength 
 to them that turn the battle to the gate. Isaiah 28 : 6. 
 
 ial tot t&e Idlotk is ja&unfcant, 
 
 (From the first message to Congress, July 4, 1861. Con- 
 tinued from preceding page.) 
 
 It is now recommended that you give the legal means for mak- 
 ing this contest a short and decisive one; that you place at the 
 control of the Government for the work at least 400,000 men and 
 $400,000,000; that number of men is about one-tenth of those of 
 proper ages within the regions where apparently all are willing 
 to engage, and the sum is less than a twenty-third part of the 
 money value owned by the men who seem ready to devote the 
 whole. A debt of $600,000,000 now is a less sum per head than 
 was the debt of our Revolution when we came out of that strug- 
 gle, and the money value in the country bears even a greater pro- 
 portion to what it was then than does the population. Surely 
 each man has as strong a motive now to preserve our liberties as 
 each had to establish them. A rigid result at this time will be 
 worth more to the world than ten times the men and ten times 
 the money. The evidence reaching us from the country leaves no 
 doubt that the material for the work is abundant, and that it 
 needs only the hand of legislation to give it legal sanction, and 
 the hand of the Executive to give it practical shape and efficiency. 
 
 We 're coming, Father Abraham, 
 
 Strong hearts and ready hands; 
 From river, lake, and mountain 
 
 We are mustering our bands, 
 From boundless western prairie to 
 
 The old Atlantic shore. 
 We 're coming, Father Abraham, 
 
 8ia> hundred thousand more. 
 
 Gibbons. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JULY 21 
 
 I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right ; and I hate 
 every false way. Psalms 119 : 128. 
 
 Snuenioug 
 
 (Extract from first message to Congress, July 4, 1861. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 It might seem at first thought to be of little difference whether 
 the present movement at the South be called secession or rebel- 
 lion. The movers, however, well understood the difference. At 
 the beginning they knew that they could never raise their treason 
 to any respectable magnitude by any name which implies viola- 
 tion of law; they knew their people possessed as much of moral 
 sense, as much of devotion to law and order, and as much pride in 
 its reverence for the history and government of their common 
 country, as any other civilized and patriotic people. They knew 
 they could make no advancement directly in the teeth of these 
 strong and noble sentiments. Accordingly they commenced by an 
 insidious debauching of the public mind; they invented an in- 
 genious sophism, which, if conceded, was followed by perfectly 
 logical steps through all the incidents of the complete destruc- 
 tion of the Union. The sophism itself is, That any State of the 
 Union may, consistently with the Nation's Constitution, and 
 therefore lawfully and peacefully, withdraw from the Union with- 
 out the consent of the Union or of any other State. 
 
 In knots they stand, or in rank they walk, 
 Serious in aspect, earnest in their talk: 
 Factious, and favoring this or t' other side, 
 As their strong fancy or weak reason guide. 
 
 Dryden. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JULY 22 
 
 The whole body fitly joined together and compacted. Ephesians 4 : 16. 
 
 Union jDIton: tDan tfje fetatr. 
 
 (Extract from first message to Congress, July 4, 1861. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 What is sovereignty in the political sense of the word? Would 
 it be far from wrong to define it a political community without 
 a political superior? Tested by this, no one of our States, except 
 Texas, ever was a sovereignty. And even Texas gave up the char- 
 acter on coming into the Union; by which act she acknowledged 
 the Constitution of the United States, and the laws and treaties 
 of the United States, made in pursuance of the Constitution, to 
 be, for her, the supreme law of the land. The States have their 
 status IN the Union, and they have no other legal status. If they 
 break from this they can do so only against law and by revolu- 
 tion. The Union, and not themselves separately, procured their 
 independence and their liberty by conquest or purchase. The 
 Union gave each of them whatever of independence and liberty it 
 has. The Union is older than any of the States, and, in fact, it 
 created them as States. 
 
 Lord of the universe, shield us and guide us, 
 
 Trusting thee always, through shadow and sun! 
 Thou hast united us, who shall diride ust 
 Keep us, O keep us the many in one! 
 Up with our tanners bright, 
 Sprinkled with starry light, 
 
 Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore, 
 While through the sounding sky 
 Loud rings the nation's cry, 
 "Union and Liberty! One evermore!" 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JUL,Y 23 
 
 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again. Psalms 37 : 21. 
 
 Eeft to Pap t&e SDefttg. 
 
 (Extract from first message to Congress, July 4, 1861. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 The Nation is now in debt for money applied to the benefit of 
 these so-called seceding States, in common with the rest. Is it 
 just, either that creditors shall go unpaid or the remaining States 
 pay the whole? A part of the present National debt was con- 
 tracted to pay the old debt of Texas. Is it just that she shall 
 leave and pay no part of this herself? Again, if one State may 
 secede, so may another, and when all shall have seceded, none is 
 left to pay the debts. Is this quite just to creditors? Did we 
 notify them of this sage view of ours when we borrowed their 
 money? If we now recognize this doctrine by allowing the seced- 
 ers to go in peace, it is difficult to see what we can do if others 
 choose to go, or to extort terms upon which they will promise to 
 remain. 
 
 Honor 's a sacred tie the law of Icings, 
 
 The noble mind's distinguishing perfection 
 
 That aids and strengthens virtue when it meets her, 
 
 And imitates her actions where she is not. 
 
 Addison. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JULY 24 
 
 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them. Jeremiah 11 : 6. 
 
 (Guarantee, 
 
 (Extract from first message to Congress, July 4, 1861. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 He desires to preserve the Government that it may be adminis- 
 tered for all, as it was administered by the men who made it. 
 Loyal citizens everywhere have a right to claim this of their 
 Government, and the Government has no right to withhold or neg- 
 lect it. It is not perceived that in giving it there is any coercion, 
 conquest, or subjugation in any sense of these terms. The Gov- 
 ernment provided, and all the States have accepted the provision, 
 "that the United States shall guarantee to every State in this 
 Union a republican form of government," but if a State may law- 
 fully go out of the Union, having done so, it may also discard the 
 republican form of government. So that to prevent its going out 
 is an indispensable means to the end of maintaining the guar- 
 antee mentioned; and where an end is lawful and obligatory, the 
 indispensable means to it are also lawful and obligatory. 
 
 The honors of a name 't is just to guard; 
 They are a trust but lent us, which we take 
 And should, in reverence to the donor's fame, 
 With care transmit them down to other hands. 
 
 Shirley. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JULY 25 
 
 Trust In the Lord, and do good. Psalms 37 : 3. 
 
 in (Bod. 
 
 (Extract from first message to Congress, July 4, 1861. 
 Concluded from preceding page.) 
 
 In full view of his great responsibilty, he has so far done what 
 he has deemed his duty. You will now, according to your own 
 judgment, perform yours. He sincerely hopes that your views 
 and your actions may so accord with his as to assure all faith- 
 ful citizens who have been disturbed in their rights, of a certain 
 and speedy restoration to them, under the Constitution and laws, 
 and having thus chosen our cause without guile, and with pure 
 purpose, let us renew our trust in God and go forward without 
 fear and with manly hearts. 
 
 Courage, brother! do not stumble, 
 
 Though thy path be dark as night; 
 There 's a star to guide the humble; 
 
 Trust in God and do the right. 
 Let the road be rough and dreary 
 
 And its end far out of sight, 
 Foot it bravely; strong or weary, 
 
 Trust in God and do the right. 
 
 Norman MacLeod. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JULY 26 
 
 I will commit thy government Into his hand. Isaiah 22 : 21. 
 
 (Kobtrnment 
 
 (To a friend In Louisiana, July 26, 1862.) 
 
 I am a patient man always willing to forgive on the Christian 
 terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. 
 Still I must save this Government, if possible. What I cannot do, 
 of course, I will not do; but it may be well understood, once for 
 3,11, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available 
 card unplayed. 
 
 He hears the added strain it bears 
 
 For all who bravely fought, 
 For him who in the silence wears 
 
 The scars the battle brought 
 Who wears them with a hero's might 
 
 And honors still the hour 
 That won a nation's priceless right, 
 
 And proved a nation's dower. 
 
 He hears it when it brings the name 
 
 That won a martyr's crown, 
 Our glorious chief, whose stainless fame 
 
 His country's best renown! 
 It brings the matchless words he said, 
 
 Standing above their sod, 
 In hour whose burning import led 
 
 A people nearer God. 
 
 Mary M. Adams 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JULY S7 
 
 Honour widows that are widows indeed. I. Timothy 5 : 3. 
 
 TOf SDtepengfinff of 
 
 (To the Postmaster-General, July 27, 1863.) 
 
 Yesterday little endorsements of mine went to you in two 
 cases of postmasterships, sought for widows whose husbands have 
 fallen in the battles of this war. These cases, occurring on the 
 same day, brought me to reflect more attentively than what I had 
 before done as to what is fairly due from us here in the dis- 
 pensing of patronage toward the men who by fighting our battles, 
 bear the chief burden of saving our country. My conclusion is 
 that, other claims and qualifications being equal, they have the 
 right, and this is especially applicable to the disabled soldier and 
 the deceased soldier's family. 
 
 Cold now are firesides with love once aglow, 
 
 Cold now are brave hearts that for us nobly fought! 
 
 Loved ones they left, 't is our task now to cheer, 
 Help we the helpless in sorrow who bow, 
 Comfort we bring where war misery brought. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JTJLY 28 
 
 Why stand ye here all the day idle ? Matthew 20 : 6. 
 
 (From a letter written to Mr. Bullitt of New Orleans, July 
 28, 1862.) 
 
 The copy of a letter addressed to yourself by Mr. Thomas J. 
 Durant, has been shown me. The writer appears to be an able, a 
 dispassionate, and an entirely sincere man. The first part of the 
 letter is devoted to an effort to show that the secession ordinance 
 of Louisiana was adopted against the will of a majority of the 
 people. This is probably true, and in that fact may be found 
 some instruction. Why did they allow the ordinance to go into 
 effect? Why did they not exert themselves? Why stand passive 
 and allow themselves to be trodden down by a minority? Why 
 did they not hold popular meetings, and have a convention of 
 their own to express and enforce the true sentiments of the 
 State? If pre-organization was against them, then why not do 
 this now, that the United States army is present to protect them? 
 The paralyzer the dead palsy of the Government in the whole 
 struggle is, that this class of men will do nothing for the Govern- 
 ment, nothing for themselves, except demanding that the Govern- 
 ment shall not strike its enemies, lest they be struck by accident. 
 
 Do not, then, stand idly waiting 
 
 For some greater work to do; 
 Fortune is a lazy goddess, 
 
 She will never come to you. 
 Go and toil in any vineyard; 
 
 Do not fear to do or dare; 
 If you want a field of laoor, 
 
 You can find it anywhere. 
 
 Mrs. Ellen H. Gates. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JULY SO 
 
 Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw 
 near : let them come up. Joel 3 : 9. 
 
 (From a letter to Mr. Bullltt of New Orleans, July 28, 
 1862. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 If there were a class of men who, having no choice of sides in 
 the contest, were anxious only to have quiet and comfort for 
 themselves while it rages, and to fall in with the victorious side 
 at the end of it, without loss to themselves, their advice as to the 
 mode of conducting the contest would be precisely such as his. 
 He speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon 
 Union men. He even thinks it injurious to the Union cause that 
 they should be restrained in trade and passage, without taking 
 sides. They are to touch neither a sail nor a pump live merely 
 passengers ("deadheads" at that), to be carried snug and dry 
 throughout the storm and safely landed right side up. Nay, 
 more even a mutineer is to go untouched, lest these sacred pas- 
 sengers receive an accidental wound. Of course, the rebellion 
 will never be suppressed in Louisiana if the professed Union men 
 there will neither help to do it nor permit the Government to do 
 it without their help. 
 
 Up the hillside, down the glen, 
 Rouse the sleeping citizen: 
 Summons out the might of men. 
 
 Perish party perish clan; 
 Strike together ichile you can 
 Like the strong arm of one man. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JUL.Y 30 
 
 Laying aside all malice. I. Peter 2 : 1. 
 
 in 
 
 (From a letter to Mr. Bullitt of New Orleans, July 28, 
 1862. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 What would you do in my position? Would you drop the war 
 where it is, or would you prosecute it in future with elder-stock 
 squirts, charged with rosewater? Would you deal lighter blows, 
 rather than heavier ones? Would you give up the contest, leav- 
 ing every available means unapplied? I am in no boastful mood. 
 I shall not do more than I can, but I shall do all I can to save the 
 Government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal in- 
 clination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too 
 vast for malicious dealing. 
 
 / never see a wounded enemy, 
 
 Or hear of foe slain on the battle-field, 
 
 But I think me of his pleasant home, 
 
 And how his mother and his sisters watch 
 
 For one who never more returns; poor souls I 
 
 I 've often wept to think how they must weep. 
 
 Mrs. Hale. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 JULY 31 
 
 Let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. Philipplans 
 3:16. 
 
 Eato of 
 
 (Order issued to the entire army, July 30, 1863.) 
 
 It is the duty of every government to give protection to its citi- 
 zens, of whatever class, color, or condition, and especially to those 
 who are duly organized as soldiers in the public service. The 
 law of nations and the usages and customs of war, as carried on 
 by civilized powers, permit no distinction as to color in the treat- 
 ment of prisoners of war as public enemies. To sell or enslave 
 any captured person, on account of his color, and for no offense 
 against the laws of war, is a relapse into barbarism and a crime 
 against the civilization of the age. The Government of the United 
 States will give the same protection to all its soldiers; and if the 
 enemy shall sell or enslave any one because of his color, the 
 offense shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's pris- 
 oners in our possessions. 
 
 But let our tribute reach the height 
 
 The larger manhood saw; 
 That broad humanity whose light 
 
 Was Thy diviner laic; 
 That laic ivhose good is absolute. 
 
 Whose mandate, strong and pure, 
 From every ill can good transmute, 
 
 And make its change secure. 
 
 Mary M. Adams. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN TEAR BOOK 
 
 AUGUST 1 
 
 Now I beseech you . . . that ye strive together with me in your 
 prayers to God for me. Romans 15 : 30. 
 
 of tlK Pioug and tlje 
 
 (Reply to Rev. Dr. Pohlman and others of the General 
 Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lancaster, 
 Pennsylvania, August, 1864.) 
 
 I welcome here the representatives of the Evangelical Luther- 
 ans of the United States. I accept with gratitude their assur- 
 ances of the sympathy and support of that enlightened, influen- 
 tial, and loyal class of my fellow-citizens in an important crisis, 
 which involves, in my judgment, not only the civil and religious 
 liberties of our own dear land, hut in a large degree the civil and 
 religious liberties of mankind in many countries and through 
 many ages. You well know, gentlemen, and the whole world 
 knows how reluctantly I accepted this issue of battle forced upon 
 me, on my advent to this place, by the internal enemies of our 
 country. . . . You all may recollect that in taking up the sword 
 thus forced into our hands, this Government appealed to the 
 prayers of the pious and the good, and declared that it placed its 
 whole dependence upon the favor of God. I now humbly and 
 reverently, 'n your presence, reiterate the acknowledgement of 
 that dependence, not doubting that if it shall please the Divine 
 Being who determines the destinies of nations, that this shall re- 
 main a united people, they will, humbly seeking the Divine guid- 
 ance, make their prolonged national existence a source of new 
 benefits to themselves and their successors, and to all classes and 
 conditions of mankind. 
 
 We tell thy doom without a sigh, 
 
 For thou art Freedom's now, and Fame's 
 
 One of the few immortal names 
 That were not born to die. 
 
 Halleck. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 AUGUST 2 
 
 And men were scorched with great heat, . . . and blasphemed the God 
 of heaven because of their pains and their sores. Revelation 16 : 9, 11. 
 
 C5ot to >it on tfie 
 
 (To a private secretary of one of the cabinet ministers, 
 who presented a discouraging account of the political situa- 
 tion in August, 1864.) 
 
 Well, I cannot run the political machine; I have enough on my 
 hands without that. It is the people's business the election is 
 in their hands. If they turn their hacks to the fire and get 
 scorched in the rear, they'll find they have got to sit on the 
 blister. 
 
 (At another time, referring to the probability of his renomination.) 
 
 If the people think I have managed their "case" for them well 
 enough to trust me to carry it up to the next term, I am sure I 
 shall be glad to take it. 
 
 O rough, strong soul, your noble self-possession 
 Is unforgotten. Still your work remains. 
 
 You freed from bondage and from vile oppression 
 A race in clanking chains. 
 
 Eugene J. Hall. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 AUGUST 3 
 
 Great men are not always wise : . . . I also will show mine opinion. 
 Job. 32 : 9, 10. 
 
 <a00umeb 
 
 (From speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857.) 
 
 I have said, in substance, that the Dred Scott decision was, in 
 part, based on assumed historical facts which were not really 
 true, and I ought not to leave the subject without giving some 
 reasons for saying this. I therefore give an instance or two, 
 which I think fully sustain me. Chief Justice Taney, in deliver- 
 ing the opinion of the majority of the Court, insists at great 
 length that negroes were no part of the people who made, or for 
 whom was made the Declaration of Independence, or the Consti- 
 tution of the United States. On the contrary, Judge Curtis, in his 
 dissenting opinion, shows that in five of the then thirteen States, 
 to wit, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, 
 and North Carolina, free negroes were voters, and, in proportion 
 to their numbers, had the same part in making the Constitution 
 that the white people had. 
 
 This is a great fault in a chronologer, 
 To turn parasite; an absolute historian 
 Should be in fear of none; neither should he 
 Write anything more than truth for friendship 
 Or else for hate; but keep himself equal 
 And constant in all his discourses. 
 
 Lingua. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 AUGUST 4 
 
 The rich and poor meet together : the Lord is the maker of them 
 all. Proverbs 22 : 2. 
 
 jail Better anto happier 
 
 (Written July 1, 1854.) 
 
 Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial 
 of the equal rights of men. Ours began by affirming those rights. 
 They said, "Some men are too ignorant and vicious to share in 
 government." "Possibly so," said we, "and by your system you 
 would always keep them ignorant and vicious. We propose to 
 give all a chance, and we expect the weaker to grow stronger, the 
 ignorant wiser, and all better and happier together." We made 
 the experiment, and the fruit is before us. Look at it, and think 
 of it! Look at it in its aggregate grandeur, extent of country, 
 and numbers of population. 
 
 God of the Free! our Nation Mess 
 
 In its strong manhood as its Mrth, 
 And make its life a star of hope 
 
 For all the struggling of the earth. 
 
 Then shout beside thine Oak, O North ! 
 
 O South, icave answer icith thy Palm ! 
 And in our Union's heritage 
 
 Together sing the Nation's psalm! 
 
 W. R. Wallace. 
 
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 AUGUST 5 
 
 Prepare ye the way of the people ; . . . lift up a standard for the 
 people. Isaiah 62 : 10. 
 
 foe t&e jfteto Kelationg. 
 
 (From letter to General Banks, August 5, 1863.) 
 
 While I very well know what I would be glad for Louisiana to 
 do, it is quite a different thing for me to assume direction of the 
 matter. I would be glad for her to make a new Constitution, 
 recognizing the Emancipation Proclamation, and adopting eman- 
 cipation in those parts of the State to which the Proclamation 
 does not apply. And while she is at it, I think it would not be 
 objectionable for her to adopt some practical system by which 
 the two races could gradually live themselves out of their old re- 
 lations to each other, and both come out better prepared for the 
 new. Education for young blacks should be included in the plan. 
 After all, the power of element of "contact" may be sufficient 
 for this probationary period, and by its simplicity and flexibility 
 may be better. As an anti-slavery man, I have a motive to desire 
 emancipation which pro-slavery men do not have; but even they 
 have strong enough reason to thus place themselves again under 
 the shield of the Union, and to thus perpetually pledge against 
 the recurrence of the scenes through which we are now passing. 
 
 Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; 
 Fold the whole earth in peace 
 
 Under thy wings; 
 Make all thy nations one, 
 All hearts beneath thy sun, 
 Till thou shalt reign alone, 
 
 Great King of kings. 
 
 O. W. Holmes. 
 
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 AUGUST 6 
 
 Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? . . . that thou layest the 
 burden of all this people upon me? Numbers 11:11. 
 
 &olicitudt tor 'W* (Breat Country. 
 
 (In reply, August, 1864, to Ex-Governor Randall, of Wis- 
 consin, who suggested that he seek seculsion and play hermit 
 for invigoration.) 
 
 Aye, two or three weeks would do me good, but I cannot fly 
 from my thoughts; my solicitude for this great country follows 
 me wherever I go. I don't think it is personal vanity or ambi- 
 tion, though I am not free from these infirmities, but I cannot 
 but feel that the weal or woe of this great Nation will be decided 
 in November. There is no program offered by any wing of the 
 Democratic party but that must result in the permanent destruc- 
 tion of the Union. 
 
 Through years of care, to rest and joy a stranger, 
 You saw complete the work you had begun; 
 
 Thoughtless of threats, nor heeding death or danger, 
 You toiled till all was done. 
 
 Eugene J. Hall. 
 
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 AUGUST 7 
 
 Showing all good fidelity. Titus 2 : 10. 
 
 jFaitf) toitfi jfrienu anu foe. 
 
 (To Ex-Governor Randall and others, in August, 1864. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 There have been men base enough to propose to me to return 
 to slavery the black warriors of Port Hudson and Olustree, and 
 thus win the respect of the masters they fought. Should I do so, 
 I should deserve to be damned in time and eternity. Come what 
 will, I will keep my faith with friend and foe. My enemies pre- 
 tend that I am now carrying on this war for the sole purpose of 
 abolition. So long as I am President, it shall be carried on for 
 the sole purpose of restoring the Union; but no human power 
 can subdue this rebellion without the use of the emancipation 
 policy, and every other policy calculates to weaken the moral 
 and physical forces of the rebellion. 
 
 Let come what will, I mean to bear it out, 
 
 And either live with glorious victory 
 
 Or die with fame, renown' A for chivalry: 
 
 He is not worthy of the honeycomb, 
 
 That shuns the hive because the bees have stings. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
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 AUGUST 8 
 
 Let all mine enemies be ashamed ... let them return. Psalms 6 : 10. 
 
 (To Ex-Governor Randall and others, In August, 1864. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 Freedom has given us two hundred thousand men raised on 
 Southern soil. It will give us more yet. Just so much it has sub- 
 tracted from the enemy, and instead of alienating the South, 
 there are now evidences of a fraternal feeling growing up be- 
 tween our men and the rank and file of the rebel soldiers. Let 
 my enemies prove to the country that the destruction of slavery 
 is not necessary to a restoration of the Union. I will abide the 
 issue. 
 
 Beyond the present sin and shame, 
 
 Wrong's bitter, cruel, scorching blight, 
 We see the end at which we aim 
 
 The blessed kingdom of the Right. 
 What though its coming long delay, 
 
 With haughty foes it still must cope; 
 It gives us that for which to pray 
 
 A field for toil and faith and hope. 
 
 W. DeWitt Hyde. 
 
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 AUGUST 9 
 
 Every day wrest my words. Psalms 56 : 5. 
 
 in felabe &tat*0. 
 
 (From a speech at Chicago, July 10, 1858.) 
 
 I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take 
 it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no in- 
 clination, in the people of the free States to enter into the slave 
 States and interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have 
 said that always; Judge Douglas has heard me say it if not 
 quite a hundred times, at least as good as a hundred times; and 
 when it is said that I am in favor of interfering with slavery 
 where it exists, I know it is unwarranted by anything I have ever 
 intended, and, as I believe, by anything I have ever said. If by 
 any means I have ever used language which could fairly be so 
 construed (as, however, I believe I never have), I now correct it. 
 So much, then, for the inference that Judge Douglas draws, that 
 I am in favor of setting the sections at war with one another. 
 
 He finds his fellow guilty of a skin 
 
 Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r 
 
 T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause 
 
 Dooms and devotes him as his laivful prey. 
 
 Cowper. 
 
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 AUGUST 10 
 
 What Is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God 
 taketh away his soul ? Job 27 : 8. 
 
 j|5o 
 
 (From a speech at Chicago, July 10, 1858. Continued 
 from preceding page.) 
 
 I do not claim, gentlemen, to be unselfish; I do not pretend 
 that I would not like to go to the United States Senate; I make 
 no such hypocritical pretense, but I do say to you that in this 
 mighty issue it is nothing to you nothing to the mass of the 
 people of the Nation, whether or not Judge Douglas or myself 
 shall ever be heard of after this night; it may be a trifle to either 
 of us, but in connection with this mighty question, upon which 
 hang the destinies of the Nation, perhaps, it is absolutely noth- 
 ing; but where will you be placed if you reindorse Judge Douglas? 
 . . . Plainly, you stand ready saddled, bridled, and harnessed, 
 and waiting to be driven over to the slavery extension camp of 
 the Nation just ready to be driven over, tied together in a lot, 
 to be driven over, every man with a rope around his neck, that 
 halter being held by Judge Douglas. 
 
 Vain these dreams, and vain these hopes; 
 
 And yet 't is these give birth 
 To each high purpose, generous deed, 
 
 That sanctifies our earth. 
 He icho hath highest aims in view 
 Must dream at first what he will do. 
 
 Miss Landon. 
 
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 AUGUST 11 
 
 This I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. Col- 
 ossians 2 : 4. 
 
 Counterfeit Hogtc. 
 
 (From a speech in Chicago, July 10, 1858. Continued 
 from preceding page.) 
 
 We were often more than once at least in the course of 
 Judge Douglas's speech last night, reminded that this Government 
 was made for white men that he believed it was made for white 
 men. Well, that is putting it into a shape in which no one wants 
 to deny it; but the Judge then goes into his passion for drawing 
 inferences which are not warranted. I protest now, and forever, 
 against that counterfeit logic which presumes that because I did 
 not want a negro woman for a slave, I do necessarily want her 
 for a wife. My understanding is that I need not have her for 
 either, but as God made us separate, we can leave one another 
 alone, and do one another good thereby. There are white men 
 enough to marry all the white women, and enough black men to 
 marry all the black women, and in God's name let them be so 
 married. The Judge regales us with the terrible enormities that 
 take place by the mixtures of races; that the inferior race bears 
 the superior down. Why, Judge, if we do not let them get to- 
 gether in the Territories they won't mix there. 
 
 Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again, 
 
 The eternal years of God are hers; 
 But Error, wounded, writhes in pain 
 
 And dies amid her worshipers. 
 
 Bryant. 
 
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 AUGUST 12 
 
 They are written for our admonition. I. Corinthians 10 : 11. 
 
 Sin &&m0niti0n of flDur Eorfr. 
 
 (From a speech in Chicago, July 10, 1858. Continued 
 from preceding page.) 
 
 My friend has said to me that I am a poor hand to quote Scrip- 
 ture. I will try it again, however. It is said in one of the admo- 
 nitions of our Lord, "As your Father in heaven is perfect, be ye 
 also perfect." The Savior, I suppose, did not expect that any 
 human creature could be perfect as the Father in heaven, but he 
 said, "As your Father in heaven is perfect, be ye also perfect." 
 He set that up as a standard, and he who did most toward reach- 
 ing that standard attained the highest degree, of moral perfec- 
 tion. So I say in relation to the principle that all men are cre- 
 ated equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can. If we cannot 
 give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will im- 
 pose slavery upon any other creature. 
 
 Whoever, with an earnest soul, 
 
 Strives for some end from this low world afar, 
 Still upward travels though he miss the goal, 
 
 And strays tut towards a- star! 
 
 Bulicer. 
 
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 AUGUST 13 
 
 If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth 
 he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seek- 
 eth that which is gone astray ? Matthew 18 : 12. 
 
 Parable of t& 
 
 (From speech at Springfield, Illinois, July 17, 1858.) 
 
 He says I have a proneness for quoting Scripture. If I should 
 do so now, it occurs that perhaps he places himself somewhat 
 upon the ground of the parable of the lost sheep which went 
 astray upon the mountains, and when the owner of the hundred 
 sheep found the one that was lost, and threw it upon his shoul- 
 ders and came home rejoicing, it was said that there was more 
 rejoicing over the one sheep that was lost and had been found, 
 than over the ninety and nine in the fold. The application is 
 made by the Savior in this parable thus: "Verily, I say unto 
 you, there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner that re- 
 penteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no 
 repentance." And now, if the Judge claims the benefit of this 
 parable, let him repent; let him not come up here and say, "I am 
 the only just person, and you are the ninety-nine sinners!" Re- 
 pentance before forgiveness is a provision of the Christian sys- 
 tem, and on that condition alone will the Republicans grant his 
 forgiveness. 
 
 There were ninety and nine that safely lay 
 
 In the shelter of the fold, 
 But one was out on the hills away. 
 
 Far off from the gates of gold 
 Away on the mountains icild and bare, 
 Away from the tender shepherd's care. 
 
 E. C. Clephane. 
 
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 AUGUST 14 
 
 Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the 
 heart. I. Samuel 16 : 7. 
 
 Ifngitie of a (Cattleman. 
 
 (From a speech at Springfield, Illinois, July 17, 1858. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 I shall make the quotation now, with some comments upon it, 
 as I have already said, in order that the Judge shall be left en- 
 tirely without excuse for misrepresenting me. I do so now, as I 
 hope, for the last time. I do this in great caution, in order that 
 if he repeats his misrepresentation, it shall be plain to all that 
 he does so wilfully. If, after all, he still persists, I shall be com- 
 pelled to reconstruct the course I have marked out for myself, 
 and draw upon such humble resources as I have for a new course 
 better suited to the real exigencies of the case. I set out, in this 
 campaign, with the intention of conducting it strictly as a gentle- 
 man, in substance at least, if not in the outside polish. The latter 
 I shall never be, but that which constitutes the inside of a gentle- 
 man I hope I understand, and am not less inclined to practice 
 than others. It was my purpose and expectation that this can- 
 vass would be conducted upon principle and with fairness on 
 both sides, and it shall not be my fault if this purpose and expec- 
 tation shall be given up. 
 
 Lincoln, your manhood shall survive forever, 
 Shedding a fadeless halo 'round your name, 
 
 Urging men on, with wise and strong endeavor, 
 To bright and honest fame! 
 
 Eugene J. Hall. 
 
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 AUGUST 15 
 
 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty 
 things, which thou knowest not. Jeremiah 33 : 3. 
 
 C5ot) &uperinten& t&e Solution. 
 
 (Prom a letter to Honorable Robertson, Lexington, Ken- 
 tucky, August 15, 1855.) 
 
 So far as peaceful, voluntary emancipation is concerned, the 
 condition of the negro slave in America, scarcely less terrible to 
 the contemplation of a free mind, is now as fixed and hopeless of 
 change for the better as that of the lost souls of the finally im- 
 penitent. The Autocrat of all the Russians will resign his crown 
 and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our 
 American masters voluntarily give up their slaves. Our political 
 problem now is, "Can we, as a Nation, continue together perma- 
 nently forever half slave and half free?" The problem is too 
 mighty for me. May God in his mercy superintend the solution. 
 
 God moves in a mysterious way, 
 
 His wonders to perform; 
 He plants his footsteps in the sea, 
 
 And rides upon the storm. 
 
 Blind unbelief is sure to err 
 And scan his work in vain; 
 
 God is Ms own interpreter, 
 And he will make it plain. 
 
 Cowper. 
 
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 AUGUST 16 
 
 Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn 
 war any more. Isaiah 2 : 4. 
 
 Colors t&an Onr. 
 
 (Extract from letter written August 16, 1863, to Honor- 
 able James C. Conkllng, of Illinois.) 
 
 The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes un- 
 vexed to the sea. Thanks to the great Northwest for it; nor yet 
 wholly to them. Three hundred miles up they met New Eng- 
 land, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey hewing their way right and 
 left. The sunny South, too, in more colors than one, also lent a 
 helping hand. On the spot their part of the history was jotted 
 down in black and white. The job was a great national one, and 
 let none be slighted who bore an honorable part in it. ... Nor 
 must Uncle Sam's web feet be forgotten. At all the watery mar- 
 gins they have been present, not only on the deep sea, the broad 
 bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, 
 and wherever the ground was a little damp they have been and 
 made their tracks. Thanks to all. 
 
 There 's a good time coming, toys, 
 
 A good time coming: 
 We may not live to see the day, 
 But earth shall glisten in the ray 
 
 Of the good time coming. 
 Cannon balls may aid the truth, 
 
 But thought's a weapon stronger; 
 We 'II win our tattle by its aid; 
 
 Wait a little longer. 
 
 Charles Mackay. 
 
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 AUGUST 17 
 
 Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart : for con- 
 sider how great things he hath done for you. I. Samuel 12 : 24. 
 
 (Extract from letter, written August 16, 1863, to Honor- 
 able James C. Conkllng, of Illinois. Continued from preced- 
 ing page.) 
 
 Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come 
 soon, and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the keeping 
 in all future time. It will then have been proved that among 
 free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the 
 bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their 
 case and pay the cost. And there will be some black men who 
 can remember that with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and 
 steady eye, and well-poised bayonet they have helped mankind on 
 to this great consummation; while I fear there will be some white 
 men unable to forget that with malignant and deceitful speech 
 they have striven to hinder it. Still, let us not be over sanguine 
 of a speedy final triumph. Let us be quite sober. Let us dili- 
 gently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his 
 own good time, will give us the rightful result. 
 
 We bless thee for the growing light, 
 
 The advancing thought, the widening view, 
 The larger freedom, clearer sight, 
 
 Which from the old unfolds the new. 
 With wider view comes loftier goal; 
 
 With fuller light more good to see; 
 With freedom, fuller self-control; 
 
 With knowledge, deeper reverence be. 
 
 Samuel Longfelloic. 
 
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 AUGUST 18 
 
 Leave it for an inheritance for your children after you. I. Chronicles 
 28:8. 
 
 (Extract from speech to a regiment of Ohio hundred-day 
 men, who visited the President August 18, 1864.) 
 
 I wish it to be more generally understood what the country is 
 now engaged in. We have, as all will agree, a free government, 
 where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. 
 In this great struggle this form of government and every form of 
 human rights are endangered if our enemies succeed. There is 
 more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There 
 is involved in this struggle the question whether your children 
 and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed. I 
 say this in order to impress upon you, if you are not already so 
 impressed, that no small matter should divert us from our great 
 purpose. There may be some inequalities in the practical appli- 
 cation of our system. It is fair that each man shall pay taxes in 
 exact proportion to the value of his property; but if we should 
 wait, before collecting a tax, to adjust the taxes upon each man 
 in exact proportion with every other man, we should never col- 
 lect any tax at all. There may be mistakes made sometimes; 
 things may be done wrong while all the officers of the Govern- 
 ment do all they can to prevent mistakes. 
 
 O God of battles, let thy might 
 Protect our armies in the fight 
 Till they shall win the victory 
 And set the hapless bondman free: 
 
 Till, guided by thy glorious hand, 
 Those armies reunite the land, 
 And North and South alike shall raise 
 To God their peaceful hymns of praise. 
 
 Park Benjamin. 
 
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 AUGUST 19 
 
 An horse Is a vain thing for safety ; neither shall he deliver any by his 
 great strength. Psalms 33 : 17. 
 
 Britc&en 
 
 (In reply to Douglas in the campaign of 1852, who spoke 
 of confidence in Providence.) 
 
 Let us stand by our candidate (General Scott) as faithfully as 
 he has always stood by our country, and I much doubt if we do 
 not perceive a slight abatement of Judge Douglas's confidence in 
 Providence as well as the people. I suspect that confidence is not 
 more firmly fixed with the Judge than it was with the old woman 
 whose horse ran away with her in a buggy. She said she "trusted 
 in Providence till the britchen broke," and then she "didn't know 
 what on airth to do." The chance is, the Judge will see the 
 britchen broke, and then he can, at his leisure, bewail the fate of 
 Locofocism as the victim of misplaced confidence. 
 
 Better to weave in the iceb of life 
 
 A bright and golden filling, 
 And to do God's will with a ready heart 
 
 And hands that are swift and icilling, 
 Than to snap the delicate thread 
 
 Of a curious life asunder, 
 And then Heaven blame for the tangled ends, 
 
 And sit and grieve and wonder. 
 
 Charles Mackay. 
 
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 AUGUST 20 
 
 Let God be true, but every man a liar. Romans 3 : 4. 
 
 &utijoritp of a Digger Character. 
 
 (From first joint debate with Mr. Douglas, at Ottawa, 
 Illinois, August 21, 1858.) 
 
 He has read from my speech in Springfield, in which I say, 
 "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Does the Judge 
 say it can stand? I don't know whether he does or not. The 
 Judge does not seem to be attending to me just now, but I would 
 like to know if it is his opinion that a house divided against 
 itself can stand. If he does, then there is a question of veracity, 
 not between him and me, but between the Judge and an authority 
 of a somewhat higher character. Now, my friends, I ask your 
 attention to this matter for the purpose of saying something 
 seriously. I know that the Judge may readily enough agree with 
 me that the maxim which was put forth by the Savior is true, 
 but he may allege that I misapply it; and the Judge has a right 
 to urge that, in my application, I do misapply it, and then I have 
 a right to show that I do not misapply it. When he undertakes to 
 say that because I think this Nation, so far as the question of 
 slavery is concerned, will all become one thing or all the other, I 
 am in favor of bringing about a dead uniformity in the various 
 States, in all their institutions, he argues erroneously. 
 
 Make us eternal truths receive, 
 And practice all that we believe; 
 Give us thyself, that we may see 
 The Father and the Son by thee. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 AUGUST 21 
 
 Neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know. I. Thessa- 
 lonians 2 : 5. 
 
 & Compliment 
 
 (From first joint debate with Mr. Douglas at Ottawa, 
 Illinois, August 21, 1858, referring to his "Divided-House" 
 speech. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 When my friend, Judge Douglas, came to Chicago, on the 9th 
 of July, this speech having been delivered on the 16th of June, he 
 made an harangue there, in which he took hold of this speech of 
 mine, showing that he had carefully read it; and while he paid 
 no attention to this matter at all, but complimented me as being 
 a "kind, amiable, and intelligent gentleman," notwithstanding I 
 had said this, he goes on and eliminates or draws out from my 
 speech this tendency of mine to set the States at war with one 
 another, to make all the institutions uniform, and set the niggers 
 and white people to marrying together. Then, as the Judge had 
 complimented me with these pleasant titles (I must confess my 
 weakness), I was a little "taken," for it came from a great man. 
 I was not very much accustomed to flattery, and it came the 
 sweeter to me. I was like the Hoosier with the gingerbread, 
 when he said he reckoned he loved it better than any other man, 
 and got less of it. As the Judge has so flattered me, I could not 
 make up my mind that he meant to deal unfairly with me, so I 
 went to work to show him that he misunderstood the whole scope 
 of my speech, and that I really never intended to set the people 
 at war with one another. 
 
 Treachery often lurks 
 
 In compliments. You have sent so many posts 
 Of undertakings, they outride performance, 
 And make me think your fair pretences aim 
 At some intended ill, which my prevention 
 Must strive to avert. 
 
 Xabb. 
 
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 AUGUST 22 
 
 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof : but by a 
 man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged. 
 Proverbs 28 : 2. 
 
 tfje Union. 
 
 (Extract from a reply to an editorial In the New York 
 Tribune by Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862.) 
 
 I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under 
 the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be re- 
 stored, the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If 
 there be those who would not save the Union unless they could 
 at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If 
 there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at 
 the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My 
 paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and not 
 either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union with- 
 out freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by 
 freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing 
 some and leaving others alone, I would do that. What I do about 
 slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to 
 save this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not 
 believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever 
 I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do 
 more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. 
 
 To the hero, when his sivord 
 
 Has won the battle for the free, 
 Death's voice sounds like a prophet's word: 
 And in its hollow tones are heard 
 The thanks of millions yet to be. 
 
 Halleck 
 
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 AUGUST 23 
 
 Thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Proverbs 27 : 1. 
 
 Co-operate toitf) tfjc 
 
 (Prom a memorandum dated August 23, 1864.) 
 
 This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly prob- 
 able that this administration will not be reflected. Then it will 
 be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect as to save the 
 Union between the election and the inauguration, as he will have 
 secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save 
 it afterwards. 
 
 Safe in Fame's gallery through all the years, 
 Our dearest picture hangs, your steadfast face, 
 Whose eyes hold all the pathos of the race 
 
 Redeemed by you from servitude's sad tears. 
 
 And how redeemed f With agony of grief; 
 
 With ceaseless labor in war's lurid light; 
 
 With such deep anguish in each lonely night, 
 Your soul sweat very blood ere came relief. 
 
 What crown have you who bore that cross below t 
 
 O faithful one, what is your life above f 
 
 Is there a higher gift in God's pure love 
 Than to have lived on earth as Man of Woef 
 
 Mary Livingston Burdick. 
 
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 AUGUST 24 
 
 A man after mine own heart. Acts 13 : 22. 
 
 Clap. 
 
 (From first joint debate with Mr. Douglas at Ottawa, 
 Illinois, August 21, 1858.) 
 
 Henry Clay, my beau ideal of a statesman, the man for whom 
 I fought all my humble life Henry Clay once said of a class of 
 men who would repress all tendencies to liberty and ultimate 
 emancipation, that they must, if they would do this, go back to 
 the era of our Independence and muzzle the cannon which thun- 
 ders its annual joyous return; they must blow out the moral 
 lights around us; they must penetrate the human soul and eradi- 
 cate there the love of liberty; and then, and not till then, could 
 they perpetuate slavery in this country! To my thinking, Judge 
 Douglas is, by his example and vast influence, doing that very 
 thing in this community, when he says that the negro has noth- 
 ing in the Declaration of Independence. Henry Clay plainly 
 understood the contrary. 
 
 We tell thy doom without a sigh, 
 For thou art Freedom's now, and Fame's; 
 One of the feic, th' immortal names, 
 
 That were not born to die. 
 
 Halleck. 
 
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 AUGUST 25 
 
 Her sun is gone down while It was yet day. Jeremiah 15 : 9. 
 
 Sinn l&utledge. 
 
 (Ann Rutledge, to whom Mr. Lincoln was engaged, died 
 August 25, 1835. Said to a friend one stormy night shortly 
 after her death.) 
 
 The thought of the snow and the rain on her grave fills me 
 with indescribable grief. 
 
 (To an old friend, after his election to the Presidency, 
 who asked if it was true that he loved and courted Ann 
 Rutledge.) 
 
 It is true true; indeed I did. I have loved the name of Rut- 
 ledge to this day. It was my first. I loved the woman dearly. 
 She was a handsome girl; would have made a good, loving wife; 
 was natural and quite intellectual, though not highly educated. 
 I did honestly and truly love the girl, and think often of her now. 
 
 And then I think of one who in 
 
 Her youthful beauty died, 
 The fair, meek 'blossom that grew up 
 
 And faded by my side; 
 In the cold, moist earth we laid her, 
 
 When the forest cast the leaf, 
 And we wept that one so lovely 
 
 Should have a life so brief: 
 Yet not unmeet it was that one, 
 
 Like that young friend of ours, 
 So gentle and so beautiful, 
 
 Should perish with the flowers. 
 
 Bryant. 
 
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 AUGUST 20 
 
 Let us lay aside every weight. Hebrews 12 : 1. 
 
 Qfllaibe S^mor SDtffmnceg. 
 
 (Prom a speech in second joint debate with Mr. Douglas, 
 at Freeport, Illinois, August 27, 1858.) 
 
 For my part, I do hope that all of us, entertaining a common 
 sentiment in opposition to what appears to us a design to nation- 
 alize and perpetuate slavery, will waive minor differences on 
 questions which either belong to the dead past or the distant 
 future, and all pull together in this struggle. What are your 
 sentiments? If it be true that on the ground which I occupy 
 ground which I occupy as frankly and boldly as Judge Douglas 
 does his my views, though partly coinciding with yours, are 
 not as perfectly in accordance with your feelings as his are, I do 
 say to you in all candor, go for him and not for me. I hope to 
 deal in all things fairly with Judge Douglas, and with the people 
 of the State, in this contest. And if I should never be elected to 
 any office, I trust I may go down with no stain of falsehood upon 
 my reputation. 
 
 Some positive, persisting fops we know 
 Who, if once wrong, will need 'be always so; 
 But you with pleasure own your errors past, 
 And make each day a critique on the last. 
 
 Pope. 
 
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 AUGUST 27 
 
 Is there not a cause? I. Samuel 17:29. 
 
 Eifee CaugfiS pro&ucf Eite CEffrctg. 
 
 (From a speech in third joint debate with Mr. Douglas at 
 Jonesboro, Illinois, September 15, 1858.) 
 
 Have we ever had any quarrels over the fact they have laws in 
 Louisiana designed to regulate the commerce that springs from 
 the production of sugar? or because we have a different class 
 relative to the production of fine flour in this State? Have they 
 produced any differences? Not at all. They are the very cements 
 of this Union. They don't make the house a house divided 
 against itself. They are the props that hold up the house and 
 sustain the Union. But has it been so with the element of 
 slavery? Have we not always had quarrels and difficulties over 
 it? And when will we cease to have quarrels over it? Like 
 causes produce like effects. It is worth while to observe that we 
 have generally had comparative peace upon the slavery question, 
 and that there has been no cause for alarm until it was excited 
 by the effort to spread it into new territory. Whenever it has 
 been limited to its present bounds, and there has been no effort 
 to spread it, there has been peace. 
 
 O Opportunity! thy guilt is great: 
 
 'T is thou that execut'st the traitor's treason; 
 
 Thou sett'st the wolf where he the lamb may get ; 
 Whoever plots the sin, thou point'st the season; 
 'T is thou that spurn'st at right, at law, at reason. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
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 AUGUST 28 
 
 Thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us. Daniel 9 : 16. 
 
 gour Eac* buttering a d5reat Sfllrong. 
 
 (Extract from an address to free colored people, on 
 Colonization, August 14, 1862.) 
 
 Perhaps you have long been free, or all your lives. Your race 
 is suffering, in my judgment, the greatest wrong inflicted on any 
 people. But even when you cease to he slaves, you are yet far re- 
 moved from being placed on an equality with the white race. You 
 are cut off from many of the advantages which the other race en- 
 joys. The aspiration of men is to enjoy equality with the best 
 when free, but on this broad continent not a single man of your 
 race is made the equal of a single man of ours. Go where you 
 are treated the best, and the ban is still upon you. I do not pro- 
 pose to discuss this, but to present it as a fact with which we 
 have to deal. I cannot alter it if I would. . . . Owing to the 
 existence of the two races on this continent, I need not recount 
 to you the effects upon white men growing out of the institution of 
 slavery. I believe in its general evil effects upon the white race. 
 See our present condition the country engaged in war; our 
 white men cutting each other's throats; none knowing how far 
 it will extend and then consider what we know to be the truth. 
 But for your race among us there could be no war. 
 
 In this icorld of sin and sorrow 
 
 There are burdens we must bear, 
 There are conflicts and sore trials 
 
 That we must dally share. 
 There 's a tempter to be baffled, 
 
 There are wrongs to be made right; 
 There are stubborn hearts to conquer, 
 
 There are foes to be put to flight. 
 
 A, B. OondQ, 
 
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 AUGUST 29 
 
 Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our 
 nativity. Jeremiah 46 : 16. 
 
 Better to be Separated. 
 
 (Extract from an address to free colored people on Colo- 
 nization, August 14, 1862. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 It is better for us both, therefore, to be separated. I know that 
 there are free men among you who, even if they could better their 
 condition, are not as much inclined to go out of the country as 
 those who, being slaves, could obtain their freedom on this con- 
 dition. . . . But you ought to do something to help those who are 
 not so fortunate as yourselves. There is an unwillingness on the 
 part of our people, harsh as it may be, for you free colored people 
 to remain with us. Now, if you could give a start to the white 
 people you would open a wide door for many to be made free. If 
 we deal with those who are not free at the beginning, and whose 
 intellects are clouded by slavery, we have very poor material to 
 start with. If intelligent colored men, such as are before me, 
 would move in this matter, much might be accomplished. It is 
 exceedingly important that we have men at the beginning capa- 
 ble of thinking as white men, and not those who have been syste- 
 matically oppressed. There is much to encourage YOU. For the 
 sake of your race you should sacrifice something of your present 
 comfort for the purpose of being as grand in that respect as the 
 white people. 
 
 Think not too meanly of thy low estate; 
 Thou hast a choice; to choose is to create! 
 Remember whose the sacred lips that tell, 
 Angels approve thee when thy choice is well; 
 Use well the freedom which thy Master gave. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
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 AUGUST 30 
 
 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people. Psalms 83 : 3. 
 
 attachment ^otoarto flDur IfiUce. 
 
 (Extract from address to free colored people on Coloni- 
 zation, August 14, 1862. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 The colony of Liberia has been in existence a long time. In a 
 certain sense it is a success. The old president of Liberia, Rob- 
 erts, has just been with me; the first time I ever saw him. He 
 says they have within the bounds of that colony between three 
 and four hundred thousand people, or more than in some of our 
 old States, such as Rhode Island or Delaware, or in some of our 
 newer States, and less than in some of our larger ones. They are 
 not all American colonists or their descendants. Something less 
 than 12,000 have been sent thither from this country. ... I do 
 not know how much attachment you may have toward our race. 
 It does not strike me that you have the greatest reason to love 
 them; but still you are attached to them, at all events. The 
 place I am thinking about having for a colony is in Central Amer- 
 ica. It is nearer to us than Liberia. Unlike Liberia, it is a great 
 line of travel, it is a highway. The country is a very excellent 
 one for any people, and with great natural resources and advan- 
 tages, and especially because of the similarity of climate with 
 your native soil, thus being suited to your physical condition. 
 
 Abused mortals! did you know 
 
 Where joy, heart's-case, and comforts grow? 
 
 You 'd scorn proud towers, 
 
 And seek them in these bowers, 
 
 Where winds sometimes our words may shake, 
 
 But blustering care could never tempests make, 
 
 Nor murmurs e'er come nigh us 
 
 Saving of fountains that glide by us. 
 
 Sir W. Raleigh. 
 
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 AUGUST 31 
 
 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together. 
 Isaiah 41:20. 
 
 of (Breat importance. 
 
 (Extract from address to free colored people on Coloni- 
 zation, August 14, 1862. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 The practical thing I want to ascertain is, whether I can get a 
 number of able-bodied men, with their wives and children, who 
 are willing to go, when I present evidence, encouragement, and 
 protection. Could I get a hundred tolerably intelligent men, with 
 their wives and children, and able to "cut their own fodder," so 
 to speak? Can I get fifty? If I could find twenty-five able-bodied 
 men, with a mixture of women and children good things in the 
 family relation, I think I could make a successful commence- 
 ment. I want you to let me know whether it can be done or not. 
 This, is the practical part of my wish to see you. These are sub- 
 jects of very great importance, worthy of a month's study, of a 
 speech delivered in an hour. I ask you, then, to consider seriously, 
 not pertaining to yourselves merely, nor for your race and ours 
 for the present time, but as one of the things, if successfully man- 
 aged, for the good of mankind, not confined to the present gen- 
 eration, but as 
 
 "From age to age descends the lay, 
 
 To millions yet to be, 
 Till far its echoes roll away 
 
 Into eternity." 
 
 Brave thoughts of noble deeds, and glory toon 
 Like angels, beckon ye to venture on. 
 
 Frances Kemble Butler. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 1 
 
 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that It may be dis- 
 played because of the truth. Psalms 60 : 4. 
 
 Onion anH t&e DI& 
 
 (Extract from speech to soldiers of the 148th Ohio Regi- 
 ment, August 31, 1864.) 
 
 I understand that it has been your honorable privilege to stand 
 for a brief period in the defense of your country, and that now 
 you are on your way to your homes. I congratulate you, and 
 those who are waiting to bid you welcome home from the war, 
 and permit me in the name of the people to thank you for the 
 part you have taken in this struggle for the life of the Nation. 
 Whenever I appear before a body of soldiers, I feel tempted to 
 talk to them of the nature of the struggle in which we are en- 
 gaged. I look upon it as an attempt on the one hand to over- 
 whelm and destroy the National existence, while on our part we 
 are striving to maintain the Government and institutions of our 
 fathers, to ejoy them ourselves, and transmit them to our chil- 
 dren and our children's children forever. . . . This Government 
 must be preserved, in spite of the acts of any man or set of men. 
 It is worthy of your every effort. Nowhere in the world is pre- 
 sented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the 
 humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privi- 
 leges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White 
 House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there 
 was for my father's. I admonish you not to be turned from your 
 stern purpose of defending our beloved country and its free insti- 
 tutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, 
 but stand fast to the Union and the old flag. 
 
 Thus beneath the one broad banner, 
 Flag of the true, the brave, the free, 
 
 We vyill build anew the Union, 
 Fortress of our liberty. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 2 
 
 And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I 
 make up my jewels. Malachl 3 : 17. 
 
 &n Inestimable 
 
 (To an Ohio Regiment, in September, 1864.) 
 
 It is not merely for the day, but for all time to come that we 
 should perpetuate for our children's children that great and free 
 Government which we have enjoyed all our lives. I beg you to 
 remember this, not merely for my sake, but for yours. I happen, 
 temporarily, to occupy this big White House. I am a living wit- 
 ness that any one of your children may look to come here as my 
 father's child has. It is in order that each one of you may have, 
 through this free Government which we have enjoyed, an open 
 field and a fair chance for your industry, enterprise, and intelli- 
 gence; that you may all have equal privileges in the race of life, 
 with all its desirable human aspirations it is for this that the 
 struggle should be maintained, that we may not lose our birth 
 rights, not only for one, but for two or three years, if necessary. 
 The nation is worth fighting for to secure such an inestimable 
 jewel. 
 
 From germs like these have mighty statesmen sprung, 
 Of prudent counsel and persuasive tongue; 
 Unblenching minds, who ruled the willing throng, 
 Their well-braced nerves by early labor strung. 
 
 Mrs. Sigourney. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 3 
 
 O give thanks unto the Lord ; call upon his name ; make known his 
 deeds among the people. Psalms 105 : 1. 
 
 (glorious &cf)iebenunl0, 
 
 (Call for Thanksgiving, issued September 3, 1864.) 
 
 The signal success that Divine Providence has recently vouch- 
 safed to the operations of the United States army and navy in the 
 harbor of Mobile, and the reduction of Forts Powell, Gaines, and 
 Morgan, and the glorious achievements of the army under Major- 
 General Sherman in the State of Georgia, resulting in the capture 
 of the city of Atlanta, call for devout acknowledgements to the 
 Supreme Being in whose hands are the destinies of nations. It 
 is therefore requested that on next Sunday, in all places of public 
 worship in the United States, thanksgiving be offered to Him for 
 his mercy in preserving our National existence against the insur- 
 gent rebels who so long have been waging a cruel war against the 
 Government of the United States for its overthrow, and also that 
 prayers be made for the Divine protection to our brave soldiers 
 and their gallant leaders in the field, who have so often and so 
 gallantly periled their lives in battling with the enemy, and for 
 blessings and comforts from the Father of mercies to the sick 
 and wounded and prisoners, and to the orphans and widows of 
 those who have fallen in the service of their country, and that he 
 will continue to uphold the Government of the United States 
 against all the efforts of public enemies and secret foes. 
 
 Lord! while for all mankind we pray 
 
 Of every clime and coast, 
 Oh, hear us for our native land 
 
 The land we love the most. 
 Unite us in the sacred love 
 
 Of knowledge, truth, and thee, 
 And let our hills and valleys shout 
 
 The songs of liberty. 
 
 J. R. Wreford. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 4 
 
 Every purpose of the Lord shall be performed. Jeremiah 51 : 29. 
 
 of 
 
 (Letter written September 4, 1864, to Mrs. Eliza B. Gur- 
 ney, wife of an eminent English minister of the Society of 
 Friends.) 
 
 I have not forgotten, probably never shall forget the very im- 
 pressive occasion when yourself and friends visited me on a Sab- 
 bath forenoon, two years ago; nor has your kind letter, written 
 nearly a year later, ever been forgotten. In all it has been your 
 purpose to strengthen my reliance upon God. I am much indebted 
 to the good Christian people of the country for their constant 
 prayers and consolations, and to no one of them more than to 
 yourself. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect and must pre- 
 vail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive 
 them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this ter- 
 rible war long before this, but God knows best and has ruled 
 otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge his wisdom and our own 
 errors therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best 
 light he gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the 
 great end he ordains. Surely he intends some great good to fol- 
 low this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make and no 
 mortal could stay. Your people, the Friends, have had and are 
 having very great trials on principles and faith. Opposed to both 
 war and oppression, they can only practically oppose oppression 
 by war. In this hard dilemma some have chosen one horn and 
 some the other. For those appealing to me on conscientious 
 grounds, I have done and shall do the best I could and can, in 
 my own conscience, under my oath to the law. That you believe 
 this I doubt not, and, believing it, I shall still receive for our 
 country and myself your earnest prayers to our Father in heaven. 
 
 His purposes will ripen fast, 
 
 Unfolding every hour; 
 The i>ud man hare a bitter taste, 
 But sweet will be the flotcer. 
 
 Coicper. 
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 SEPTEMBER 5 (Labor Day) 
 
 The sleep of the labouring man is sweet, . . . but the abundance of 
 the rich will not suffer him to sleep. Ecclesiastes 5:12. 
 
 Ea&or iss tfje Superior of Capital. 
 
 (From his first annual message to Congress, December 3, 
 1861.) 
 
 Labor is prior to and independent of capital; capital is only the 
 fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first 
 existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the 
 higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy 
 of protection as any other rights; nor is it denied that there is, 
 and probably always will be a relation between labor and capital 
 producing mutual benefits. 
 
 A song for the builders of beauty, 
 
 The rearers of temple and spire; 
 A song to the strong men of duty, 
 
 Who shape the world's future in flre. 
 
 Sing, sing to the women, the mothers, 
 
 The weavers of life and of fate; 
 The sisters who toil for the brothers, 
 
 And open to hope the white gate. 
 
 A song to the brain that devises, 
 And bend's Nature's will into law; 
 
 A song to the brain that suffices 
 Its purpose from many to draw. 
 
 King, sing, to the thinkers and hewers 
 To brothers of brain and of brawn; 
 
 A song to the world's mighty doers 
 Who work for a hastening dawn. 
 
 Horace Spencer Fiske. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 6 
 
 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of 
 their treasures. Isaiah 2 : 7. 
 
 to tfie 
 
 (To Honorable Schuyler Coif ax, on the fatal 14th of April, 
 1865, the day of the assassination. Mr. Colfax was about 
 starting to the far-off western country.) 
 
 Mr. Colfax, I want you to take a message from me to the miners 
 whom you visit. I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of 
 our Nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible. It abounds all 
 over the Western country from the Rocky Mountains to the 
 Pacific, and its developement has scarcely commenced. During 
 the war, when we were adding a couple of millions of dollars 
 every day to our National debt, I did not care about encouraging 
 the increase in the volume of our precious metals. We had the 
 country to save first. But now that the Rebellion is overthrown, 
 and we know pretty nearly the amount of our National debt, the 
 more gold and silver we mine makes the payment of that debt 
 so much the easier. Now I am going to encourage that in every 
 possible way. We shall have hundreds of thousands of disbanded 
 soldiers, and many have feared that their return home in such 
 great numbers might paralyze industry by furnishing suddenly 
 a greater supply of labor than there will be a demand for. I am 
 going to try to attract them to the hidden wealth of our moun- 
 tain ranges, where there is room enough for all. . . . Tell the 
 miners for me that I shall promote their interests to the utmost 
 of my ability, because their prosperity is the prosperity of the 
 Nation; and we shall prove, in a very few years, that we are 
 indeed the treasury of the world. 
 
 The mountain air is cool and fresh, 
 
 Unclouded skies bend o'er us, 
 Broad placers, rich in hidden gold, 
 
 Lie temptingly before us; 
 We ask no magic Midas' wand, 
 
 Nor wizard-rod divining, 
 The pickaxe, spade, and brawny hand 
 
 Are sorcerers in mining. 
 
 John Swift. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 7 
 
 It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father 
 hath put in his own power. Acts 1 : 7. 
 
 Jt CCiill >ccur in C5o&'0 jSDton C5ood 
 
 (Extract from speech in fourth joint debate with Mr. 
 Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858.) 
 
 I say, then, there is no way of putting an end to the slavery 
 agitation amongst us but to put it back upon the basis where our 
 fathers placed it, no way but to keep it out of our new Territories 
 to restrict it forever to the old States where it now exists. 
 Then the public mind will rest in the belief that it is in the 
 course of ultimate extinction. That is one way of putting an end 
 to the slavery agitation. The other way is for us to surrender 
 and let Judge Douglas and his friends have their way and plant 
 slavery all over the States cease speaking of it as in any way a 
 wrong regard slavery as one of the common matters of prop- 
 erty, and speak of negroes as we do of our horses and cattle. But 
 while it drives on in its state of progress as it is now driving, 
 and as it has driven for the last five years, I have ventured the 
 opinion, and I say to-day that we will have no end to the slavery 
 agitation until it takes one turn or the other. I do not mean that 
 when it takes a turn toward ultimate extinction it will be in a 
 day, nor in a year, nor in two years. I do not suppose that in the 
 most peaceful way ultimate extinction would occur in less than a 
 hundred years at least; but that it will occur in the best way for 
 both races, in God's own good time, I have no doubt. 
 
 F'vr right is right, since God is God, 
 
 And right the day must win; 
 To doubt would ~be disloyalty, 
 
 To falter would be sin. 
 
 F. W. Faber. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 8 
 
 There Is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and It is common 
 among men. Ecclesiastes 6 : 1. 
 
 &t)0ttact S^oral Question, 
 
 (Extract from speech In fifth joint debate with Mr. Doug- 
 las, at Galesburg, Illinois, October 7, 1858.) 
 
 I have said that in their right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit 
 of happiness," as proclaimed in that old Declaration, the inferior 
 races are our equals. And these declarations I have constantly 
 made in reference to the abstract moral question, to contemplate 
 and consider when we are legislating about any new country 
 which is not already cursed with the actual presence of the evil 
 slavery. I have never manifested any impatience with the neces- 
 sities that spring from the black people amongst us, and the actual 
 existence of slavery amongst us where it does already exist; but 
 I have insisted that, in legislating for new countries, where it 
 does not exist, there is no just rule other than that of moral and 
 abstract right! With reference to those new countries, those 
 maxims as to the right of a people to "life, liberty, and the pur- 
 suit of happiness," were the just rules to be constantly referred 
 to. There is no misunderstanding this, except by men interested 
 to misunderstand it. I take it that I have to address an intelli- 
 gent and reading community, who will peruse what I say, weigh 
 it, and then judge whether I advance improper or unsound views, 
 or whether I advance hypocritical and deceptive and contrary 
 views in different portions of the country. I believe myself to be 
 guilty of no such things as the latter, though, of course, I cannot 
 claim that I am entirely free from all error in the opinions I 
 advance. 
 
 Prayer-strengthened for the trial, come together, 
 
 Put on the harness for the moral fight, 
 And with the blessings of your Heavenly Father, 
 Maintain the Right. 
 
 Whit tier. 
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 SEPTEMBER 9 
 
 Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls? Jeremiah 44 : 7. 
 
 & S^oral, feudal, and Political 
 
 (Extract from speech in fifth joint debate with Mr. Doug- 
 las at Galesburg, Illinois, October 7, 1858. Continued from 
 preceding page.) 
 
 From this difference of sentiment the belief on the part of 
 one that the institution is wrong, and a policy springing from 
 that belief which looks to the arrest of the enlargement of that 
 wrong; and this other sentiment, that it is no wrong, and a policy 
 sprung from that sentiment which will tolerate no idea of pre- 
 venting that wrong from growing larger, and looks to there never 
 being an end of it through all the existence of things arises the 
 real difference between Judge Douglas and his friends on the one 
 hand, and the Republicans on the other. Now, I confess myself 
 as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery 
 as a moral, social, and political evil, having due regard for its 
 actual presence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it 
 in any satisfactory way, and to all the Constitutional obligations 
 which have been thrown about it, but nevertheless, desire a 
 policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and look 
 hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end. 
 
 Oh! speed the moment on 
 
 When Wrong shall cease and Liberty and Love, 
 And Truth and Right, throughout the earth be known 
 
 As in their home above. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 10 
 
 Let us play the men for our people. II. Samuel 10 : 12. 
 
 of a 2Drama. 
 
 (Extracts from speech In sixth joint debate with Mr. 
 Douglas, at Quincy, Illinois, October 13, 1858.) 
 
 He reminds me of the fact that he entered upon this canvass 
 with the purpose to treat me courteously; that touched me some- 
 what. It sets me to thinking. I was aware, when it was first 
 agreed that Judge Douglas and I were to have these seven joint 
 discussions that they were the successive acts of a drama per- 
 haps I should say, to be enacted not merely in the face of audi- 
 ences like this, but in the face of the Nation, and, to some extent, 
 be my relation to him, and not from anything in myself, in the 
 face of the world; and I am anxious that they should be con- 
 ducted with dignity and in the good temper which would be 
 befitting the vast audience before which it was conducted. 
 
 All the world 's a stage, 
 And all the men and women merely players: 
 They have their exits and their entrances, 
 And one man in his time plays many parts, 
 His acts being seven ages. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 11 
 
 Perilous times shall come. II. Timothy 3 : 1. 
 
 Si SDanfferoug (Clement. 
 
 (From a speech in the sixth joint debate with Mr. Doug- 
 las, at Quincy, Illinois, October 13, 1858. Continued from 
 preceding page.) 
 
 We have in this Nation this element of domestic slavery. It is 
 a matter of absolute certainty that it is a disturbing element. It 
 is the opinion of all the great men who have expressed an opinion 
 upon it, that it is a dangerous element. We keep up a contro- 
 versy in regard to it. The controversy necessarily springs from 
 differences of opinion, and if we can learn exactly can reduce to 
 the lowest elements what that difference of opinion is, we per- 
 haps shall be better prepared for discussing the different systems 
 of policy that we would propose in regard to the disturbing ele- 
 ment. I suggest that the difference of opinion, reduced to its low- 
 est terms, is no other than the difference between the men who 
 think slavery is a wrong and those who do not think it wrong. 
 The Republican party think it wrong we think it is a moral, a 
 social", and a political wrong. We think it is a wrong not confin- 
 ing itself merely to the persons or the States where it exists, but 
 that it is a wrong in its tendency, to say the least, that extends 
 itself to the existence of the whole Nation. Because we think it 
 wrong, we propose a course of policy that shall deal with it as a 
 wrong. We deal with it as any other wrong, in so far as we can 
 prevent it growing any larger, and so deal with it that in the run 
 of time there may be some promise of an end to it. 
 
 And what is this splendor that dazzles the sight, 
 Of what are the minion* of tyranny proudf 
 
 'T is a gleam but that deepens the horrors of night 
 'T is a lightning that flashes from slavery's cloud. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 12 
 
 Keep thee far from a false matter. Exodus 23 : 7. 
 
 Si jFatee &0gumptfon. 
 
 (Extract from speech in sixth joint debate with Mr. Doug- 
 las, at Quincy, Illinois, October 13, 1858. Continued from 
 preceding page.) 
 
 Judge Douglas asks of you, "Why cannot the institution of 
 slavery, or rather, why cannot the Nation, part slave and part 
 free, continue as our fathers made it, forever?" In the first place, 
 I insist that our fathers did not make this Nation half slave and 
 half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the 
 institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but 
 they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that 
 time. When Judge Douglas undertakes to say that, as a matter 
 of choice, the fathers of the Government made this Nation part 
 slave and part free, he assumes what is historically a fasehood. 
 More than that: when the fathers of the Government cut off the 
 source of slavery by the abolition of the slave trade, and adopted 
 a system of restricting it from the new Territories where it had 
 not existed, I maintain that they placed it where they understood, 
 and all sensible men understood it was in the course of ultimate 
 extinction; and when Judge Douglas asks me why it cannot con- 
 tinue as our fathers made it, I ask him why he and his friends 
 cannot let it remain where our fathers made it. 
 
 The sages say, Dame Truth delights to dwell 
 Strange mansion! in the bottom of a well. 
 Questions are, then, the icindlass and the rope 
 That pull the grave old gentlewoman up. 
 
 Peter Pindar. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 SEPTEMBER 13 
 
 Teach me to do thy will ; for thou art my God. Psalms 143 : 10. 
 
 (In response to a delegation from the religious denomina- 
 tions of Chicago, presenting a memorial for the Immediate 
 issue of an emancipation proclamation, September 13, 1862.) 
 
 The subject presented in the memorial is one upon which I 
 have thought much for weeks past, and I may even say for 
 months. I am approached by the most opposite opinions and 
 advice, and that by religous men who are equally certain that 
 they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or 
 the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps, in some 
 respects, both. I hope it will not be irreverent for me to say that 
 if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a 
 point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would 
 reveal it directly to me; for, unless I am more deceived in myself 
 than I often am, it is my earnest desire to know the will of Provi- 
 dence in this matter, and if I can learn what it is, I will do it. 
 These are not, however, the days of miracles, and I suppose it 
 will be granted that I am not to expect a direct revelation. I 
 must study the plain physical facts of the case, ascertain what is 
 possible, and learn what appears to be wise and right. 
 
 But at last we learn the lesson 
 
 That God knoweth what is best; 
 For with wisdom cometh patience, 
 
 And with patience cometh rest. 
 Yea, a golden thread is shining 
 
 Through the tangled woof of fate; 
 And our hearts shall thank him meekly 
 
 That he taught us how to wait. 
 
 Armstrong. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 14 
 
 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the 
 heaven. Ecclesiastes 3 : 1. 
 
 Sin JJnoperatfbe SDocument, 
 
 (In response to a delegation from the religious denomina- 
 tions of Chicago, presenting a memorial for the immediate 
 issue of an emancipation proclamation, September 13, 1862. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 You know that the last session of Congress had a decided 
 majority of anti-slavery men, yet they could not unite on this 
 policy. And the same is true of the religious people. Why, the 
 rebel soldiers are praying with a good deal more earnestness, I 
 fear, than our own troops, and expecting God to favor their side. 
 . . . What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me 
 do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a 
 document that the whole world will see must necessarily be 
 inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet. Would my 
 word free the slaves when I cannot even enforce the Constitution 
 in the rebel States? Is there a single court or magistrate or indi- 
 vidual that would be influenced by it there? 
 
 Under the storm and the cloud to-day, 
 And to-day the hard peril and pain 
 
 To-morrow the stone shall be rolled away, 
 For the sunshine shall folloio the rain. 
 
 Merciful Father, I will not complain, 
 
 I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain. 
 
 Joaquin Miller. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 15 
 
 Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of 
 the hand of the oppressor. Jeremiah 22 : 3. 
 
 practical Ofllat 99ra0ttrr . 
 
 (In response to a delegation from the religious denomina- 
 tions of Chicago, presenting a memorial for the immediate 
 issue of an emancipation proclamation, September 13, 1862. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 Understand, I raise no objections against it on legal or constitu- 
 tional grounds, for, as commander-in-chief of the army and navy, 
 in time of war I suppose I have a right to take any measure 
 which may best subdue the enemy; nor do I desire objections of 
 a moral nature, in view of possible consequences of insurrection 
 and massacre at the South. I view this matter as a practical war 
 measure, to be decided on according to the advantages or dis- 
 advantages it may offer to the suppression of the rebellion. I 
 admit that slavery is at the root of the rebellion, or at least its 
 sine qua non. The ambition of politicians may have instigated 
 them to act, but they would have been impotent without slavery 
 as their instrument. 
 
 Lo ! a cloud 's about to vanish 
 
 From the day; 
 And a brazen wrong to crumble 
 
 Into clay. 
 Lo ! the right 'a about to conquer; 
 
 Clear the way! 
 
 With the Right shall many more 
 Enter smiling at the door; 
 With the giant Wrong shall fall 
 Many others, great and small, 
 That for ages long have held us 
 
 For their prey. 
 Men of thought and action, 
 
 Clear the way! 
 
 Charles Mackay. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 16 
 
 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the 
 Lord is. Ephesians 5 : 17. 
 
 a Juntiamtntal Itoea. 
 
 (In response to a delegation from the religious denomina- 
 tions of Chicago, presenting a memorial for the immediate 
 issue of an emancipation proclamation, September 13, 1862. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 Let me say one thing more: I think you should admit that we 
 already have an important principle to rally to and unite the 
 people; in fact, that Constitutional government is at stake. This 
 is a fundamental idea going down about as deep as anything. Do 
 not misunderstand me because I have mentioned these objections. 
 They indicate the difficulties that have thus far prevented my 
 action in some such way as you desire. I have not decided against 
 a proclamation of liberty to the slaves, but hold the matter under 
 advisement. And I can assure you that the subject is on my 
 mind, by day and night, more than any other. Whatever shall 
 appear to be God's will I will do. I trust that in the freedom with 
 which I have canvassed your views I have not in any respect 
 injured your feelings. 
 
 There is a spirit working in the world, 
 
 Like to a silent, subterranean fire, 
 Yet ever and anon some monarch hurl'd, 
 
 Aghast and pale, attests its fearful ire: 
 The dungeon'd nations now once more respire 
 
 The keen and stirring air of liberty. 
 
 George Hill. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 17 
 
 And the common people heard him gladly. Mark 12 : 37. 
 
 SDon't &!joot too 
 
 (Advice to a young lawyer.) 
 
 Billy, don't shoot too high aim lower and the common people 
 will understand you. They are the ones you want to reach at 
 least, they are the ones you ought to reach. The educated and 
 refined people will understand you, anyway. If you aim too high 
 your idea will go over the heads of the masses and only hit those 
 who need no hitting. 
 
 What is judicious eloquence to those 
 
 Whose speech not up to others' reason grows, 
 
 But climbs aloft to their own passion's height f 
 
 And as our seamen make no use of sight 
 
 By anything observed in wide, strange seas, 
 
 But only of the length of voyages; 
 
 Or else, as men in races make no stay 
 
 To draw large prospects of their breath away, 
 
 So they, in heedless races of the tongue, 
 
 Care not how broad their theme is, but how long. 
 
 Davenant. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 18 
 
 Lift up thy voice with strength ; lift it up, be not afraid. Isaiah 40 : 9. 
 
 &&ooting Dbf r t&e Hint. 
 
 (Extract from a speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 
 17, 1859, in answer to Mr. Douglas's charge of Mr. Lincoln's 
 desire to disturb slavery in the Southern States by "shoot- 
 ing over the line.") 
 
 It has occurred to me here to-night that if I ever do shoot over 
 at the people on the other side of the line in the slave States, and 
 purpose to do so, keeping my skin safe, that I have now about 
 the best chance I shall ever have. I should not wonder if there 
 are some Kentuckians about this audience; we are close to Ken- 
 tucky; and whether that be so or not, we are on elevated ground, 
 and by speaking distinctly I should not wonder if some of the 
 Kentuckians would hear me on the other side of the river; for 
 that reason I propose to address a portion of what I have to say 
 to the Kentuckians. I say, then, in the first place, to the Ken- 
 tuckians, that I am what they call, as I understand it, a "Black 
 Republican." I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially, 
 and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in 
 these United States, and I should not object if it would gradually 
 terminate in the whole Union. While I say this for myself, I say 
 to you, Kentuckians, that I understand that you differ radically 
 with me upon this proposition; that you believe slavery is a good 
 thing; that slavery is right; that it ought to be extended and per- 
 petuated in this Union. 
 
 On Ms bold visage, middle age 
 Had slightly pressed its signet sage, 
 Yet had not quenched the open truth 
 And fiery vehemence of youth: 
 Forward and frolic glee was there, 
 The will to do, the soul to dare. 
 
 Scott. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 19 
 
 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your 
 daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one 
 people. Genesis 34 : 16. 
 
 flflle 3ian to SDo. 
 
 (Extract from a speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 
 17, 1859, alluding to the triumph of Mr. Lincoln's party 
 Addressing the Kentuckians. Continued from preceding 
 page.) 
 
 I will tell you, as far as I am authorized to speak for the oppo- 
 sition, what we mean to do with you. We mean to treat you, as 
 nearly as we possibly can, as Washington, Jefferson, and Madison 
 treated you. We mean to leave you alone, and in no way to inter- 
 fere with your institution; to abide by all and every compromise 
 of the Constitution, and, in a word, coming back to the original 
 proposition, to treat you, so far as degenerated men (if we have 
 degenerated) may, imitating the example of those noble fathers 
 Washington, Jefferson, and Madison. We mean to remember that 
 you are as good as we are; that there is no difference between us 
 other than the difference in circumstances. We mean to recog- 
 nize and bear in mind that you have as good hearts in your 
 bosoms as other people, or as we claim to have, and treat you 
 accordingly. We mean to marry your girls when we have a 
 chance the white ones, I mean and I have the honor to inform 
 you that I once did get a chance in that way. 
 
 We will renew the times of truth and justice, 
 Condensing in a fair free commonwealth 
 Not rash equality, 'but equal rights, 
 Proportioned like the columns of the temple, 
 Giving and taking strength reciprocal, 
 And making firm the whole with grace and beauty, 
 So that no part could be removed without 
 Infringement of the general symmetry. 
 
 Byron. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 20 
 
 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, 
 A confederacy. Isaiah 8 : 12. 
 
 2D0 gou S^ean to 2Do? 
 
 (Extract from a speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 
 17, 1859. Addressed to the Kentuckians. Continued from 
 preceding page.) 
 
 I have told you what we mean to do. I want to know, now, 
 when that thing takes place, what you mean to do. I often hear 
 it intimated that you mean to divide the Union whenever a Re- 
 publican, or anything like it, is elected President of the United 
 States. Well, I want to know what you are going to do with your 
 half of it. Are you going to split the Ohio down through, and 
 push your half off a piece? or are you going to keep it right 
 alongside of us outrageous fellows? or are you going to build up 
 a wall some way between your country and ours, by which that 
 movable property of yours can't come over here any more, and 
 you lose it? Do you think you can better yourselves on that sub- 
 ject by leaving us here under no obligation whatever to return 
 those specimens of your movable property that come hither? 
 
 Southrons! hear your country call you! 
 Up! lest worse than death befall you! 
 
 To arms ! To arms ! To arms in Di&ie ! 
 Lo ! all the 'beacon-fires are lighted 
 Let all hearts 'be now united! 
 
 To arms! To arms! To arms in Dixie! 
 Advance the flag of Dix-iel 
 
 Hurrah ! hurrah ! 
 
 To Dixie's land we take our stand, 
 And live or die for Dixie! 
 
 General Albert Pike. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 21 
 
 Do nothing rashly. Acts 19 : 36. 
 
 Sou arc inferior in Dumber*. 
 
 (Extract from a speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, Septpmber 
 17, 1859. Addressed to Kentuckians. Continued from pre- 
 ceding page.) 
 
 You have divided the Union because we would not do right with 
 you, as you think, upon that subject; when we cease to be under 
 obligations to do anything for you, how much better off do you 
 think you will be? Will you make war upon us and kill us all? 
 Why, gentlemen, I think you are as gallant and as brave men as 
 live; that you can fight as bravely in a good cause, man for man, 
 as any other people living; that you have shown yourselves 
 capable of this upon various occasions ; but, man for man, you are 
 not better than we are, and there are not so many of you as there 
 are of us. You will never make much of a hand at whipping us. 
 If we were fewer in numbers than you, I think that you could 
 whip us; if we were equal, it would likely be a drawn battle; but, 
 being inferior in numbers, you will make nothing by attempting 
 to master us. 
 
 To broach a ivar, and not to be assured 
 Of certain means to make a fair defense, 
 Howe'er the ground be just, may justly seem 
 A wilful madness. 
 
 Hemmings. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 22 
 
 Woe unto him that . . . useth his neighbour's service without wages. 
 Jeremiah 22 : 13. 
 
 (Extract from a speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 
 17, 1859. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 I say that we must not interfere with the institution of slavery 
 in the States where it exists, because the Constitution forbids it, 
 and the general welfare does not require us to do so. We must 
 not withhold an efficient fugitive slave law, because the Constitu- 
 tion requires us, as I understand it, not to withhold such a law; 
 but we must prevent the outspreading of the institution, because 
 neither the Constitution nor the general welfare requires us to 
 extend it. We must prevent the revival of the African slave-trade 
 and the enacting by Congress of a territorial slave code. We 
 must prevent each of these things being done by either Congress 
 or Courts. The people of these United States are the rightful 
 masters of both Congress and Courts, not to overthrow the Con- 
 stitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. 
 
 Oppression shall not always reign, 
 
 There comes a brighter day, 
 When freedom, burst from every chain, 
 
 Shall have triumphant sway. 
 
 Ware. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 23 
 
 I determined this with myself. II. Corinthians 2 : 1. 
 
 3 $2a&e Dettrmiiub for 
 
 (Part of the remarks at a Cabinet meeting, September 
 22, 1862, concerning the Emancipation Proclamation.) 
 
 Gentlemen, I have, as you are aware, thought a great deal about 
 the relation of this war to slavery, and you all remember that 
 several weeks ago I read to you an order that I had prepared 
 upon the subject, which, on account of objections made by some 
 of you, was not issued. Ever since then my mind has been much 
 occupied with this subject, and I have thought all along that the 
 time for acting upon it might probably come. I have got you 
 together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your 
 advice about the main matter, for that I have determined for my- 
 self. This I say without intending anything but respect for any 
 one of you. But I already know the views of each on this ques- 
 tion. They have been heretofore expressed, and I have considered 
 them as thoroughly and carefully as I can. What I have written 
 is that which my reflections have determined me to say. If there 
 is anything in the expressions I use, or in any minor matter, 
 which any one of you thinks had best be changed, I shall be glad 
 to receive your suggestions. 
 
 He knows the compass, sail, and oar, 
 Or never launches from the shore; 
 Before he builds, computes the cost, 
 And- in no proud pursuit is lost. 
 
 Gay. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 24 
 
 Let every man prove bis own work. Galatians 6 : 4. 
 
 2Do t5* B*0t 3 Can. 
 
 (Remarks at Cabinet meeting, September 22, 1862, con- 
 cerning the Emancipation Proclamation. Continued from 
 preceding page.) 
 
 One other observation I will make. I know very well that 
 many others might, in this matter as in others, do better than I 
 can; and if I were satisfied that the public confidence was more 
 fully possessed by any one of them than by me, and knew of any 
 Constitutional way in which he could be put in my place, he 
 should have it. I would gladly yield to him. But though I 
 believe I have not so much of the confidence of the people as I 
 had some time since, I do not know that, all things considered, 
 any other person has more; and, however this may be, there is no 
 way in which I can have any other man put where I am. I am 
 here, and I must do the best I can, and bear the responsibility of 
 taking the course which I feel that I ought to take. 
 
 Abraham, spare the South, 
 
 Touch not a single slave; 
 Nor e'en by word of mouth 
 
 Disturb the thing we crave. 
 'T was our forefathers' hand 
 
 That slavery begot; 
 There, Abraham, let it stand; 
 
 Thine acts shall harm it not. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 25 
 
 Done right 'n my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neigh- 
 bour. Jeremiah 34:15. 
 
 and jForefctr jfm. 
 
 (Extract from the provisional Emancipation Proclama- 
 tion, issued September 22, 1862.) 
 
 On the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thou- 
 sand and eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves 
 within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof 
 shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, 
 henceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government 
 of the United States, including the military and naval authority 
 thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, 
 and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, 
 in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. The 
 Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by procla- 
 mation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which 
 the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against 
 the United States. 
 
 Once tattle fires for independence shone, 
 The rights of man to all the ivorld made known; 
 Henceforth a Nation, strong thro' liberty, 
 In tins auspicious hour, long live America/ 
 Thy conscience rose 'gainst slav'ry in thy States, 
 Till Lincoln freed the black man in thy gates; 
 Henceforth the friend of human kind to be, 
 Long live, long live America! 
 
 Bishop W. M. Bell. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 SEPTEMBER 26 
 
 He was a faithful man. Nehemiah 7 : 2. 
 
 of 
 
 (Letter to Honorable Montgomery Blair, Postmaster-Gen- 
 eral, requesting his resignation as a member of the Cabinet, 
 September 23, 1864.) 
 
 You have generously said to me, more than once, that when- 
 ever your resignation could be a relief to me, it was at my dis- 
 posal. The time has come. You very well know that this pro- 
 ceeds from no dissatisfaction of mine with you personally or 
 officially. Your uniform kindness has been unsurpassed by that 
 of any friend, and while it is true that the war does not so greatly 
 add to the difficulties of your department as it does to some 
 others, it is yet much to say, as I most truly can, that in three 
 years and a half, during which you have administered the General 
 Post-Office, I remember no single complaint against you in con- 
 nection therewith. 
 
 Friendship is the cement of two minds, 
 As of one mem the soul and body is; 
 Of -which one cannot sever but the other 
 Suffers a needful separation. 
 
 Chapman. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 27 
 
 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. Psalms 37 : 23. 
 
 &olnnn &en0e of 
 
 (Extract from a speech at a serenade, September 24, 1862.) 
 
 I have not been distinctly informed why it is on this occasion 
 you appear to do me this honor, though I suppose it is because of 
 the proclamation. What I did, I did after very full deliberation 
 and under a very heavy and solemn sense of responsibility. I can 
 only trust in God I have made no mistake. I shall make no 
 attempt on this occasion to sustain what I have done or said by 
 any comment. It is now for the country and the world to pass 
 judgment upon it, and, may be, take action upon it. I will say no 
 more upon this subject. In my position I am environed with 
 difficulties. Yet they are scarcely so great as the difficulties of 
 those who, upon the battle-field, are endeavoring to purchase with 
 their blood and their lives the future happiness and prosperity of 
 the country. Let us not forget them. 
 
 Our children shall behold Ms fame, 
 
 The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, 
 
 Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, 
 New birth of our new soil, the first American. 
 
 Lowell. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 28 
 
 Relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Isaiah 
 1 : 17. 
 
 and 
 
 (Letter written in September, 1857, to Mrs. Hannah Arm- 
 strong, whose son had been arrested for murder.) 
 
 I have just heard of your deep affliction, and the arrest of your 
 son for murder. I can hardly believe that he is guilty of the 
 crime alleged against him. It does not seem possible. I am 
 anxious that he should have a fair trial, at any rate; and grati- 
 tude for your long-continued kindness to me in adverse circum- 
 stances prompts me to offer my humble services gratuitously in 
 his behalf. It will afford me an opportunity to requite, in a small 
 degree, the favors I received at your hand, and that of your 
 lamented husband, when your roof afforded me grateful shelter, 
 without money and without price. 
 
 There are loyal Hearts, there are spirits brave, 
 There are souls that are pure and true; 
 
 Then give to the world the test you have, 
 And the test shall come back to you. 
 
 Give love, and love to your heart will 'flow, 
 
 A strength in your utmost need; 
 Have faith, and a score of hearts will show 
 
 Their faith in your word and deed. 
 
 Madeline 8. Bridges. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 20 
 
 He reasoned of ... temperance. Acts 24 : 25. 
 
 3 S^alie temperance &peec|je0. 
 
 (In response to an address from the Sons of Temperance 
 in Washington, on the 29th of September, 1863.) 
 
 If I were better known than I am, you would not need to be told 
 that in advocacy of the cause of temperance you have a friend 
 and sympathizer in me. When a young man long ago before 
 the Sons of Temperance, as an organization, had an existence, I, 
 in a humble way, made temperance speeches, and I think I may 
 say that to this day I have never, by my example, belied what I 
 then said. ... I think the reasonable men of the world have 
 long since agreed that intemperance is one of the greatest of all 
 evils among mankind. That the disease exists, and that it is a 
 very great one, is agreed upon by all. The mode of cure is one 
 about which there may be differences of opinion. 
 
 Plant the temperance standard firmly, 
 
 Round it live, and round it die; 
 Young and old defend it sternly, 
 Till we gain the victory, 
 
 And all nations 
 Hail the happy jubilee. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 SEPTEMBER 30 
 
 I remember the days of old. Psalms 143 : 5. 
 
 $V Cf)ttt>I)o0& 
 
 (Selections from a poem written when he was thirty-five 
 years of age, on the occasion of a visit to the neighborhood 
 of his old Indiana home to make a speech In behalf of 
 Henry Clay, in 1844. The third, fourth, and fifth verses 
 are omitted.) 
 
 My childhood home I see again, 
 
 And sadden with the view; 
 And still, as memory crowds my brain, 
 
 There 's pleasure in it, too. 
 
 Memory! thou midway world 
 'Twixt earth and paradise, 
 
 Where things decayed, and loved ones lost, 
 In dreamy shadows rise! 
 
 Near twenty years have passed away 
 
 Since here I bid farewell 
 To woods and fields and scenes of play, 
 
 And playmates loved so well. 
 
 Where many were, tut -few remain, 
 
 Of old familiar things; 
 But seeing th^m to mind again 
 
 The lost and absent brings. 
 
 The friends I left that parting day, 
 
 How changed, as time has sped! 
 Young childhood grown, strong manhood gray, 
 
 And half of all are dead. 
 
 1 hear the loud survivors tell 
 
 How naught from death could save, 
 Till every sound appears a knell, 
 And every spot a grave. 
 
 I range the fields with pensive tread 
 
 And pace the hollow rooms, 
 And feel (companions of the dead) 
 
 I 'm living in the tombs. 
 
 Still o 'er those scenes my memory wakes, 
 
 And fondly broods with miser care; 
 Time but the impression deeper makes 
 As streams their channels deeper wear. 
 
 - Burns. 
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 OCTOBER 1 
 
 Execute true judgment, and show mercy. Zechariah 7 : 9. 
 
 Calmtu00, Caution, anD jrorbcarcntf, 
 
 (To General John M. Schofield, October 1, 1863.) 
 
 There is no organized military force in avowed opposition to 
 the general Government now in Missouri; and if any shall re- 
 appear, your duty in regard to it will be too plain to require 
 any special instruction. . . . Under your recent order, which I 
 have approved, you will arrest individuals and suppress assem- 
 blies or newspapers only when they may be working palpable 
 injury to the military in your charge; and in no other case will 
 you interfere with the expression of opinion in any form or allow 
 it to be interfered with violently by others. In this you have a 
 discretion to exercise with great caution, calmness, and forbear- 
 ance. ... So far as practicable, you will, by means of your mili- 
 tary force, expel guerrillas, marauders, and murderers, and all 
 who are known to harbor, aid, or abet them. But in like manner 
 you will oppress assumptions of unauthorized individuals to per- 
 form the same service, because under pretense of doing this they 
 become marauders and murderers themselves. 
 
 Circumstances must make it probable 
 Whether the cause's justice may command 
 Th' attendance of success: for an attempt 
 That 's warranted by justice cannot want 
 A prosperous end. Nabb. 
 
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 OCTOBER 2 
 
 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Luke 6 : 36. 
 
 and 
 
 (To Honorable Schuyler Coif ax, who requested the respite 
 of a son of a constituent who was sentenced to be shot.) 
 
 Some of our generals complain that I impair discipline and 
 subordination in the army by my pardons and respites, but it 
 makes me rested, after a hard day's work, if I can find some good 
 excuse for saving a man's life, and I go to bed happy as I think 
 how joyous the signing of my name will make him and his family 
 and his friends. 
 
 (On another occasion, when some one made an application 
 for pardon for a deserter.) 
 
 Did you say he was once badly wounded? Then, as the Scrip- 
 tures say that in the shedding of blood is the remission of sins, I 
 guess we will have to let him off this time. 
 
 'T is well known that while I was protector, 
 Pity was all the fault that was in me; 
 For I should melt at an offender's tears, 
 And lowly words were ransom for their fault. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
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 OCTOBER 3 
 
 Offer unto God thanksgiving. Psalms 50 : 14. 
 
 of ^anttggibmg and 
 
 (Part of Thanksgiving Proclamation issued October 3, 
 1863.) 
 
 The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with 
 the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these 
 bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to 
 forget the source from which they come, others have been added 
 which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to 
 penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insen- 
 sible to the ever watchful Providence of Almighty God. . . . 
 No human council hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked 
 out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most 
 High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath 
 nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and 
 proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully 
 acknowledged, as with one heart and voice, by the whole Amer- 
 ican people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part 
 of the United States, and also those who are at sea, and those 
 who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the 
 last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and 
 prayer to our beneficent Father, who dwelleth in the heavens. 
 
 O Father Almighty, 
 
 Our trust is in thee, 
 Thy will now exalting 
 
 Through love, law, and liberty, 
 Our voices ascending 
 
 From vale, hill, and crag, 
 In this motto blending: 
 
 "One country, one speech, one flag." 
 
 Silas O. Pratt. 
 
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 OCTOBER 4 
 
 They . . . went backward, and not forward. Jeremiah 7 : 24. 
 
 Si Eettogtati* Institution. 
 
 (Reply to Stephen A. Douglas, on the Kansas-Nebraska 
 Bill, Springfield, Illinois, October 4, 1854.) 
 
 Be not deceived. The spirit of the Revolution and the spirit of 
 Nebraska are antipodes, and the former is being rapidly dis- 
 placed by the latter. Shall we make no effort to arrest this? 
 Already the liberal party throughout the world expresses the 
 apprehension "that the one retrograde institution in America is 
 undermining the principles of progress and fatally violating the 
 noblest political system the world ever saw." This is not the 
 taunt of enemies, but the warning of friends. Is it quite safe to 
 disregard it, to disparage it? Is there no danger to liberty itself 
 in discarding the earliest practice and first precept of our ancient 
 faith? In our greedy haste to make profit of the negro, let us 
 beware lest we cancel and rend in pieces even the white man's 
 character of freedom. My distinguished friend Douglas says it is 
 an insult to the emigrants to Kansas and Nebraska to suppose 
 that they are not capable of governing themselves. We must not 
 slur over an argument of this kind because it happens to tickle 
 the ear. It must be met and answered. I admit the emigrant to 
 Kansas and Nebraska is competent to govern himself, but I deny 
 his right to govern any other person without that person's con- 
 sent. 
 
 Vice is a monster of so frightful mien 
 As to 'be hated needs 'but to be seen; 
 Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, 
 We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 
 
 Pope. 
 
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 OCTOBER 5 
 
 One whom his mother comforteth. Isaiah 66 : 13. 
 
 (Nancy Hanks Lincoln died in Spencer County, Indiana, 
 October 5, 1818, aged 35 years.) 
 
 All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother, bless- 
 ings on her memory. 
 
 I can remember her prayers, and they have always followed me. 
 They have clung to me all my life. 
 
 I promised my precious mother only a few days before she died 
 that I would never use anything intoxicating as a beverage, and 
 I consider that promise as binding to-day as it was the day I 
 made it. 
 
 Ah ! mother of as grand a son 
 
 As ever battled in the van 
 
 To prove the brotherhood of man, 
 Such lives as thine are never done. 
 
 We can out wonder, we who read 
 The past with backward searching look, 
 Its pages open as a book. 
 If thou foresaw where he icould lead. 
 
 Ben D. House. 
 
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 OCTOBER 6 
 
 Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations. Isaiah 58 : 12. 
 
 jfoundationg of jl-leto 
 
 (Extract from speech in the seventh and last joint debate 
 with Mr. Douglas, at Alton, Illinois, October 15, 1858.) 
 
 The principle upon which I have insisted in this canvass is in 
 relation to laying the foundation of new societies. I have never 
 sought to apply these principles to the old States for the purpose 
 of abolishing slavery in those States. It is nothing but a miser- 
 able perversion of what I have said, to assume that I have declared 
 Missouri, or any other slave State, shall emancipate her slaves. 
 I have proposed no such thing. But when Mr. Clay says that in 
 laying the foundations of societies in our Territories where it does 
 not exist, he would be opposed to the introduction of slavery as 
 an element, I insist that we have his warrant his license for 
 insisting upon the exclusion of that element which he declared 
 in such strong and emphatic language was most hateful to him. 
 
 Great God! we thank thee for this home 
 
 This bounteous birthland of the free; 
 Where wanderers from afar may come 
 
 And breatJie the air of liberty t 
 Still may her flowers untrampled spring, 
 
 Her harvests wave, her cities rise; 
 And yet, till Time shall fold his wing, 
 
 Remain earth's loveliest paradise. 
 
 W. J. Pabodie. 
 
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 OCTOBER 7 
 
 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave th 
 sense, and caused them to understand the reading. Nehemiah 8 : 8. 
 
 Mention of t&e MHotd "j^ffro," or " 
 
 (Extract from speech in the seventh and last joint debate 
 with Mr. Douglas at Alton, Illinois, October 15, 1858. Con- 
 tinued from preceding page.) 
 
 There is no mention of the word "negro," or "slavery." In all 
 three of these places, being the only allusions to slavery in the 
 instrument, covert language is used. Language is used not sug- 
 gesting that slavery or that the black race were among us. And 
 I understand the contemporaneous history of those times to be 
 that covert language was used with a purpose, and that purpose 
 was that in our Constitution, which it was hoped and is still 
 hoped will endure forever when it should be read by intelligent 
 and patriotic men, after the institution of slavery has passed 
 from among us there should be nothing on the face of the great 
 charter of liberty suggesting that such a thing as negro slavery 
 had ever existed among us. This is part of the evidence that the 
 fathers of the Government expected and intended the institution 
 of slavery to come to an end. 
 
 If we retain the glory of our ancestors, 
 Whose ashes will rise up against our dullness, 
 Shake off our tameness, and give way to courage, 
 We need not doubt, inspired with a just rage, 
 To break the necks of those that would yoke ours. 
 
 Tatham. 
 
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 OCTOBER 8 
 
 There are contentions among you. I. Corinthians 1 : 11. 
 
 Parallel. 
 
 (Extract from speech in the seventh and last joint debate 
 with Mr. Douglas, at Alton, Illinois, October 15, 1858. Con- 
 tinued from preceding page.) 
 
 But when I have admitted all this, I ask if there is any parallel 
 between these things and this institution of slavery? I do not 
 see that there is any parallel at all between them. Consider it. 
 When have we had any difficulty or quarrel amongst ourselves 
 about the cranberry laws of Indiana, or the oyster laws of Vir- 
 ginia, or the pine-lumber laws of Maine, or the fact that Louisiana 
 produces sugar, and Illinois flour? When have we had any quar- 
 rel over these things? When have we had perfect peace in regard 
 to this thing which I say is an element of discord in this Union? 
 We have sometimes had peace, but when was it? It was when the 
 institution of slavery remained quiet where it was. We have had 
 difficulty and turmoil whenever it has made a struggle to spread 
 itself where it was not. I ask, then, if experience does not speak 
 in thunder tones, telling us that the policy which has given peace 
 to the country heretofore, being returned to, gives the greatest 
 promise of peace again. 
 
 Blest, too, is he who can divine 
 
 Where real right doth lie, 
 And dares to take the side that seemi 
 
 Wrong to man's blindfolded eye. 
 
 Falter 
 
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 OCTOBER 9 
 
 Ye are cursed with a curse. Malacbi 3 : 8. 
 
 itif ot Political Circles. 
 
 (Extract from speech in the seventh and last joint debate 
 with Mr. Douglas, at Alton, Illinois, October 15, 1858. Con- 
 tinued from preceding page.) 
 
 But does not this question make a disturbance outside of politi- 
 cal circles? Does it not enter into churches and rend them 
 asunder? What divided the great Methodist Church into two 
 parts, North and South? What has raised this constant disturb- 
 ance in every Presbyterian General Asesmbly that meets? What 
 disturbed the Unitarian Church in this very city two years ago? 
 What has jarred and shaken the great American Tract Society 
 recently, not yet splitting it, but sure to divide it in the end? Is 
 it not this same mighty, deep-seated power that somehow oper- 
 ates on the minds of men, exciting and stirring them up in every 
 avenue of society, in politics, in religion, in literature, in morals, 
 in all the manifold relations of life? Is this the work of 'poli- 
 ticians? Is that irresistible power which for fifty years has 
 shaken the Government and agitated the people to be stilled and 
 subdued by pretending that it is an exceedingly simple thing, 
 and we ought not to talk about it? If you will get everybody to 
 stop talking about it, I assure you I will quit before they have 
 half done so. ... Where is the philosophy or the statesmanship 
 based on the assumption that we are to quit talking about it, and 
 that the public mind is all at once to cease being agitated by it? 
 Yet this is the policy here in the North that Douglas is advo- 
 cating that we are to care nothing about it! I ask you, is it 
 not a false philosophy? Is it not a false statesmanship that under- 
 takes to build up. a system of policy upon the basis of caring 
 nothing about the very thing that everybody does care the most 
 about a thing which all experience has shown we care a great 
 deal about? 
 
 Shall tongues be mute when deeds are wrought 
 
 Which well might shame extremest hellT 
 Shall freemen lack th' indignant thought? 
 
 Shall Mercy's bosom cease to sicellf 
 Khali Honor bleed f Shall Truth succumb* 
 Shall nen, and press, and soul be dumbf 
 
 Whittier. 
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 OCTOBER 10 
 
 Maketh merchandise of him ; . . . thou shalt put evil away from among 
 you. Deuteronomy 24 : 7. 
 
 l&eal 3te0ue. 
 
 (Extract from speech in the seventh and last joint debate 
 with Mr. Douglas, at Alton, Illinois, October 15, 1858. Con- 
 tinued from preceding page.) 
 
 The real issue in this controversy the one pressing upon every 
 mind is the sentiment on the part of one class that looks upon 
 the institution of slavery as a wrong, and of another class that 
 does not look upon it as a wrong. The sentiment that contem- 
 plates the institution of slavery in this country as a wrong is the 
 sentiment of the Republican party. It is the sentiment around 
 which all their actions, all their arguments circle, from which all 
 their propositions radiate. They look upon it as being a moral, 
 social, and political wrong, and while they contemplate it as such, 
 they nevertheless have due regard for its actual existence among 
 us, and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, 
 and to all the Constitutional obligations thrown about it. Yet, 
 having a due regard for these, they desire a policy in regard to it 
 that looks to its not creating any more danger. They insist that 
 it should, as far as may be, be treated as a wrong, and one of the 
 methods of treating it as a wrong is to make provisions that it 
 shall grow no larger. They also desire a policy that looks to a 
 peaceful end of slavery at some time, as being wrong. 
 
 By the hope within us springing, 
 
 Herald of to-morrow's strife; 
 By that sun, whose light is bringing 
 
 Chains or freedom, death or life 
 Oh ! remember, in life can be 
 
 No charms for him who lives not free. 
 
 Moore. 
 
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 OCTOBER 11 
 
 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment In the gate. 
 Amos 5 : 15. 
 
 3t ag a Mir onff. 
 
 (Extract from speech In the seventh and last joint debate 
 with Mr. Douglas, at Alton, Illinois, October 15, 1858. Con- 
 tinued from preceding page.) 
 
 On this subject of treating it as a wrong, and limiting its 
 spread, let me say a word. Has anything ever threatened the 
 existence of the Union save and except this very institution of 
 slavery? What is it that we hold most dear among us? Our own 
 liberty and prosperity. What has ever threatened our liberty and 
 prosperity save and except this institution of slavery? If this is 
 true, how do you propose to improve the condition of things by 
 enlarging slavery by spreading it out and making it bigger? 
 You may have a wen or cancer upon your person and not be able 
 to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way to 
 cure it to engraft it and spread it over your whole body. That 
 is no proper way of treating what you regard a wrong. You see 
 this peaceful way of dealing with it as a wrong restricting the 
 spread of it, and not allowing it to go into new countries where it 
 has not already existed. That is the peaceful way, the old-fash- 
 ioned way, the way in which the fathers themselves set us the 
 example. 
 
 / am thinking to-day of dem years dat passed away, 
 
 When dey tied me up in bondage long ago; 
 In old Virginny State, it was dar we separate, 
 
 And it filled my heart with misery and woe. 
 Dey took away my boy, he was his mother's joy, 
 
 From a baby in de cradle we him raise; 
 Oh ! dey put us far apart, an' it broke de old man's heart, 
 
 In dem agonizing, cruel slavery days. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 OCTOBER 12 
 
 Stand not in an evil thing. Ecclesiastes 8 : 3. 
 
 Pott JRebet {Treat 3t as a 
 
 (Extract from speech in seventh and last joint debate 
 with Mr. Douglas, at Alton, Illinois,. October 15, 1858. Con- 
 tinued from preceding page.) 
 
 On the other hand, I have said there is a sentiment which 
 treats it as not being a wrong. That is the Democratic sentiment 
 of this day. I do not mean to say that every man who stands 
 within that range positively asserts that it is right. That class 
 will include all who positively assert that it is right, and all who, 
 like Judge Douglas, treat it as indifferent and do not say that it 
 is either right or wrong. These two classes of men fall within 
 the general class of those who do not look upon it as a wrong; 
 and if there be among you anybody who supposes that he, as a 
 Democrat, can consider himself "as much opposed to slavery as 
 anybody," I would like to reason with him. You never treat it as 
 a wrong. What other thing that you consider as a wrong do you 
 deal with as you deal with that? Perhaps you say it is wrong, 
 but your leader never does, and you quarrel with anybody who 
 says it is wrong. Although you pretend to say so yourself, you 
 can find no fit place to deal with it as a wrong. You must not 
 say anything about it in the free States because it is not here. 
 You must not say anything about it in the slave States because it 
 is there. You must not say anything about it in the pulpit 
 because that is religion and has nothing to do with it. You must 
 not say anything about it in politics because that will disturb the 
 security of "my place." There is no place to talk about it as being 
 a wrong, although you say yourself it is a wrong. 
 
 Then to side with truth is noble ichen we share her icretched crust, 
 Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just: 
 Then it is the brave man chooses, ichile the coward stands aside 
 Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, 
 And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied 
 
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 OCTOBER 13 
 
 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him. . . . Woe unto 
 the wicked ! it shall be ill with him. Isaiah 3 : 10, 11. 
 
 (Eternal 
 
 (Extract from speech in the seventh and last joint debate 
 with Mr. Douglas, at Alton, Illinois, October 15, 1858. Con- 
 tinued from the preceding page.) 
 
 That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in 
 this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and my- 
 self shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two 
 principles right and wrong throughout the world. They are 
 the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning 
 of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the com- 
 mon right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. 
 It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It 
 is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, 
 and I'll eat it." No matter in what shape it comes, whether from 
 the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own 
 nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of 
 men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same 
 tyrannical principle. 
 
 It 's coming on the steeps of time, 
 
 And this old icorld is growing brighter; 
 We may not see its dawn sublime, 
 
 But high hopes make the heart throb lighter. 
 We may be sleeping in our graves 
 
 When it awakes the world in wonder, 
 But we have felt its coming sound 
 
 And heard its voice of thunder. 
 
 It 's coming! Yes, it 's coming! 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 OCTOBER 14 
 
 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and 
 hath conceived a purpose against you. Jeremiah 49 : 30. 
 
 ^Declaration ot Purpose. 
 
 (Extract from speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 
 1859, in reply to a recent speech of Mr. Douglas at same 
 place.) 
 
 The American people, on the first day of January, 1854, found 
 the African slave-trade prohibited by a law of Congress. In a 
 majority of the States of this Union, they found African slavery, 
 or any other sort of slavery, prohibited by State constitutions. 
 They also found a law existing, supposed to be valid, by which 
 slavery was excluded from almost all the territory the United 
 States then owned. This was the condition of the country with 
 reference to the institution of slavery, on the first of January, 
 1854. A few days after that, a bill was introduced into Congress, 
 which ran through its regular course in the two branches of the 
 National Legislature, and finally passed into a law in the month 
 of May, by which the act of Congress prohibiting slavery from 
 going into the Territories of the United States was repealed. In 
 connection with the law itself, and, in fact, in the terms of the 
 law, the then existing prohibition was not only repealed, but 
 there was a declaration of a purpose on the part of Congress 
 never thereafter to exercise any power that they might have, real 
 or supposed, to prohibit the extension or spread of slavery. 
 
 The mountains they proclaim 
 The everlasting creed of liberty! 
 That creed is written on the untrampled snoip, 
 Thundered by torrents which no power can hold 
 Save that of God when he sends forth his cold, 
 And breathed by winds that through the free heavens blow. 
 
 Bryant. 
 
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 OCTOBER 15 
 
 Consider the years of many generations. Deuteronomy 32 : 7. 
 
 (Genuine Popular &ofcmigntp. 
 
 (Extract from speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 
 1859, in reply to a recent speech of Mr. Douglas at same 
 place. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 I believe there is a genuine popular sovereignty. I think a 
 definition of genuine popular sovereignty, in the abstract, would 
 be about this, That each man shall do precisely as he pleases with 
 himself and with those things which exclusively concern him. 
 Applied to government, this principle would be that a general 
 government shall do all those things which pertain to it, and all 
 the local governments shall do precisely as they please in respect 
 to those matters which exclusively concern them. I understand 
 that this Government of the United States, under which we live, 
 is based upon this principle; and I am misunderstood if it is 
 supposed that I have any war to make upon that principle. Now 
 what is Judge Douglas's "popular sovereignty"? It is, as a prin- 
 ciple, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of 
 another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right 
 to object. Applied in government, as he seeks to apply it, it is 
 this: If, in a new Territory into which a few people are begin- 
 ning to enter for the purpose of making their homes, they choose 
 to either exclude slavery from their limits or to establish it there, 
 however one or the other may affect the persons to be enslaved, 
 or the indefinitely greater number of persons who are afterward 
 to inhabit that Territory, or the other members of families of 
 communities of which they are but an incipient member, or the 
 general head of the family of State as parent of all however 
 their action may affect one or the other of these, there is no power 
 or right to interfere. That is Douglas's popular sovereignty 
 applied. 
 
 Hail, independence by true reason taught. 
 
 How few have known and prized thee as they ought! 
 
 Some give thee up for riot ; some, like bo;/s, 
 
 Resign thee in their childish moods, for toys ; 
 
 Ambition some, some avarice misleads, 
 
 And in both cases, independence bleeds. 
 
 Churchill. 
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 OCTOBER 16 
 
 Omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith. 
 Matthew 23 : 23. 
 
 /Batter of ^Dollars and Crnt0. 
 
 (Extract from speech at Columbus, Ohio. September 16, 
 1859, in reply to a recent speech of Mr. Douglas at same 
 place. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 After Judge Douglas has established this proposition, which 
 nobody disputes or ever has disputed, he proceeds to assume, with- 
 out proving it, that slavery is one of those little, unimportant, 
 trivial matters which are of just as much consequence as the 
 question would be to me whether my neighbor should raise 
 horned cattle or plant tobacco; that there is no moral question 
 about it, but that it is altogether a matter of dollars and cents; 
 that when a new Territory is opened for settlement, the first man 
 who goes into it may plant there a thing which, like the Canada 
 thistle or some other of those pests of the soil, cannot be dug out 
 by the millions of men who will come together; that it is one of 
 those little things that is so trivial in its nature that it has no 
 effect upon anybody save the few men who first plant upon the 
 soil; that it is not a thing which in any way affects the families 
 of communities composing these States, nor in any way endangers 
 the general Government. Judge Douglas ignores altogether the 
 very well known fact that we have never had a serious menace to 
 our political existence, except it sprang from this thing which 
 he chooses to regard as only upon a par with onions and potatoes. 
 
 And oh! if there 'be, on this earthly sphere, 
 
 A toon, an offering Heaven holds dear, 
 
 'Tis the last libation liberty draws 
 
 From the heart that bleeds, and breaks in her cause ! 
 
 Moore. 
 
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 OCTOBER 17 
 
 As If that were a very little thing. Ezeklel 16 : 47. 
 
 Jiittlt J|2egto Question. 
 
 (Extract from speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 
 1859, in reply to a recent speech of Mr. Douglas at same 
 place. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 There is another little difficulty about this matter of treating 
 the Territories and States alike in all things, to which I ask your 
 attention, and I shall leave this branch of the case. If there is 
 no difference between them, why not make the Territories States 
 at once? What is the reason that Kansas was not fit to come into 
 the Union when it was organized into a Territory, in Judge Doug- 
 las's view? Can any of you tell any reason why it should not 
 have come into the Union at once? They are fit, as he thinks, to 
 decide upon the slavery question the largest and most important 
 with which they could possibly deal. What could they do by 
 coming into the Union that they are not fit to do, according to his 
 view, by staying out of it? Oh! they are not fit to sit in Congress 
 and decide upon the rates of postage or questions of ad valorem, 
 or specific duties on foreign goods, or live oak-timber contracts. 
 They are not fit to decide these vastly important matters, which 
 are national in their import, but they are "fit from the jump" to 
 decide this little negro question. 
 
 My angel his name is Freedom 
 
 Choose Mm to be your king; 
 He shall cut pathways East and West, 
 
 And fend you with his icing. 
 
 Emerson. 
 
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 OCTOBER 18 
 
 ri 
 
 flDrdinance of 1787. 
 
 (Extract from a speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 
 1859, in reply to a recent speech of Mr. Douglas at same 
 place. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 But three years after that the Congress of the Confederation 
 were together again, and they adopted a new ordinance for the 
 government of this Northwest Territory, not contemplating ter- 
 ritory south of the river, for the States owning that territory had 
 hitherto refrained from giving it to the general Government; 
 hence they made the ordinance to apply only to what the Govern- 
 ment owned. In that, the provision excluding slavery was in- 
 serted and passed unanimously, or at any rate it passed and 
 became a part of the law of the land. Under that ordinance we 
 live. First here in Ohio you were a Territory, then an enabling 
 act was passed, authorizing you to form a constitution and State 
 government, provided it was republican and not in conflict with 
 the Ordinance of '87. When you framed your constitution and 
 presented it for admission, I think you will find the legislation 
 upon the subject will show that, "whereas you had formed a con- 
 stitution that was republican and not in conflict with the Ordi- 
 nance of '87," therefore you were admitted upon equal footing 
 with the original States. The same process in a few years was 
 gone through with in Indiana, and so with Illinois, and the same 
 substantially with Michigan and Wisconsin. 
 
 Land of the West beneath the heaven 
 
 There 's not a fairer, lovelier clime, 
 Not one to which was ever given 
 
 A destiny more high, sublime, 
 
 Gallagher. 
 
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 OCTOBER 19 
 
 How long halt ye between two opinions ? I. Kings 18 : 21. 
 
 of G0tftt)ltel)ing a Proposition. 
 
 (Extract from speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 
 1859, in reply to a recent speech of Mr. Douglas at same 
 place. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 There are two ways of establishing a proposition. One is by 
 trying to demonstrate it upon reason, and the other is to show 
 that great men in former times have thought so and so, and thus 
 to pass it by weight of pure authority. Now, if Judge Douglas 
 will demonstrate somehow that this is popular sovereignty the 
 right of one man to make a slave of another, without any right in 
 that other, or any one else to object demonstrate it as Euclid 
 demonstrated a proposition there is no objection. But when he 
 comes forward seeking to carry a principle by bringing it to the 
 authority of men who themselves utterly repudiate that principle, 
 I ask that he shall not be permitted to do it. I see in the Judge's 
 speech here, a short sentence in these words, "Our fathers, when 
 they formed this Government under which we live, understood 
 this question just as well and even better than we do now." That 
 is true; I stick to that. I will stand by Judge Douglas in that to 
 the bitter end. And now, Judge Douglas, come and stand by me, 
 and truthfully show how they acted, understanding it better than 
 we do. All I ask of you, Judge Douglas, is to stick to the propo- 
 sition that the men of the Revolution understood this subject 
 better than we do now, and with that better understanding they 
 acted better than you are trying to act now. 
 
 The grand debate. 
 
 The popular harangue, the tart reply. 
 The logic, and the 'wisdom, and the wit, 
 And the loud laugh I long to know them all. 
 
 Cowper. 
 
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 OCTOBER 20 
 
 Through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper. Daniel 8 : 25. 
 
 3$m fatter of 
 
 (Extract from speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 
 1859, In reply to a recent speech of Mr. Douglas at same 
 place. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 If this principle is established, that there is no wrong in 
 slavery, and whoever wants it has a right to have it, it is a matter 
 of dollars and cents, a sort of question as to how they shall deal 
 with brutes, and that between us and the negro here there is no 
 sort of question, but that at the South the question is between the 
 negro and the crocodile. That is all. It is a mere matter of 
 policy; there is a perfect right according to interest to do just as 
 you please. When this is done, where this doctrine prevails, the 
 miners and the sappers will have formed public opinion for the 
 slave-trade. They will be ready for Jeff. Davis and Stephens and 
 other leaders of that company, to sound the bugle for the revival 
 of the slave-trade, for the second Dred Scott decision, for the 
 flood of slavery to be poured over the free States, while we shall 
 be here tied down and helpless and run over like sheep. 
 
 Down with the LAW that binds him thus! 
 
 Unworthy freemen, let it flnd 
 No refuge from the withering curse 
 
 Of God and human kind! 
 Open the prisoner's living tomb, 
 And usher from its brooding gloom 
 The victims of your savage code 
 To the free sun and air of God! 
 No longer dare as crime to brand 
 The chastening of th' Almighty's hand. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
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 OCTOBER 21 
 
 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I 
 arise, saith the Lord. Psalms 12 : 5. 
 
 <3Tentiencie0 to (Qiltimati (Emancipation. 
 
 (Extract from a speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 
 1859, in reply to a recent speech of Mr. Douglas at the same 
 place. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 Now, if you are opposed to slavery honestly, as much as any- 
 body, I ask you to note that fact, and the like of which is to 
 follow, to be plastered on, layer after layer, until very soon you 
 are prepared to deal with the negro everywhere as with the brute. 
 If public sentiment has not been debauched already to this point, 
 a new turn of the screw in that direction is all that is wanting; 
 and this is constantly being done by the teachers of this insidious 
 popular sovereignty. You need but one or two turns further until 
 your minds, now ripening under these teachings, will be ready for 
 all these things, and you will receive and support, or submit to 
 the slave-trade, revived with all its horrors, a slave code enforced 
 in our Territories, and a new Dred Scott decision to bring slavery 
 up to the very heart of the free North. This, I must say, is but 
 carrying out those words prophetically spoken by Mr. Clay many, 
 many years ago I believe more than thirty years when he told 
 an audience that if they would repress all tendencies to liberty 
 and ultimate emancipation, they must go back to the era of our 
 independence and muzzle the cannon which thundered its annual 
 joyous return on the Fourth of July; they must blow out the 
 moral lights around us; they must penetrate the human soul and 
 eradicate the love of liberty; but until they did these things, and 
 others eloquently enumerated by him, they could not repress all 
 tendencies to ultimate emancipation. 
 
 We pray de Lord he gib a sign, 
 
 Dot some day ice be free; 
 De norf wind tell it to de pines, 
 
 De wild duck to de sea.; 
 We tink it when de church bell ring, 
 
 We dream it in de dream; 
 De rice bird mean, it when he sing, 
 
 De agle when he scream. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
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 OCTOBER 23 
 
 The law of the wise Is a fountain of life. Proverbs 13 : 14. 
 
 Ultimate Eato for Sill 
 
 (Extract from a speech in response to a call of loyal Mary- 
 landers and others, at the Executive Mansion, October 19, 
 1864, who serenaded the President in honor of the new State 
 constitution adopted, October 12, 1864.) 
 
 I am notified that this is a compliment paid me by the loyal 
 Marylanders resident in this District. I infer that the adoption 
 of the new constitution for that State furnishes the occasion, and 
 that in your view the extirpation of slavery constitutes the chief 
 merit of the new constitution. Most heartily do I congratulate 
 you and Maryland and the Nation and the world upon the event. 
 I regret that it did not occur two years sooner, which I am sure 
 would have saved to the Nation more money than would have mot 
 all the private loss incident to the measure. But it has come at 
 last, and I sincerely hope its friends may fully realize all their 
 anticipations of good from it, and that its opponents may by its 
 effect be agreeably and profitably disappointed. ... I am 
 struggling to maintain the Government, not to overthrow it; I 
 am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it, 
 and I therefore say that if I shall live, I shall remain President 
 until the 4th of next March, and that whoever shall be constitu- 
 tionally elected thereto in November shall be duly installed as 
 President on the 4th of March, and that in the meantime I shall 
 do my utmost, that whoever is to hold the helm for the next 
 voyage shall start with the best possible chance to save the ship. 
 This is due to the people, both on principle and under the Consti- 
 tution. Their will, constitutionally expressed, is the ultimate 
 law for all. 
 
 Lincoln, the patriot, who by stroke of his pen, 
 Proclaimed emancipation, gave freedom to men; 
 Tho' in time Mississippi to flow may cease, 
 His name will live on, while his soul rests in peace. 
 
 Clara Lothamer Miner. 
 
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 OCTOBER 23 
 
 They agreed not among themselves. Acts 28 : 25. 
 
 Katiicate anli Congcrbattbcs. 
 
 (Extract from a lengthy letter to Honorable Charles Drake 
 and others, October 5, 1863.) 
 
 I do not feel justified to enter upon the broad field you present 
 in regard to the political differences between radicals and con- 
 servatives. From time to time I have done and said what appeared 
 to me proper to do and say. The public knows it well. It obliges 
 nobody to follow me, and I trust it obliges me to follow nobody. 
 The radicals and conservatives each agree with me in some things 
 and disagree in others. I could wish both to agree with me in all 
 things; for then they would agree with each other, and would be 
 too strong for any foe from any quarter. They, however, choose 
 to do otherwise; and I do not question their right. I, too, shall 
 do what seems to be my duty. 
 
 Here 's a sigh for those who Jove me, 
 And a smile to those who hate; 
 
 And whatever sky's above me, 
 Here 's a heart for any fate. 
 
 Byron. 
 
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 OCTOBER 24 
 
 And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him : and 
 I prayed for Aaron also the same time. Deuteronomy 9 : 20. 
 
 &crtptutal 
 
 (In reply to a criticism for appointing to an office a man 
 who had strongly opposed the President's second term.) 
 
 Well, I suppose Judge B., having been disappointed before, did 
 behave pretty ugly, but that wouldn't make him any less fit for 
 the place; and I think I have Scriptural authority for appointing 
 him. You remember when the Lord was on Mount Sinai, getting 
 out a commission for Aaron, that same Aaron was at the foot of 
 the mountain making a false god for the people to worship. Yet 
 Aaron got his commission, you know. 
 
 Siceet are the uses of adversity, 
 
 Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, 
 
 Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; 
 
 And this our life, exempt from public haunt, 
 
 Finds tongues in trees, hooks in the running brooks, 
 
 Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
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 OCTOBER 25 
 
 Then the devil . . . saith unto him. ... it is written. Matthew 4:5, 6. 
 
 in TBible 
 
 (Extract from speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 17, 
 1859, addressed to Kentuckians. See September 18.) 
 
 In Kentucky perhaps, in many of the slave States certainly, you 
 are trying to establish the rightfulness of slavery by reference to 
 the Bible. You are trying to show that slavery existed in the 
 Bible times by divine ordinance. Now, Douglas is wiser than 
 you, for your own benefit, upon that subject. Douglas knows that 
 whenever you establish that slavery was right by the Bible, it 
 will occur that that slavery was the slavery of the white man 
 of men without reference to color and he knows very well that 
 you may entertain that idea in Kentucky as much as you please; 
 but you will never win any Northern support upon it. He makes 
 a wiser argument for you; he makes the argument that the 
 slavery of the black man, the slavery of the man who has a skin 
 of a different color from your own, is right. He thereby brings to 
 your support Northern voters who would not for a moment be 
 brought by your own argument of the Bible right of slavery. 
 
 The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose; 
 
 An evil soul, producing holy icitness, 
 
 Is like a villian with a smiling cheek: 
 
 A goodly apple, rotten at the heart: 
 
 O what a goodly outside falsehood hath! 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
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 OCTOBER 26 
 
 Ah plain to nim that understandeth. Proverbs 8 : i>. 
 
 Illustration. 
 
 (From a speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 17, 1859. 
 Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 Pray, what was it that made you free? What kept you free? 
 Did you not find your country free when you came to decide that 
 Ohio should be a free State? It is Important to inquire by what 
 reason you found it so. Let us take an illustration between the 
 States of Ohio and Kentucky. Kentucky is separated from us by 
 this river Ohio, not a mile wide. A portion of Kentucky, by 
 reason of the course of the Ohio, is farther north than this portion 
 of Ohio in which we now stand. Kentucky is entirely covered 
 witn slavery; Ohio is entirely free from it. What made that dif- 
 ference? Was it climate? No! A portion of Kentucky was further 
 north than this portion of Ohio. Was it soil? No! There is 
 nothing in the soil of the one more favorable to slave labor than 
 the other. It was not climate or soil that caused one side of the 
 line to be entirely covered with slavery and the other side free of 
 it. What was it? Study over it. Tell us, if you can, in all the 
 range or conjecture, if there be anything you can conceive of that 
 made that difference, other than that there was no law of any 
 sort keeping it out of Kentucky, while the Ordinance of '87 kept 
 it out of Ohio. If there is any other reason than this, I confess 
 that it is wholly beyond my power to conceive of it. This, then, I 
 offer to combat the idea that that ordinance has never made any 
 State free. 
 
 My country! aye, thy sons are proud, 
 True heirs of freedom's glorious dower, 
 
 For never here has knee been bowed 
 In homage to a mortal power. 
 
 Mrs. Hale. 
 
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 OCTOBER 27 
 
 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. Prov 
 erbs 22:28. 
 
 Unto tana Became a jptee >tate. 
 
 (Extract from a speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 
 17, 1859. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 i don't stop at this illustration. I come to the State ol Indiana, 
 and what I have said as between Kentucky and Ohio 1 repeat as 
 between Indiana and Kentucky; it is equally applicable. One 
 additional argument is applicable also to Indiana. In her Terri- 
 torial condition she more than once petitioned Congress to abro- 
 gate the ordinance entirely, or at least so far as to suspend its 
 operation for a time, in order that they should exercise the "pop- 
 ular sovereignty" of having slaves if they wanted them. The 
 men then controlling the general Government, imitating the men 
 of the Revolution, refused Indiana that privilege. And so we 
 have evidence that Indiana supposed she could have slaves, if it 
 were not for that ordinance; that she besought Congress to re- 
 move that barrier out of the way; that Congress refused to do so, 
 and it all ended at last in Indiana being a Free State. Tell me 
 not, then, that the Ordinance of '87 had nothing to do with making 
 Indiana a free State, when we find some men chafing against and 
 only restrained by that barrier. 
 
 Thou, O my country, hast thy foolish ways, 
 Too apt to purr at every strangers praise 
 But if the stranger touch ttiy modes or laics, 
 Off goes the velvet and out come the claws. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
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 OCTOBER 28 
 
 A mail . . . went out early in the morning to hire laborers. Matthew 
 20:1. 
 
 Capital and Habor. 
 
 (Extract from a speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 
 17, 1859. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all 
 human comforts and necessities are drawn. There is a difference 
 in opinion about the elements of labor in (society. Some men 
 assume that there is a necessary connection between capital and 
 labor, and that connection draws within it the whole or the labor 
 of the community. They assume that nobody works unless capi- 
 tal excites them to work. They begin next to consider what is 
 the best way. They say there are but two ways: one is to hire 
 men and to allure them to labor by their consent; the other is to 
 buy the men and drive them to it, and that is slavery. Having 
 assumed that, they proceed to discuss the question of whether the 
 laborers themselves are better off in the condition of slaves or of 
 hired laborers, and they usually decide that they are better off in 
 the condition of slaves. In the first place, I say that the whole 
 thing is a mistake. That there is a certain relation between capi- 
 tal and labor i admit; that it does exist, and rightfully exists, I 
 think is true; that men who are industrious and sober and honest 
 in the pursuit of their own interests should after a while accumu- 
 late capital, and alter that should be allowed to enjoy it in peace, 
 and also, if they should choose, when they have accumulated it, 
 to use it to save themselves from actual labor and hire other 
 people to labor for tnem, is right. In doing so, they do not wrong 
 the man they employ, for they find men who have not of their 
 own land to work upon, or shops to work in, and who are bene- 
 fited by working for others hired laborers, receiving their capi- 
 tal for it. Thus a few men that own capital hire a few others, 
 and these establish the relation or capital and labor rightfully 
 a relation of which I make no complaint. But I insist that that 
 relation, after all, does not embrace more than one-eighth of the 
 labor of the country- 
 
 No man is born into the world whose worn 
 Is not oorn with him. There is always work, 
 And tools to work withal, for those who will; 
 And blessed be the horny hands of toil. 
 
 Loweli. 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 OCTOBER 29 
 
 From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures. II. Timothy 3 : 15. 
 
 (Boob flDId $atim& of tije 25ible. 
 
 (Extract from a speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 
 17, 1859. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly 
 applicable to human affairs, and in this, as in other things, we 
 may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he who 
 gathereth not with us, scattereth. I should be glad to have some 
 of the many good and able and noble men of the South to place 
 themselves where we can confer upon them the high honor of an 
 election upon one or the other end of our ticket. It would do my 
 soul good to do that thing. It would enable us to teach them 
 that, inasmuch as we select one of their own number to carry 
 out our principles, we are free from the charge that we mean to 
 do more than we say. 
 
 The Evblel the Bible! we hail it with joy; 
 
 Its truths and its glories our tongues shall employ; 
 We 'II sing of its triumphs, we 'II tell of its worth, 
 
 And send its glad tidings afar o'er the earth. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 OCTOBER SO 
 
 Let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. 
 Psalms 40 : 14. 
 
 021105 gott CoulU 
 
 (To a lady whose husband he had pardoned, and after she 
 had said. "Good-by, Mr. Lincoln, I shall probably never see 
 you again till we meet in heaven.") 
 
 I am afraid, with all my troubles, I shall never get to the rest- 
 ing-place you speak of; but if I do, I am sure I shall find you. 
 That you wish me to get there is, I believe, the best wish you 
 could make for me. Good-by. 
 
 (Immediately after, to Mr. Speed.) 
 
 It is more than many can often say, that in doing right one has 
 made two people happy in one day. Die when I may, I want it 
 said of me by those who know me best, that I have always 
 plucked a thistle and planted a flov/er when I thought a flower 
 would grow. 
 
 Lend a helping hand, my brother; 
 Sister, cheer the saddened one, 
 Earth is full of sorrow's children, 
 God has plenty to he done. 
 He has placed thee here for something; 
 Some great purpose to be wrought; 
 See thou dost not lose thy crowning. 
 When rewards cannot be bought. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 OCTOBER 31 (Hallowe'en) 
 
 He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the 
 noisome pestilence. Psalms 1 : 3. 
 
 But a j|2oi0r. 
 
 (To F. B. Carpenter, In 1864.) 
 
 Some years ago a couple of emigrants fresh from the Emerald 
 Isle, seeking labor, were making their way toward the West. 
 Coming suddenly, one evening, upon a pond or water, tney were 
 greeted with a grand chorus of bullfrogs a kind of music tney 
 had never before heard. "B-a-u-m!" "B-a-u-m!" Overcome with 
 terror, they clutched their "shillalahs" and crept cautiously for- 
 ward, straining their eyes in every direction to catch a glimpse 
 of the enemy; but he was not to be found! At last a happy idea 
 seized the foremost one; he sprang to his companion ana ex- 
 claimed, "And sure, Jamie, it is my opinion it's nothing but a 
 noise!" 
 
 Hallowe'en comes but once a year, 
 
 Over at mi/ house you will find good cheer; 
 
 I shall certainly expect you at quarter to eight, 
 
 Later than that ghosts will have fastened the gate. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 NOVEMBER 1 
 
 Cast me not off in the time of old age : forsake me not when my 
 strength faileth. Psalms 71 ; 9. 
 
 (General flfllinf ielb >cott Retire*. 
 
 (Order issued November 1, 1861.) 
 
 On the first day of November, A. D. 1861, upon his application 
 to the President of the United States, Brevet Lieutenant General 
 Winfield Scott is ordered to be placed, and hereby is placed upon 
 the list of retired officers of the Army of the United States, with- 
 out reduction in his current pay, subsistences, or allowances. 
 The American people will hear with sadness and deep emotion 
 that General Scott has withdrawn from the active control of the 
 army, while the President and the unanimous Cabinet express 
 their own and the Nation's sympathy in his personal affliction, 
 and their profound sense of the important public services ren- 
 dered by him to his country during his long and brilliant career, 
 among which will ever be gratefully distinguished his faithful 
 devotion to the Constitution, the Union, and the Flag when as- 
 sailed by a parricidal rebellion. 
 
 The fame that a man inns himself is oest; 
 That he may call his own; honors put on htm 
 Make him no more a mart than his clothes do. 
 Which are as soon taken off; for in the warmth 
 The heat comes from the body, not the weeds; 
 So man's true fame must strike from his own deeds. 
 
 Middleton. 
 
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 NOVEMBER 2 
 
 He also that Is slothful In his work Is brother to him that Is a great 
 waster. Proverbs 18 : 9. 
 
 Squirming airt Cratoltng ftbout. 
 
 (From a letter written In 1851 to his step-brother, John 
 Johnson, whom he had often aided.) 
 
 What can you do in Missouri better than here? Is the land 
 any richer? Can you there, any more than here, raise corn and 
 wheat and oats without work? Will anybody there, any mure 
 than here, do your work for you? If you intend to go to work, 
 chere is no better place than right where you are; if you do not 
 intend to go to work, you cannot get along anywhere. Squirming 
 and crawling about from place to place can do no good. You 
 have raised no crop tnis year, and what you really want is to sell 
 the land, get the money, and spend it. Part with the land you 
 have, and, my life upon it, you will never after own a spot big 
 enough to bury you in. Half you get for the land you will spend 
 in moving to Missouri, and the other half you will eat, drink, and 
 wear out, and no foot of land will be bought. Now, I feel it my 
 duty to have no hand in such a piece of foolery. 
 
 O w<nd some power the giftie gie us 
 To see oursel's as ithers see us ! 
 It wad frae monte a blunder free us, 
 An' foolish notion. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 3 
 
 Fear God, and keep his commandments : for this is the whole duty of 
 tan. Eccleslastes 12 : 13. 
 
 tttep on SDomg flDut 
 
 (In response to George H. Stuart, chairman. Bishop Jones, 
 Chaplain McCabe, and other members of the Christian Com- 
 mission, at the White House, in 1864.) 
 
 Gentlemen, I owe no thanks for what you have done. You owe 
 me no thanks for what I have done. You have done your duty; 1 
 have done mine. Let us keep on doing our duty, and by the help 
 of God we may yet save our country. I shall be glad to take each 
 of you by the hand. 
 
 The world may scorn me, if they choose I care 
 But little for their scofflngs. I may sink 
 For momenta, ~but I rise again, nor shrink 
 From doing what the faithful heart inspires. 
 I will not flatter, fawn, nor crouch, nor wink 
 At what high-mounted wealth or power desires: 
 I have a loftier aim to which my soul aspires. 
 
 Pcrciral. 
 
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 NOVEMBER 4 
 
 Wnoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing. Proverbs 18 : 22. 
 
 31 j^oto 
 
 (Words repeated at his marriage as he placed the ring on 
 the nnger of his oride, Miss Mary Todd, at Springfield, Illi- 
 nois, November 4, 1842.) 
 
 With this ring I now thee wed, and wltn all my worldly goous 
 I thee endow. 
 
 (From a letter written May 18, 1843, to J. F. Speed, of 
 Louisville, Kentucky, his close personal friend.) 
 
 We are not keeping house, but boarding at the Globe Tavern, 
 which is very well kept now by a widow of the name of Beck. 
 Boarding costs us only four dollars a week. ... I most heartily 
 wish that you and your Fanny will not fail to come. Just let 
 us know the time, a week in advance, and we will have a room 
 prepared for you, and we'll all be merry together for a while. 
 
 Marriage is the golden chain 
 
 That binds two hearts together 
 
 For pleasure or for pain, 
 
 For storm or pleasant weather. 
 
 Chas. Benj. Manley. 
 
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 NOVEMBER 5 
 
 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart : so doth the sweetness of a 
 man's friend by hearty counsel. Proverbs 27 : 9. 
 
 Contemn (Essential 
 
 (To Honorable Robert Dale Owen, who submitted a paper 
 on amnesty a few weeks before the President's message for 
 1863, to which was appended the Proclamation of Amnesty.) 
 
 Mr. Owen, it is due to you that I should say that you have con- 
 ferred a very essential service, both upon me and the country, Dy 
 the preparation of this paper. It contains that which it was 
 exceedingly important that I should know, but which, IT left to 
 myself, I never should have known, because I have not the time 
 necessary for such an examination of authorities as a review of 
 this kind involves. And I want to say, secondly, if I had the 
 time, I could not have done the work so well as you have done it. 
 
 O friends, 'be men and let your hearts 'be strong, 
 And let no warrior in the heat of fight 
 Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes; 
 For more of those who shrink from shame are safe 
 Than fall in battle, while with those who flee 
 Is neither glory nor reprieve from death. 
 
 Bryant. 
 
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 NOVEMBER 6 
 
 Sailing was now dangerous. Acts 27 : 9. 
 
 9u0t Change Dur tactics. 
 
 (To Mr. Carpenter, in 1864.) 
 
 It had got to be midsummer, 1862. Things had gone on from 
 bad to worse, until I felt that we had reached the end of our rope 
 on the plan of operations we had been pursuing; that we had 
 about played our last card, and must change our tactics or lose 
 the game! I now determined upon the adoption of the emanci- 
 pation policy, and, without consultation with, or the knowledge 
 of the Cabinet, I prepared the original draft of the proclamation, 
 and, after much anxious thought, called a Cabinet meeting upon 
 the subject. This was the last of July, or the first part of the 
 month of August, 1862. This Cabinet meeting took place, I think, 
 upon a Saturday. All were present except Mr. Blair, the Post- 
 master-General, who was absent at the opening of the discussion, 
 but came in subsequently. I said to the Cabinet that I had re- 
 solved upon this step, and had not called them together to ask 
 their advice, but to lay the subject-matter of a proclamation 
 before them; suggestions as to which would be in order, after 
 they had heard it read. 
 
 Never or now I cries the blood of a nation 
 
 Poured on the turf where the red rose should bloom. 
 
 Now is the day and the hour of salvation; 
 Never or now! peals the trumpet of doom. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
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 NOVEMBER 7 
 
 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? . . . who 
 hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry 
 long at the wine. Proverbs 23 : 29, 30. 
 
 31 Sim a practical 
 
 (Said in speeches when campaigning in Illinois with 
 Major J. B. Merwin in 1854-55, for Neal Dow State Prohi- 
 bition.) 
 
 This legalized liquor traffic, as carried on in the saloons and 
 grogshops, is the tragedy of civilization. Good citizenship de- 
 mands and requires that v/hat is right should not only be made 
 known, but be made prevalent; that what is evil should not only 
 be detected and defeated, but destroyed. The saloon has proven 
 itself to be the greatest foe, the most blighting curse of our 
 modern civilization, and this is the reason why I am a practical 
 Prohibitionist. We must not be satisfied until the public senti- 
 ment of this State and the individual conscience shall be in- 
 structed to look upon the saloon-keeper and the liquor-seller, with 
 all the license earth can give him, as simply and only a privi- 
 leged malefactor a criminal. 
 
 Let us rise in holy wrath, Christian soldiers, 
 Crush the evil 'neath the heel of our might! 
 
 Counting cost, no longer wait, 
 
 Forward, manhood of the stater 
 
 For in God our strength is great 
 
 For the right. 
 
 E. 8. Lorenz. 
 
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 NOVEMBER 8 
 
 The vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to 
 practice hypocrisy, and to utter error. Isaiah 32 : 6. 
 
 Bag* &Uop of 
 
 (From a private letter written in 1854.) 
 
 I acknowledge your rights and my obligations under the Con- 
 stitution in regard to your slaves. I confess I hate to see the 
 poor creatures hunted down and caught and carried back to their 
 stripes and unrequited toil, but I keep quiet. You ought to appre- 
 ciate how much the great body of the people of the North crucify 
 their feelings in order to maintain their loyalty to the Constitu- 
 tion and the Union. I do oppose the extension of slavery because 
 my judgment and feelings so prompt me, and I am under no 
 obligations to the contrary. As a nation we began by declaring, 
 "All men are created equal." We now practically read it, "All 
 men are created equal except negroes." When it comes to making 
 wholesale exceptions I should prefer emigrating to some country 
 where they make no pretense of loving liberty, where despotism 
 can be taken pure without the base alloy of hypocrisy. 
 
 It matters little where I was born, 
 
 If my pa-rents were rich or poor; 
 Whether they shrank at the cold world's scorn, 
 
 Or walked in the pride of wealth secure; 
 But whether I live an honest man, 
 
 And hold my integrity firm in my clutch, 
 I tell you, my brother, as plain as I am, 
 It matters much! 
 
 Anonymous, 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 
 
 It Is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. II. Corinthians 12 : 1. 
 
 j]2o {taint of 
 
 (Extract from a speech at a serenade by a club of Pennsyl- 
 vanlans, the night of second election, November 9, 1864.) 
 
 I cannot say at this hour what has been the result of the elec- 
 tion, but whatever it may have been, and I have no desire to 
 modify this opinion, all who have labored to-day in behalf of 
 the Union organization have wrought for the best interests of 
 the country and the world, not only for the present, but for all 
 future ages. I am thankful to God for the approval of the people ; 
 but while deeply grateful for this mark of their confidence in me, 
 if I know my heart, my gratitude is free from any taint of per- 
 sonal triumph. I do not impugn the motives of any one opposed 
 to me. It is no pleasure to me to triumph over any one, but I 
 give thanks to the Almighty for the evidences of the people's 
 resolution to stand by free government and the right of humanity. 
 
 To love is ever to ascend; 
 
 Oh, let our love, like thine, 
 The nation's highest good attend, 
 
 And icith thy spirit shine! 
 Thus shall our tribute catch from thee 
 
 Its worthiest, noblest, best, 
 And one united country see 
 
 Thy life's divine bequest. 
 
 Mary M. Adams. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 10 
 
 Such things must needs be. Mark 13 : 7. 
 
 dltttion a 
 
 (From a response to a serenade by the various Lincoln 
 and Johnson clubs of the District of Columbia, November 
 10, 1864.) 
 
 It has long been a grave question whether any government, not 
 too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to 
 maintain its existence in great emergencies. On this point the 
 present rebellion brought our Government to a severe test, and a 
 Presidential election occurring in a regular course during the re- 
 bellion added not a little to the strain. If the loyal people, united, 
 were put to the utmost of their strength by the rebellion, must 
 they not fail when divided and partially paralyzed by a political 
 war among themselves? But the election was a necessity. We 
 cannot have free government without elections; and if the rebel- 
 lion could force us to forego or postpone a National election, it 
 might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us. The 
 strife of the election is but human nature practically applied to 
 the facts of the case. What has occurred in this case must ever 
 reoccur in similar cases. 
 
 When a patriot falls, must he fall in the battle, 
 
 Where the cannon's loud roar is his only death rattlef 
 
 There 's a warfare where none but the morally brarr 
 
 Stand nobly and firmly, their country to save 
 
 'T is the war of opinion, where few can be found 
 
 On the mountain of principle, guarding the ground, 
 
 With vigilant eyes ever watching the foes 
 
 Who are prowling around them, and aiming their blows. 
 
 Mrs. Dana. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 11 
 
 lie strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and work : for I 
 am with you, salth the Lord of hosts, llaggai 2 : 4. 
 
 i?oto &oun& and Strong 
 
 (From a response to a serenade by the various Lincoln 
 and Johnson Clubs of the District of Columbia, November 
 10, 1864. Continued from pieceding page.) 
 
 Human nature will not change. In the future great National 
 trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and 
 as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us, there- 
 fore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom 
 from, and none of them as wrongs to be avenged. But the elec- 
 tion, along with its incidents and undesirable strife, has done 
 good, too. It has demonstrated that a people's government can 
 sustain a national election in the midst of a great civil war. 
 Until now it has not been known to the world that this was a 
 possibility. It shows, also, how sound and strong we are. It 
 shows that even among the candidates of the same party, he who 
 is most devoted to the Union and most opposed to treason can 
 receive most of the people's votes. It shows, also, to an extent 
 not yet known, that we have more men now than we had when 
 the war began. 
 
 United in one common purpose; 
 
 Inspired by one common tie, 
 Like brothers advance them together, 
 
 Achieving a grand destiny. 
 Sweep on like a torrent, resistless, 
 
 To purge and to cleanse in thy might 
 Corruption in arrogant splendor 
 
 Must bend to the law and the right. 
 
 Silas O. Pratt. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 12 
 
 I will make a man more precious than fine gold. Isaiah 13 : 12. 
 
 Better TO an (25olD. 
 
 (From a response to a serenade by the various Lincoln 
 and Johnson clubs of the District of Columbia. November 
 10, 1864. Continued from preceding page.) 
 
 Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, and patriotic men 
 are better than gold. But the rebellion continues, and, now that 
 the election is over, may not all have a common interest to 
 reunite in a common effort to save our common country? For my 
 own part, I have striven and shall strive to avoid placing any 
 obstacle in the way. So long as I have been here, I have not 
 willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom. While I am duly 
 sensible to the high compliment of a reelection, and duly grateful, 
 as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen 
 to a right conclusion, as I think, for their good, it adds nothing 
 to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed by the 
 result. May I ask those who have not differed with me to join 
 with me in this same spirit to those who have? 
 
 Good friends are better than gold! 
 I find it sweet as I grow old 
 To prove in you this happy truth 
 To which I held in early youth, 
 And having proved, shall ever hold: 
 Good friends are better than fine gold! 
 
 Miss Grannis. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 13 
 
 I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down : why should the 
 work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you ? Nehemiah 6 : 3. 
 
 (To a farmer who went to the President complaining that 
 Union soldiers in passing his place had taken his hay and 
 horse, and wanted his claim considered immediately.) 
 
 Why, my good sir, if I should attempt to consider every such 
 individual case I should find work for twenty Presidents! In my 
 early days I knew one, Jack Chase, who was a lumberman on the 
 Illinois, and, when steady and sober, the best raftsman on the 
 river. It was quite a trick twenty-five years ago to take the logs 
 over the rapids, but he was skillful with a raft, and always kept 
 her straight in the channel. Finally a steamer was put on, and 
 Jack he's dead now, poor fellow! was made captain of her. 
 He always used to take the wheel going through the rapids. One 
 day, when the boat was plunging and wallowing along the boiling 
 current, and Jack's utmost vigilance was being exercised to keep 
 her in the narrow channel, a boy pulled his coat-tail and hailed 
 him with, "Say, Mister Captain! I wish you would just stop your 
 boat a minute I 've lost my apple overboard." 
 
 He is so full of pleasant anecdote, 
 So rich, so gay, so poignant in his wit, 
 Time vanishes before him as he speaks, 
 And ruddy morning through the lattice peeps. 
 
 Miss Baillie. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 14 
 
 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil. Proverbs 20 : 30. 
 
 (In reply to a charge made in the campaign of 1840 by 
 Colonel Dick Taylor, a Democrat, that the Whigs were lords 
 and aristocrats. Lincoln was the Whig candidate for the 
 Illinois Legislature.) 
 
 I was a very poor boy, hired on a flatboat at eight dollars a 
 month, and had only one pair of breeches, and they were buck- 
 skin; and if you know the nature of buckskin when wet, and 
 dried by the sun they shrink, and mine kept shrinking until 
 they left several inches of my legs bare between the tops of my 
 socks and the lower part of my breeches; and whilst I was grow- 
 ing taller they were becoming shorter, and so much tighter that 
 they left a blue streak around my legs that can be seen to this 
 day. If you call this aristocracy, I plead guilty to the charge. 
 
 The man who sped the woodman's team, 
 And deepest sunk the plowman's share, 
 
 And pushed the laden raft astream, 
 Of fate before him unaware 
 
 This was the hand that knew to swing 
 The ax since thus would Freedom train 
 
 Her son and made the forest ring, 
 
 And drove the wedge, and toiled amain. 
 
 Edmund Clarence Stedman. 
 
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 NOVEMBER 15 
 
 Find out knowledge of witty inventions. Proverbs 8 : 12. 
 
 abutment on 
 
 (An illustration concerning the breach between the North- 
 ern and Southern wings of the Democratic party.) 
 
 I once knew a sound churchman by the name of Brown, who 
 was a member of a very sober and pious committee having in 
 charge the erection of a bridge over a dangerous and rapid river. 
 Several architects failed, and at last Brown said he had a friend 
 named Jones who had built several bridges and undoubtedly could 
 build that one. So Mr. Jones was called in. "Can you build this 
 bridge?" inquired the committee. "Yes," replied Jones, "or any 
 other. I could build a bridge to the infernal regions, if neces- 
 sary!" The committee were shocked, and Brown felt called upon 
 to defend his friend. "I know Jones so well," said he, "and he is 
 so honest a man and so good an architect, that if he states soberly 
 and positively that he can build a bridge to to , why, I believe 
 it; but I feel bound to say that I have my doubts about the abut- 
 ment on the infernal side." So when the politicians told me that 
 the Northern and Southern wings of Democracy could be harmon- 
 ized, why, I believed them, of course; but I always had my doubts 
 about the "abutment" on the other side. 
 
 With short plummets Heaven's deep well we sound, 
 That vast abyss where human wit is droicn'd; 
 In our small skiff we must not launch too far 
 We here liut coasters, not discoverers, are. 
 
 Drnden . 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 16 
 
 Six days may work be done ; but In the seventh is the sabbath of rest, 
 holy to the Lord. Exodus 31 : 15. 
 
 >6gerbance ot t&e fea&fcatl). 
 
 (The following order was issued November 16, 1862.) 
 
 The President, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, 
 desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the 
 officers and men in the military and naval service. The impor- 
 tance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred 
 rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to 
 the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the 
 Divine Will, demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be 
 reduced to the measure of strict necessity. The discipline and 
 character of the National forces should not suffer, nor the cause 
 they defend be imperiled by the profanation of the day or name 
 of the Most High. "At this time of public distress," adopting the 
 words of Washington in 1776, "men may find enough to do in the 
 service of God and their country without abandoning themselves 
 to vice and immorality." The first general order issued by the 
 Father of his Country, after the Declaration of Independence, 
 indicates the spirit in which our institutions were founded, and 
 should ever be defended. "The general hopes and trusts that 
 every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a 
 Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his 
 country." 
 
 A Sabbath well spent 
 
 Rrinffs a week of content, 
 And plenty of health for to-morrow. 
 
 Hut a Sabbath profaned, 
 
 A r o matter ichat 's gained, 
 / a certain forerunner of sorrow. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 17 
 
 There Is no wrong in mine hands. I. Chronicles 12 : 17. 
 
 of $y Snttntiong. 
 
 (Said in an interview, November, 1860.) 
 
 I know the justness of my intentions, and the utter groundless- 
 ness of the pretended fears of the men who are filling the country 
 with their clamor. If I go into the Presidency, they will find me 
 as I am on record, nothing less, nothing more. My declarations 
 have been made to the world without reservation. They have 
 been often repeated, and now self-respect demands of me and the 
 party which has elected me that, when threatened, I should be 
 silent. 
 
 The state is out of time; distracting fears 
 And jealous doubts jar in our public counsels; 
 Amid the wealthy city, murmurs rise, 
 Loud railings and reproach on those that rule, 
 With, open scorn of government; hence credit 
 And public trust 'twixt man and man are broke, 
 The golden streams of commerce are withheld 
 Which fed the icants of needy hinds and artisans, 
 Who therefore curse the great and threat rebellion. 
 
 Rowe. 
 
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 NOVEMBER 18 
 
 I have . . . used similitudes. Hosea 12 : 10. 
 
 &mmaI0. 
 
 (Related to some gentlemen in 1862, who thought the 
 interests of the country required an entire reconstruction of 
 the Cabinet, Mr. Cameron, Secretary of War, having already 
 resigned. ) 
 
 Gentlemen, when I was a young man I used to know very well 
 one Joe Wilson, who built himself a log cabin not far from where 
 I lived. Joe was very fond of eggs and chickens, and he took a 
 good deal of pains in fitting up a poultry shed. Having at length 
 got together a choice lot of young fowls of which he was very 
 proud he began to be very much annoyed by the depredation of 
 those little black and white spotted animals, which it is not neces- 
 sary to name. One night Joe was awakened by an unusual cack- 
 ling and fluttering among his chickens. Getting up, he crept out 
 to see what was going on. It was a moonlight night, and he soon 
 caught sight of half a dozen of the little pests, which with their 
 dam were running in and out of the shadow of the shed. Very 
 wrathy, Joe put a double charge into his old musket and thought 
 he would "clean" out the whole tribe at one shot. Somehow he 
 only killed one, and the balance scampered off across the field. 
 In telling the story, Joe would always pause here and hold his 
 nose. "Why didn't you follow them up and kill the rest?" in- 
 quired the neighbors. "Blast it," said Joe, "why, it was eleven 
 weeks before I got over killing one. If you want any more skir- 
 mishing in that line you can just do it yourselves." 
 
 A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; 
 The language plain, and incidents well link'd; 
 Tell not as new what everybody knows, 
 And, new or old, hasten to a close: 
 There, cent' ring in a focus round and neat, 
 Let all your rays of information meet. 
 
 Cowper. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 10 
 
 Of a truth many houses shall be desolate. Isaiah 5 : 9. 
 
 and ^ome $tt to br 
 
 (Said on his way to the Gettysburg National Cemetery, No- 
 vember 19, 1863, to an old gentleman going to visit the 
 grave of an only son who was killed there. See Gettysburg 
 address, May 30.) 
 
 You have been called on to make a terrible sacrifice for the 
 Union, and a visit to that spot, I fear, will open your wounds 
 afresh. But, oh, my dear sir, if we had reached the end of such 
 sacrifices, and had nothing left for us to do but to place garlands 
 on the graves of those who have already fallen, we could give 
 thanks even amidst our tears; but when I think of the sacrifices 
 of life yet to be offered, and the hearts and homes yet to be made 
 desolate before this dreadful war is over, my heart is like lead 
 within me, and I feel at times like hiding in the deep darkness. 
 
 O Gettysburg! thy living dead 
 
 Speak still across the years, 
 And by their voice our hearts are led 
 
 Above all passing fears! 
 But keep, O hills ! one record true 
 
 And one great captain's name! 
 Oh, then shall all men look to you 
 
 For nation's deathless fame. 
 
 Mary M. Adams. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 20 
 
 Let brotherly love continue. Hebrews 13 : 1. 
 
 16t0t|jit0 of a Common Country 
 
 (Said at a political meeting at Springfield, Illinois, No- 
 vember 20, 1860, where there was rejoicing over the Novem- * 
 ber election.) 
 
 I rejoice with you in the success which has so far attended the 
 Republican cause, yet in all our rejoicing let us neither express 
 nor cherish any hard feelings toward any citizen who by his vote 
 differed with us. Let us at all times remember that all American 
 citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell 
 together in the bonds of fraternal feeling. 
 
 Land of the forest <md the rock, 
 Of dark blue lake and mighty river, 
 Of mountains reared on high to mock 
 The storm's career and lightning shock, 
 
 My own green land forever! 
 Oh, never may a son of thine, 
 Where'er his wandering feet incline, 
 Forget the sky that bent above 
 His childhood like a dream of love! 
 
 Whittier. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 21 
 
 I have lost my children, and am desolate. Isaiah 49 : 21. 
 
 & Cogtlp Sacrifice. 
 
 (Letter written November 21, 1864, to Mrs. Bixby, a 
 widow, of Boston, who lost five sons in the war.) 
 
 I have been shown, in the files of the War Department, a state- 
 ment of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts, that you are the 
 mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of 
 battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine 
 which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so 
 overwhelming; but I cannot refrain from tendering to you the 
 consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they 
 died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the 
 anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished 
 memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be 
 yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. 
 
 Lord, be thou near and cheer my lonely way; 
 
 With thy sweet peace my aching bosom fill; 
 Scatter my cares and fears, my griefs allay, 
 And be it mine each day 
 
 To love and please thee still. 
 
 Pierre Corneille. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 22 
 
 Now also when I am old and grey-headed, O God forsake me not ; until 
 I have shewed thy strength unto this generation. Psalms 71 : 18. 
 
 Beyond tlje Psalnu0t'3 Smuts. 
 
 (Letter written November 21, 1864, to Deacon John Phil- 
 lips, one hundred and four years old.) 
 
 I have heard of the incident at the polls, in your town, in 
 which you acted so honorable a part, and I take the liberty of 
 writing to you to express my personal gratitude for the compli- 
 ment paid me by the suffrage of a citizen so venerable. The 
 example of such devotion to civic duties, in one whose days have 
 already been extended an average lifetime beyond the psalmist's 
 limits, cannot but be valuable and fruitful. It is not for myself 
 only, but for the country which you have, in your sphere, served 
 so long and so well, that I thank you. 
 
 E'en down to old age, all my people shall prove 
 MM grave is eternal, unbounded my love; 
 And ichen hoary hairs shall their temples adorn, 
 Like lambs they shall stilt in my bosom be borne. 
 
 Kennedy. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 23 
 
 Thy merchants were the great men of the earth. Revelation 18 : 23. 
 
 Open. 
 
 (To Mr. F. B. Carpenter, in 1864.) 
 
 Great men have various estimates. When Daniel Webster made 
 his tour through the West, years ago, he visited Springfield among 
 other places, where great preparations were made to receive him. 
 As the procession was going through the town, a barefooted little 
 darky boy pulled the sleeve of a man named T., and asked what 
 the folks were all doing down the street. "Why, Jack," was the 
 reply, "the biggest man in the world is coming." Now there lived 
 in Springfield a man by the name of G., a very corpulent man. 
 Jack darted off down the street, but presently returned with a 
 very disappointed air. "Well, did you see him?" inquired T. 
 "Ye-es," returned Jack, "but laws he hain't half as big as old G." 
 
 How big was Alexander, pa, 
 
 That people call Mm great f 
 Was he like Ooliath tallf 
 
 His spear a hundredweight t 
 
 Was he so large that he could stand 
 
 Like some tall steeple high, 
 And while his feet were on the ground, 
 
 His hand could touch the skyf 
 
 Oh, no, my child: about as large 
 
 As I or Uncle James; 
 'T was not his stature made him great, 
 
 But the greatness of his name. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 24 (Thanksgiviitg Day) 
 
 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness. Psalms 65 : 11. 
 
 &n0t&er gear of 
 
 (From Thanksgiving Proclamation, issued October 20, 1864.) 
 
 It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our National life 
 another year, defending us with his guardian care against un- 
 friendly designs from abroad and vouchsafing to us in his mercy 
 many and signal victories over the enemy, who is of our own 
 household. It has also pleased our Heavenly Father to favor as 
 well our citizens in their homes as our soldiers in their camps, 
 and our sailors on the rivers and seas, with unusual health. He 
 has largely augmented our free population by emancipation and 
 by immigration, while he has opened to us new sources of wealth, 
 and has crowned the labor of our workingmen in every depart- 
 ment of industry with abundant rewards. Moreover, he has 
 been pleased to animate and inspire our minds and hearts with 
 fortitude, courage, and resolution sufficient for the great trial of 
 civil war into which we had been brought by our adherence as a 
 Nation to the cause of freedom and humanity, and to afford to us 
 reasonable hopes of an ultimate and happy deliverance from all 
 our dangers and afflictions. Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, 
 President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart 
 the last Thursday in November next as a day which I desire to be 
 observed by all my fellow-citizens, wherever they may be, as a 
 day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, the beneficent 
 Creator and Ruler of the universe. 
 
 God of our fathers, known of old 
 Lord of our farflung battle line 
 
 Beneath whose awful hand ice hold 
 Dominion over palm and pine 
 
 Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 
 
 Lest ice forget lest we forget. 
 
 Rudyard Kipling. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 25 
 
 I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not 
 only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives. Acts 27 : 10. 
 
 a 
 
 (To Governor Morgan, of New York, in 1863.) 
 
 We are a good deal like whalers who have been long on a chase. 
 At last we have got our harpoon fairly into the monster; but we 
 must now look how we steer, or with one flop of his tail he will 
 yet send us all into eternity. 
 
 (Said to Commissioner Dole as to his chances for reelec- 
 tion, after calling for 500,000 more men in 1864.) 
 
 It matters not what becomes of me, we must have the men! 
 If I go down, I intend to go like the Cumberland, with my colors 
 flying! 
 
 There is a tide in the affairs of men 
 
 Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; 
 
 Omitted, all the voyage of their life 
 
 Is bound in shallows and in miseries. 
 
 On such a full sea are ice now afloat, 
 
 And we must take the current when it serves. 
 
 Or lose our ventures. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 26 
 
 When they have a matter, they come unto me. Exodus 18 : 16. 
 
 SDimt Contact flfllitf) tfje People. 
 
 (To Colonel Charles G. Halpine, on one of the President's 
 public days.) 
 
 The office of President is essentially a civil one. I feel though 
 the tax on my time is heavy that no hours of my day are better 
 employed than those which thus bring me again within the direct 
 contact and atmosphere of the average of our whole people. Men 
 moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official 
 not to say arbitrary in their ideas, and are apter and apter, 
 with each passing day, to forget that only they hold power in a 
 representative capacity. Now this is all wrong. I go into these 
 promiscuous receptions of all who claim to have business with 
 me twice each week, and every applicant for audience has to take 
 his turn, as if waiting to be shaved in a barber's shop. 
 
 Proudest of all earth's thrones 
 
 Is his who rules by a free people's choice; 
 
 Who, 'midst fierce party strife and battle-groans, 
 
 Hears, ever rising in harmonious tones, 
 A grateful people's voice. 
 
 Steadfast in thee we trust, 
 
 Tried a$ no man icas ever tried before; 
 Ood made thee merciful God keep thee just; 
 Be true! and triumph over all thou must, 
 
 Ood bless thee evermore. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 27 
 
 Without counsel purposes are disappointed : but in the multitude of 
 counsellors they are established. Proverbs 15 : 22. 
 
 Perception^ of Bt spousibilttp and SDtttp. 
 
 (To Colonel Charles G. Halpine. Continued from preced- 
 ing page.) 
 
 Many of the matters brought to my notice are utterly frivolous, 
 but others are more or less of importance, and all serve to renew 
 in me a clearer and more vivid image of that great popular 
 assemblage out of which I sprung, and to which at the end of two 
 years I must return. ... I call these receptions my "public- 
 opinion baths" ; for I have but little time to read the papers and 
 gather public opinion that way; and though they may not be 
 pleasant in all their particulars, the effect, as a whole, is reno- 
 vating and invigorating to my perceptions of responsibility and 
 duty. 
 
 Wherever in the world, I am, 
 
 In whatsoe'er estate, 
 I have a fellowship with hearts 
 
 To keep and cultivate; 
 And a work of lowly love to do 
 
 For the Lord on whom I wait. 
 
 So I ask Thee for the daily strength. 
 
 To none that ask denied; 
 And a mind to blend with outward life 
 
 While keeping at thy side, 
 Content to fill a little space 
 
 If thou be glorified. 
 
 Anna L. Warring. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 28 
 
 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it 
 with hammers. Isaiah 44 : 12. 
 
 (Said to General Grant as they were inspecting the Dutch 
 Gap Canal at City Point.) 
 
 Grant, do you know what this reminds me of? Out in Spring- 
 field, Illinois, there was a blacksmith named . One day, not 
 
 having much to do, he took a piece of soft iron and attempted to 
 weld it into an agricultural implement, but discovered that the 
 iron would not hold out; then he concluded it would make a 
 claw-hammer, but, having too much iron, attempted to make an ax, 
 but decided after working awhile that there was not enough iron 
 left. Finally, becoming disgusted, he filled the forge full of coal 
 and brought the iron to a white heat; then with his tongs he 
 lifted it from the bed of coals, and, thrusting it into a tub of 
 water near by, exclaimed with an oath, "Well, if I can't make 
 anything out of you, I will make a fizzle, anyhow." I am afraid 
 that is about what we have done with the Dutch Gap Canal. 
 
 But 't is some justice to ascribe to chance 
 The icrongs you must expect from ignorance: 
 None can the molds of their creation choose, 
 We therefore should men's ignorance excuse 
 When born too low to reach at things sublime: 
 'T is rather their misfortune than their crime. 
 
 Sir. W. Davenant. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 29 
 
 A man . . . skilful to work . . . and to find out every device which 
 shall be put to him. II. Chronicles 2 : 14. 
 
 Si patmt'Rig&t Cage. 
 
 (To a skilled architect in Springfield, Illinois.) 
 
 I have a patent-right case in court; I want you as a partner, 
 and will divide fees. I know nothing about mechanics never 
 made it a study. I want you to make a list of the best works on 
 mechanism, as I don't suppose they can be purchased here. I 
 will furnish the money, and you can send to Chicago or New 
 York for them. I want you to come to my house one night each 
 week and give me instruction. 
 
 Men of thought! be up and stirring 
 
 Night and day: 
 Sow the seed withdraw the curtain 
 
 Clear the way! 
 Men of action, aid and cheer them, 
 
 As ye may I 
 
 There 's a fount about to stream, 
 There 's a light about to beam, 
 There '8 a warmth about to glow, 
 There 's a flower about to blow: 
 There 's a midnight blackness changing 
 
 Into gray; 
 Men of thought and men of action, 
 
 Clear the way! 
 
 Charles Mackay. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 NOVEMBER 30 
 
 Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boll, 
 and he shall recover. Isaiah 38 : 21. 
 
 Si Cure for 
 
 (To Mr. Blair, Postmaster-General.) 
 
 Blair, did you know that fright has sometimes proven a cure 
 
 for boils? Not long ago, when Colonel , with his cavalry, 
 
 was at the front and the Rebs were making things rather lively 
 for us, the Colonel was ordered out to a reconnoissance. He was 
 troubled at the time with a big boil where it made horseback 
 riding decidedly uncomfortable. He finally dismounted and 
 ordered the troops forward without him. Soon he was startled 
 by the rapid reports of pistols, and the helter-skelter approach of 
 his troops in full retreat before a yelling rebel force. He forgot 
 everything but the yells, sprang into his saddle, and made capital 
 time over the fences and ditches till safe within the lines. The 
 pain from the boil was gone, and the boil, too, and the Colonel 
 swore that there was no cure for boils so sure as fright from 
 rebel yells. 
 
 They talk of short-liv'd pleasure be it so 
 Pain dies as quickly; stern hard-featur'd pain 
 
 Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go. 
 The fiercest agonies have shortest reign. 
 
 BryanU 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 1 
 
 Remember this, and show yourselves men. Isaiah 46 : 8. 
 
 Cannot 
 
 (Extract from the second annual message to Congress, 
 December 1, 1862.) 
 
 We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and the admin- 
 istration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal 
 significance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial 
 through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, 
 to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The 
 world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the 
 Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We even 
 we here hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving 
 freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free honorable 
 alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly 
 save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. 
 
 For humanity sweeps onward; where to-day the marti/r stands, 
 On the morrow crouches Judas icith the silver in his hands; 
 Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, 
 While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return 
 To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. 
 
 James Russell Lowell. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 2 
 
 Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be 
 rooted up. Matthew 15 : 13. 
 
 Broton. 
 
 (From the Cooper Institute speech, New York City, Feb- 
 ruary 20, 1860. John Brown was executed December 2, 
 1859.) 
 
 John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not slave insurrec- 
 tion. It was an attempt by white men to get up a revolt among 
 slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate. In fact, it was 
 so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly 
 enough that it could not succeed. That affair, in its philosophy, 
 corresponds with the many attempts related in history at the 
 assassination of kings and emperors. An enthusiast broods over 
 the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned 
 by heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends 
 in little else than his own execution. 
 
 Against this crime of crimes he fought and fell; 
 He freed a race and found a prison cell; 
 In mid-air hung upon the gibbet's tree, 
 But lived and died, thank God, to make men free. 
 And dusky men the ages down will tell 
 For what he fought, and how he bravely fell; 
 And dim the jewels in each earthly crown, 
 Ticside the luster of thy name, John Brown. 
 
 Joseph O. Waters. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 3 
 
 Tbou shalt eat the labour of thine hands : happy shalt thou be, and it 
 shall be well with thee. Psalms 128 : 2. 
 
 H (Bcnercus and prosperous Astern. 
 
 (From the first annual message to Congress, December 3, 1861.) 
 
 There is not of necessity any such thing as the free hired 
 laborer being fixed to that condition for life. Many independent 
 men everywhere in these States, a few years back in their lives, 
 were hired laborers. The prudent, penniless beggar in the world 
 labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools 
 or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, 
 and at length hires another beginner to help him. This is the 
 just and generous and prosperous system, which opens the way 
 to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and 
 improvement of condition to all. 
 
 Here, brothers, secure from all turmoil and danger, 
 We reap what we soiv, for the soil is our own. 
 
 We spread Hospitality's board for the stranger 
 And care not a fig for the king on his throne; 
 
 We never know want, for ice live by our labor, 
 And in it contentment and happiness find. 
 
 George P. Morris, 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 4 
 
 Changes and war are against me. Job 10 : 17. 
 
 &tart a Public Sentiment. 
 
 (Said to Senator Clark, of New Hampshire, as the day of 
 his second inauguration approached.) 
 
 Can't you and others start a public sentiment in favor of mak- 
 ing no changes in offices except for good and sufficient cause? It 
 seems as though the bare thought of going through again what 
 I did the first year here, would crush me. 
 
 (To another he said:) 
 
 I have made up my mind to make very few changes in the 
 offices in my gift for my second term. I think now that I will not 
 remove a single man except for delinquency. To remove a man is 
 very easy, but when I go to fill his place, there are twenty appli- 
 cants, and of these I must make nineteen enemies. 
 
 (To another:) 
 
 Sitting here, where all the avenues to public patronage seem to 
 come together in a knot, it does seem to me that our people are 
 fast approaching the point where it can be said that seven-eighths 
 of them are trying to find how to live at the expense of the other 
 eighth. 
 
 Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; 
 Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; 
 Thy fate is the common fate of all, 
 Into each life some rain must fall, 
 
 Some days must be dark and dreary. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 5 
 
 Money answereth all things. Eccleslastes 10 : 19. 
 
 ct t&e C5mnbacfe. 
 
 (To colonel Edmund D. Taylor, of Chicago, Illinois, De- 
 cember, 1864.) 
 
 I have long determined to make public the origin of the green- 
 back, and tell the world that it is one of Dick Taylor's creations. 
 You have always been friendly to me, and when troublous times 
 fell upon us, and my shoulders, though broad and willing, were 
 weak and myself surrounded by such circumstances and such 
 people that I knew not whom to trust, then I said in my extrem- 
 ity, "I will send for Colonel Taylor; he will know what to do." 
 I think it was in January, 1862, on or about the 16th, that I did 
 so. You came, and I said to you, "What shall we do?" Said you, 
 "Why, issue treasury notes bearing no interest, printed on the 
 best banking paper. Issue enough to pay off the army expenses, 
 and declare it a legal tender." Chase thought it a hazardous 
 thing, but we finally accomplished it, and gave to the people of 
 this Republic the greatest blessing they ever had their own 
 paper to pay off their own debts. It is due to you, the father of 
 the present greenback, that the people should know it, and I take 
 great pleasure in making it known. How many times I have 
 laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be any- 
 thing but a lawyer. 
 
 Green be thy back upon thee! 
 
 Thou pledge of happier days, 
 When bloody-handed treason 
 
 No more its head shall raise; 
 Pledge of the people's credit, 
 
 To carry on the war 
 By furnishing the sinews 
 
 In a currency at par. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 6 
 
 A man cannot tell what shall be ; and what shall be after him. Eccle- 
 slastes 10 : 14. 
 
 Content intoef fnftelp. 
 
 (From the fourth annual message to Congress, December 
 6, 1864.) 
 
 The important fact remains demonstrated that we have more 
 men now than we had when the war began; that we are not 
 exhausted nor in process of exhaustion; that we are gaining 
 strength, and may, if need be, maintain the contest indefinitely. 
 This as to men. Material resources are now more complete and 
 abundant than ever. The natural resources, then, are unex- 
 hausted, and, as we believe, inexhaustible. The public purpose 
 to reestablish and maintain the National authority is unchanged, 
 and, as we believe, unchangeable. The manner of continuing the 
 effort remains to choose. On careful consideration of all the evi- 
 dence accessible, it seems to me that no attempt at negotiation 
 with the insurgent leader would result in any good. He would 
 accept nothing short of the severance of the Union precisely 
 what we will not and cannot give. His declarations to this effect 
 are explicit and oft-repeated. He does not attempt to deceive us. 
 He affords us no excuse to deceive ourselves. 
 
 Oh, the bliss of human blindness just to know ice do not know 
 What is hid from us in kindness, both of sorrow and of woe. 
 'T would becloud our every blessing to be forced to know to-day 
 All the trials that atcait us, all the heartaches by the icay. 
 
 Rev. J. M. Fowler. 
 
 349
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 7 
 We looked for peace, but no good came. Jeremiah 8 : 15. 
 
 Crisis Came. 
 
 (From the third annual message to Congress, December 
 8, 1863.) 
 
 According to our political system, as a matter of civil admin- 
 istration, the general Government had no lawful power to effect 
 emancipation in any State, and for a long time it had been hoped 
 that the rebellion could be suppressed without resorting to it as a 
 military measure. It was all the while deemed possible that the 
 necessity for it might come, and that if it should, the crisis of the 
 contest would then be presented. It came, and, as was antici- 
 pated, it was followed by dark and doubtful days. Eleven months 
 have now passed, we are permitted to take another view. The 
 rebel borders are still pressed further back, and by the complete 
 opening of the Mississippi, the country dominated by the rebel- 
 lion is divided into distinct parts with no practical communica- 
 tion between them. Tennessee and Arkansas have been substan- 
 tially cleared of insurgent control, and influential citizens in 
 each, owners of slaves and advocates of slavery at the beginning 
 of the rebellion, now declare openly for emancipation in their 
 respective States. 
 
 It la coming it is nigh ! 
 
 Stand your homes and altars by, 
 
 On your own free threshold die. 
 
 Freedom's soil has only place 
 For a free and fearless race 
 None for traitors false and base. 
 
 With one heart and with one mouth 
 Let the North speak to the South; 
 Speak the word befitting both. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 8 
 
 The Lord raiseth them that are bowed down. Psalms 146 : 
 
 (From the third annual message to Congress, December 
 8, 1863.) 
 
 Of those who were slaves at the beginning of the rebellion, 
 full one hundred thousand are now in the United States military 
 service, about one-half of which number actually bear arms in the 
 ranks, thus giving the double advantage of taking so much labor 
 from the insurgent cause and supplying the places which other- 
 wise must be filled with so many white men. So far as tested, it 
 is difficult to say that they are not as good soldiers as any. No 
 servile insurrection or tendency to violence or cruelty has marked 
 the measures of emancipation and arming the blacks. These 
 measures have been much discussed in foreign countries, and, 
 contemporary with such discussion, the tone of public sentiment 
 there is much improved. At home the same measures have been 
 fully discussed, supported, criticised, and denounced, and the an- 
 nual elections following are highly encouraging to those whose 
 official duty it is to bear the country through this great trial. 
 Thus we have the new reckoning. The crisis which threatened 
 to divide the friends of the Union is past. 
 
 Here the free spirit of mankind at length 
 
 Throws its last fetters off ; and icho shall place 
 
 A limit to the giant's unchained strength f 
 Or curl) his swiftness in the forward race? 
 
 Bryant. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 9 
 
 Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. Luke 6 : 37. 
 
 JFuII Pardon (Granted. 
 
 (Extract from Proclamation of Amnesty, issued Decem- 
 ber 8, 1863.) 
 
 Therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 
 do proclaim, declare, and make known to all persons who have 
 directly or by implication participated in the existing rebellion, 
 except as hereinafter excepted, that a full pardon is hereby 
 granted to them and each of them, with restoration of all rights 
 and property, except as to slaves, and in property cases where 
 rights of third parties shall have intervened, and upon the con- 
 dition that every such person shall take and subscribe an oath, 
 and thenceforward keep and maintain such oath inviolate; and 
 which oath shall be registered for permanent preservation. 
 
 And now the Johnnies and the Tanks 
 Are brothers true, forever; 
 The only rivalry, to see 
 Which makes the best endeavor 
 To help our glorious country on, 
 The sacred home of liberty, 
 And hold aloft in foremost ranks 
 Our banner of the free. 
 
 Redington. 
 
 352
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 10 
 
 Thou dost establish equity. Fsalms 99 : 4. 
 
 Central 3toea0. 
 
 (Extract from a speech at a banquet, Chicago, Illinois, 
 December 10, 1856, after the Presidential campaign.) 
 
 Our Government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change 
 public opinion can change the Government, practically, just so 
 much. Public opinion on any subject always has a "central idea," 
 from which all its minor thoughts radiate. That "central Idea" 
 in our political public opinion at the beginning was and until 
 recently has continued to be "the equality of men." And although 
 it has always submitted patiently to whatever of inequality there 
 seemed to be as a matter of actual necessity, its constant working 
 has been a steady progress toward the practical equality of all 
 men. . . . Let bygones be bygones; let party differences as nothing 
 be, and with steady eye on the real issue, let us reinaugurate the 
 good old central ideas of the Republic. We can do it. The human 
 heart is with us; God is with us. We shall again be able to 
 declare not that "all the States as States are equal," nor yet 
 that "all citizens as citizens are equal," but to renew the broader, 
 better declaration, including both these and much more, that "all 
 men are created equal." 
 
 What God in Tils infinite wisdom designed, 
 And, armed with the weapons of thunder, 
 
 Not all the earth's despots or factions combined 
 Have the power to conquer or sunder. 
 
 The union of lakes, the union of lands, 
 
 The union of States none can sever, 
 The union of hearts, the union of hands, 
 
 And the flag of our Union forever. 
 
 O. P. Morris. 
 
 353
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 11 
 
 They shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided Into 
 two kingdoms any more at all. Ezekiel 37 : 22. 
 
 of <3Dtu Rational Jamil?. 
 
 (Extract from second annual message to Congress, De- 
 cember 1, 1862.) 
 
 A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and 
 its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain dura- 
 bility. "One generation passeth away, and another cometh, but 
 the earth abideth forever." It is of the first importance to duly 
 consider and estimate this ever-enduring part. That portion of 
 the earth's surface which is owned and inhabited by the people 
 of the United States is well adapted to be the home of one 
 national family, and it is not well adapted for two or more. Its 
 vast extent and its variety of climate and productions are of 
 advantage, in this age, for one people, whatever they might have 
 been in former ages. Steam, telegraphs, and intelligence have 
 brought these to be an advantageous combination for one united 
 people. 
 
 Our country I 't is a glorious land! 
 
 With broad arms stretch'd from shore to shore, 
 The proud Pacific chafes her strand, 
 
 She hears the dark Atlantic roar; 
 And nurtured on her ample breast, 
 
 How many a goodly prospect lies 
 In Nature's wildest grandeur drest, 
 
 Enamel'd with the loveliest dyes. 
 
 Pabodie. 
 
 354
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 12 
 
 That they be ... willing to communicate. I. Timothy 6 : 18. 
 
 Can (Communicate flfllitf) 
 
 (From a letter to Honorable Fernando Wood, December 12, 
 1862, In answer to a letter stating that lie had Information 
 that the Southern States would send representatives to the 
 next Congress, provided general amnesty was granted.) 
 
 I strongly suspect your information will prove to be ground- 
 less; nevertheless, I thank you for communicating it to me. 
 Understanding the phrase in the paragraph above quoted, "The 
 Southern States would send representatives to the next Congress," 
 to be substantially the same as, "The people of the Southern 
 States would cease resistance, and would inaugurate, submit to, 
 and maintain the National authority within the limits of such 
 States, under the Constitution of the United States," I say that in 
 such case the war would cease upon the part of the United States, 
 and that if within a reasonable time "a full and general amnesty" 
 were necessary to such end, it would not be withheld. I do not 
 think it would be proper now to communicate this, formally or 
 informally, to the people of the Southern States. My belief is 
 that they already know it, and when they choose, if ever, they 
 can communicate with me unequivocally. Nor do I think it 
 proper now to suspend military operations to try any experiments 
 of negotiation. 
 
 Though gay as mirth, as curious thoughts sedate; 
 As elegance polite, as power elate; 
 Profound in reason, and as justice clear; 
 Soft as compassion, yet as truth severe. 
 
 Savage. 
 
 355
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 13 
 
 The multitude was divided. Acts 23 : 7. 
 
 2Dibet0ttp of Sentiment. 
 
 (Extract from the second annual message to Congress, 
 December 1, 1862.) 
 
 Among the friends of the Union there is a great diversity of 
 sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race 
 among us. Some would perpetuate slavery; some would abolish it 
 suddenly, and without compensation; some would abolish it 
 gradually, and with compensation; some would remove the freed 
 people from us, and some would retain them with us; and there 
 are yet other minor diversities. Because of these diversities we 
 waste much strength in struggles among ourselves. By mutual 
 concession we should harmonize and act together. This would be 
 compromise, but it would be compromise among the friends, and 
 not with the enemies of the Union. 
 
 Oh, there never was a jangle, 
 When the chords of time did tangle, 
 
 But the master-touch has struck the keys 
 
 That brought the music rare; 
 And the song that faltered lowly 
 Has been changed to something holy, 
 
 And the rift of light has crowned wiih joy 
 
 The patient singer there. 
 
 W. Lomax Childress. 
 
 356
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 14 
 
 Speak thou the things which become sound doctrine. Titus 2 : 1. 
 
 Responsible ^{jrotifffj ^itne anH dctermtp. 
 
 (Extract from the second annual message to Congress, 
 December 1, 1862.) 
 
 In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which 
 they would not willingly be responsible through time and eter- 
 nity. Is it true, then, that colored people can displace any more 
 white labor by being free than by remaining slaves? If they stay 
 in their old places, they jostle no white laborers; if they leave 
 their old places they leave them open to white laborers. Logically, 
 there is neither more nor less of it. Emancipation, even without 
 deportation, would probably enhance the wages of white labor, 
 and very surely would not reduce them. Thus the customary 
 amount of labor would still have to be performed. 
 
 There 's many a way a man may see 
 
 To tetter his condition, 
 And many steps a man may take 
 
 To win a good position; 
 But the first question he should ask, 
 
 Observing all things squarely, 
 Is, when he first begins his task, 
 
 "Can I conduct it fairly t" 
 
 It satisfies a man to know 
 
 Upon mature reflection, 
 That how his fortune came to grow 
 
 Will bear a close inspection; 
 To gather wealth by honest ways 
 
 Is done, alas, too rarely, 
 And yet I'm sure it always pays 
 
 To know we 've won it -fairly. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
 357
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 16 
 
 A time of war, and a time of peace. Bcclesiastes 3 : 8. 
 
 Skuitt Past an* 5totmp Present. 
 
 (Extract from the second annual message to Congress, 
 December 1, 1862.) 
 
 I do not forget the gravity which should characterize a paper 
 addressed to the Congress of the Nation by the chief magistrate 
 of the Nation. Nor do I forget that some of you are my seniors, 
 nor that many of you have more experience than I in the conduct 
 of public affairs. Yet I trust that in view of the great responsi- 
 bility resting upon me, you will perceive no want of respect to 
 yourselves in any undue earnestness I may seem to display. . . . 
 The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy pres- 
 ent. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise 
 with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew 
 and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall 
 save our country. 
 
 Our fathers to their graves have gone, 
 Their strife is past, their triumph won; 
 But sterner trials wait the race 
 Which rises in their honored place 
 A moral warfare with the crime 
 And folly of an evil time. 
 
 For right and liberty they fought, 
 The righteous government they sought, 
 We seek to crush monopoly, 
 From licensed wrong the people free, 
 And rid our land of greed and lust, 
 Our shibboleth "In God we trust." 
 
 80 let it be. In God's oicn might 
 
 We gird us for the coming fight. 
 
 And strong in him whose cause is ours, 
 
 In conflict with unholy powers, 
 
 We grasp the weapons he has given 
 
 The light and truth and love of heaven. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
 358
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 16 
 
 Behold, I hare set before thee an open door. Revelation 3 : 8. 
 
 SDoot ^a0 IBecn flDpen tor a 
 
 (Extract from fourth annual message to Congress, Decem- 
 ber 6, 1864.) 
 
 A year ago general pardon and amnesty, upon specific terms, 
 were offered to all, except certain designated classes, and it was 
 at the same time made known that the excepted classes were still 
 within contemplation of special clemency. During the year many 
 availed themselves of the general provision, and many more 
 would, only that the signs of bad faith in some led to such pre- 
 cautionary measure as rendered the practical process less easy 
 and certain. During the same time, also, special pardons have 
 been granted to individuals of the excepted class, and no volun- 
 tary application has been denied. Thus, practically, the door has 
 been for a full year open to all, except such as were not in condi- 
 tion to make free choice that is, such as were in custody or 
 under restraint. It is still open to all. But the time may come 
 probably will come when public duty shall demand that it be 
 closed, and that, in lieu, more rigorous measures than heretofore 
 shall be adopted. 
 
 Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, 
 
 In the strife of Truth and Falsehood, for the good or evil side. 
 
 Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, 
 
 Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right, 
 
 And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. 
 
 Lowell. 
 
 359
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 17 
 
 Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord's 
 side? Exodus 32 : 26. 
 
 (To a clergyman who said he hoped the Lord was on our 
 side.) 
 
 I am not at all concerned about that, for I know that the Lord 
 is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety 
 and prayer that I and this Nation shall be on the Lord's side. 
 
 (On another occasion.) 
 
 I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelm- 
 ing conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, 
 and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for that day. 
 
 He always wins who sides with God; 
 
 To him no chance is lost. 
 God's will is sweetest to him when 
 
 It triumphs at his cost. 
 
 All that he blesses is our good, 
 
 And unblest good is ill, 
 And all is right that seems most wrong, 
 
 If it be his sweet will. 
 
 Faber. 
 
 360
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 18 
 
 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and 
 set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a 
 new song in my mouth. Psalms 40 : 2, 3. 
 
 Been a Victim. 
 
 (From a temperance address, Second Presbyterian Church, 
 Springfield, Illinois, February 22, 1842.) 
 
 It is so easy and so common to ascribe motives to men of these 
 classes other than those they profess to act upon. The preacher, 
 it is said, advocates temperance because he is a fanatic and 
 desires a union of church and state; the lawyer, from his pride 
 and vanity of hearing himself speak; and the hired agent for his 
 salary. But when one who has long been known as a victim of 
 intemperance bursts the fetters that have bound him and appears 
 before his neighbors "clothed and in his right mind," a redeemed 
 specimen of long-lost humanity, and stands up, with tears of joy 
 trembling in his eyes, to tell of the miseries once endured, now 
 to be endured no more forever; of his once naked and starving 
 children, now clad and fed comfortably; of a wife, long weighed 
 down with woe, weeping, and a broken heart, now restored to 
 health, happiness, and a renewed affection, and how easily it is 
 all done, once it is resolved to be done, how simple his lan- 
 guage! there is a logic and an eloquence in it that few with 
 human feelings can resist. 
 
 We praise Thee if one clouded home, 
 Where broken hearts despairing pined, 
 
 Behold the sire and husband come, 
 Erect and in his perfect mind. 
 
 No more a weeping wife to mock 
 Till all her hopes in anguish, end 
 No more the trembling mind to shock, 
 And sink the father in the friend. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
 361
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 19 
 
 He that winneth souls is wise. Proverbs 11 : 30. 
 
 to flfllin 
 
 (From a temperance address, Second Presbyterian Church, 
 Springfield, Illinois, February 22, 1842. Continued from pre- 
 ceding page.) 
 
 If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that 
 you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that 
 catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad 
 to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but 
 little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your 
 cause, if, indeed, that cause really be a just one. On the con- 
 trary, assume to dictate to his judgment, or to command his 
 action, or to mark him as one to be shunned and despised, and 
 he will retreat within himself, close all the avenues to his head 
 and his heart, and though your cause be naked truth itself, trans- 
 formed to the heaviest lance, harder than steel and sharper than 
 steel can be made, and though you throw it with more than Her- 
 culean force and precision, you shall be no more able to pierce 
 him than to penetrate the hard shell of a tortoise with a rye- 
 straw. Such is a man, and so must he be understood by those 
 who would lead him even to his own best interests. 
 
 The fine and noble way to kill a foe 
 
 Is not to kill Mm; you with kindness may 
 
 80 change him that he shall cease to lie so; 
 And then he 's slain. Sigismund used to say 
 
 His pardons put his foes to death; for when 
 
 He mortifi'd their hate, he killed them then. 
 
 Aleyn. 
 
 362
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 2O 
 
 Lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgres- 
 sion. Isaiah 58 : 1. 
 
 tf)i Sl^oral 'Crump. 
 
 (From a temperance address, Second Presbyterian Church, 
 Springfield, Illinois, February 22, 1842. Continued from pre- 
 ceding page.) 
 
 Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total 
 and final banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks, seems to 
 me not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess 
 the affirmative with their tongues; and, I believe, all the rest 
 acknowledge it in their hearts. Ought any, then, to refuse their 
 aid in doing what the good of the whole demands? . . . There 
 seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm- 
 blooded to fall into this vice. The demon of intemperance ever 
 seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and gen- 
 erosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative, more 
 promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice 
 to his rapacity? He ever seems to have gone forth like the Egyp- 
 tian angel of death, commissioned to slay, if not the first, the 
 fairest born of every family. Shall he now be arrested in his deso- 
 lating career? In that arrest, all can give aid that will; and who 
 shall be excused that can, and will not? Far around as human 
 breath has ever blown, he keeps our fathers, our brothers, our 
 sons, and our friends prostrate in the chains of moral death. To 
 all the living, everywhere, we cry, "Come, sound the moral trump, 
 that these may arise and stand up an exceeding great army! 
 Come from the four winds, O breath! and breathe upon these 
 slain, that they may live." If the relative grandeur of revolu- 
 tions shall be estimated by the great amount of human misery 
 they alleviate, and the small amount they inflict, then, indeed, 
 will this be the grandest the world shall ever have seen. 
 
 Mourn for the thousands slain, 
 
 The youthful and the strong; 
 Mourn for the wine-cup's fearful reign, 
 
 And the deluded throng. 
 
 Mourn for the lost but call, 
 
 Call to the strong, the free; 
 Rouse them to shun that dreadful fall 
 
 And to the refuge flee. Anonymous. 
 
 363
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 21 
 
 The ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs 
 and everlasting joy upon their heads : they shall obtain joy and gladness, 
 and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Isaiah 35 : 10. 
 
 a felate j$0r a 2Drunfear&. 
 
 (From a temperance address, Second Presbyterian Church, 
 Springfield, Illinois, February 22, 1842. Continued from pre- 
 ceding page.) 
 
 Happy day, when, all appetites controlled, all passions subdued, 
 all matters subjugated, mind, all-conquering mind, shall live and 
 move, the monarch of the world! Glorious consummation! Hail, 
 fall of fury, reign of reason, all hail! And when the victory 
 shall be complete when there shall neither be a slave nor a drunk- 
 ard on the earth how proud the title of that land which may 
 truly claim to be the birthplace and the cradle of both those revo- 
 lutions that shall have ended in that victory! How nobly dis- 
 tinguished that people who shall have planted and nurtured to 
 maturity both the political and moral freedom of their species! 
 
 Until immortal mind 
 
 Unshackled walks abroad, 
 And chains no longer bind 
 The image of our God; 
 Until no captive one 
 
 Murmurs on land or wave, 
 And in his course the sun 
 
 Looks down upon no slave. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
 364
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 22 (Forefathers' Day) 
 
 These . . . confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the 
 earth. Hebrews 11 : 13. 
 
 Handing of tfje 
 
 (Written December 19, 1864, to Joseph H. Choate, of 
 New York, in answer to an invitation to be present at the 
 annual festival of the New England Society.) 
 
 I have the honor to acknowledge the reception of your kind 
 invitation to be present at the annual festival of the New England 
 Society, to commemorate the landing of the Pilgrims on Thurs- 
 day, the 22d of this month. My duties will not allow me to avail 
 myself of your kindness. I cannot but congratulate you and the 
 country, however, upon the spectacle of devoted unanimity pre- 
 sented by the people at home, the citizens that form our march- 
 ing columns, and the citizens that fill our squadrons on the sea 
 all animated by the same determination to complete and perpet- 
 uate the work our fathers began and transmitted. The work of 
 the Plymouth emigrants was the glory of their age. While we 
 reverence their memory, let us not forget how vastly greater is 
 our opportunity. 
 
 M y country, 't is of thee, 
 Sweet land of liberty, 
 
 Of thee I sing! 
 Land where my -fathers died, 
 Land of the pilgrim's pride, 
 From every mountain side 
 
 Let freedom ring ! 
 
 Our father's God, to thee, 
 Author of liberty, 
 
 To thee we sing! 
 Long may our land be bright 
 With freedom's holy light, 
 Protect us by thy might, 
 
 Great God, our King. 
 
 Samuel F. Smith. 
 
 365
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 23 
 
 In controversy they shall stand in judgment. Ezekiel 44 : 24. 
 
 ^fjc Bnlp Substantial 2Dif toner. 
 
 (Written from Springfield, Illinois, December 22, 1860, to 
 Honorable Alexander H. Stephens, who afterwards was Vice 
 President of the Confederate States.) 
 
 Your obliging answer to my short note is just received, and for 
 which please accept my thanks. I fully appreciate the present 
 peril the country is in, and the weight of responsibility on me. 
 Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republi- 
 can administration would, directly or indirectly, interfere with 
 the slaves, or with them about the slaves? If they do, I wish to 
 assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that 
 there is no cause for such fears. The South would be in no more 
 danger in this respect than it was in the days of Washington. I 
 suppose, however, this does not meet the case. You think slavery 
 is right and ought to be extended, while we think it is wrong and 
 ought to be restricted. That, I suppose, is the rub. It certainly 
 is the only substantial difference between us. 
 
 Workman of God I Oh, lose not heart, 
 
 But learn what God is like; 
 And in the darkest battle-field 
 
 Thou shalt know where to strike. 
 
 Blest, too, is he who can divine 
 
 Where real right doth lie, 
 And dares to take the side that seems 
 
 Wrong to man's blindfolded eye. 
 
 Faber. 
 
 366
 
 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 24 
 
 War a good warfare. I. Timothy 1 : 18. 
 
 of a (Breat fttmp. 
 
 (To the Army of the Potomac, December 22, 1862.) 
 
 I have just read your commanding general's preliminary report 
 of the batle of Fredericksburg. Although you were not success- 
 ful, the attempt was not an error, nor the failure other than an 
 accident. The courage with which you, in an open field, main- 
 tained the contest against an entrenched foe, and the consummate 
 skill and success with which you crossed and recrossed the river 
 in the face of the enemy, show that you possess all the qualities 
 of a great army, which will yet give victory to the cause of the 
 country and of popular government. Condoling with the mourners 
 for the dead, and sympathizing with the severely wounded, I con- 
 gratulate you that the number of both is comparatively so small. 
 I tender to you, officers and soldiers, the thanks of a Nation. 
 
 Soldiers in arms ! defenders of our soil I 
 Who from destruction save us; who from spoil 
 Protect the sons of peace, who traffic or who toil; 
 Would I could duly praise you, that each deed 
 Your foes might honor, and your friends might read. 
 
 Crabbe. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 25 (Christmas Day) 
 
 Search the scriptures : . . . they are they which testify of me. John 5 : 39. 
 
 Profitably (Engage &. 
 
 (To Joshua Speed, his intimate personal friend about a 
 year before his death.) 
 
 I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this 
 book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you 
 will live and die a better man. 
 
 (At another time.) 
 
 I am very sure that if I do not go away from here a wiser man, 
 I shall go away a better man for having learned here what a very 
 poor sort of a man I am. 
 
 The star which marked the wise men's way 
 
 At our Redeemer's Mrth, 
 No longer guides with cheering ray 
 
 Our footsteps here on earth. 
 
 Yet light is given us from above 
 
 Our pathicay to define; 
 And blessed words of truth and love 
 
 Like stars around us shine. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 2 
 
 Behold, I have sent unto thee a present. I. Kings 15 : 19. 
 
 Cf)ti$tma0 (Bit t. 
 
 (Letter to General Sherman, December 26, 1864.) 
 
 Many, many thanks for your Christmas gift, the capture of 
 Savannah. When you were about to leave Atlanta for the Atlan- 
 tic Coast, I was anxious, if not fearful; but, feeling that you 
 were the better judge, and remembering that, nothing risked, 
 nothing gained, I did not interfere. Now, the undertaking being 
 a success, the honor is all yours, for I believe none of us went 
 further than to acquiesce. And, taking the work of General 
 Thomas into account, as it should be taken, it is indeed a great 
 success. Not only does it afford the obvious and immediate mili- 
 tary advantages, but in showing to the world that your army 
 could be divided, putting the stronger part to an important new 
 service, and yet having enough to vanquish the old opposing 
 forces of the whole Hood's army it brings those who sat in 
 darkness to see a great light. 
 
 Yes, and there were Union men who wept with joyful tears 
 When they saw the honored flag they had not seen for years ; 
 Hardly could they be restrained from breaking forth in cheers 
 While we were marching through Georgia. 
 
 Henry C. Work. 
 
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 DECEMBER 27 
 
 A doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people. Acts 5 : 34. 
 
 of SDoctor of 2Uto0. 
 
 (Letter written December 27, 1864, to Dr. John Maclean, 
 president of Princeton College, New Jersey.) 
 
 I have the honor to acknowledge the reception of your note of 
 the 20th of December, conveying the announcement that the trus- 
 tees of the College of New Jersey had conferred upon me the 
 degree of Doctor of Laws. The assurance conveyed by this high 
 compliment, that the cause of the Government which I represent 
 has received the approval of a body of gentlemen of such char- 
 acter and intelligence, in this time of public trial, is most grateful 
 to me. Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization 
 upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. 
 Among the most gratifying proofs of this conviction is the hearty 
 devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the 
 National cause. I am most thankful if my labors have seemed to 
 conduce to the preservation of those institutions under which 
 alone we can expect good government, and in its train sound 
 learning and the progress of the liberal arts. 
 
 'T is not in titles, nor in rank, 
 
 'T is not wealth, like London tank, 
 
 To make us truly blest. 
 If happiness hath not her seat 
 
 And center in the breast, 
 We may be wise, or rich, or great, 
 
 But never can be blest. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 28 
 
 Condescend to men of low estate. Romans 12 : 16. 
 
 flDut of $v Wl&ml ine. 
 
 (To a Washington correspondent who entered the Presi- 
 dent's office and found him very busy counting greenbacks.) 
 
 This, sir, is something out of my usual line; but a President of 
 the United States has a multiplicity of duties not specified in the 
 Constitution or acts of Congress. This is one of them. This 
 money belongs to a poor negro who is a porter in the Treasury 
 Department, at present very bad with the smallpox. He is now 
 in the hospital, and could not draw his pay because he could not 
 sign his name. I have been at considerable trouble to overcome 
 the difficulty and get it for him, and have at length succeeded in 
 cutting red tape, as you newspaper men say. I am now dividing 
 the money and putting by a portion labeled, in an envelope, with 
 my own hands, according to his wish. 
 
 We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; 
 In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
 We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives 
 Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. 
 
 Bailey. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 29 
 
 We are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. 
 I. Corinthians 4 : 9. 
 
 &ttangr Spectacle. 
 
 (To Doctor Sunderland, chaplain of the Senate, a few days 
 before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.) 
 
 Doctor, if it had been left to you and me, there would have been 
 no war. If it had been left to you and me, there would have been 
 no cause for this war; but it was not left to us. God has allowed 
 men to make slaves of their fellows. He permits this war. He 
 has before him a strange spectacle. We, on our side, are praying 
 him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those 
 on the other side pray him, too, for victory, believing they are 
 right. What must he think of us? And what is coming from the 
 struggle? What will be the effect of it all on the whites and on 
 the negroes? As for the negroes, Doctor, and what is to become 
 of them, I told Ben Wade the other day that it made me think 
 of a story I read in one of my first books, "^sop's Fables." It 
 was an old edition, and had curious, rough wood-cuts, one of 
 which showed four white men scrubbing a negro in a potash ket- 
 tle filled with cold water. The text explained that the men 
 thought that by scrubbing the negro they might make him white. 
 Just about the time they thought they were succeeding, he took 
 cold and died. Now, I am afraid that by the time we get through 
 this war the negro will catch cold and die. 
 
 O pity God, this miserable age! 
 What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, 
 Erroneous, mutinous, and unnatural, 
 This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 DECEMBER 30 
 
 Unto thee shall the vow be performed. Psalms 65 : 1. 
 
 $oto Before CS0&. 
 
 (At a Cabinet meeting just before the issue of the Pro- 
 visional Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1864.) 
 
 The time for the annunciation of the emancipation policy can 
 be no longer delayed. Public sentiment, I think, will sustain it, 
 many of my warmest friends and supporters demand it, and I 
 have promised my God that I would do it. I made a solemn vow 
 before God that if General Lee was driven back from Pennsyl- 
 vania, I would crown the result by the declaration of freedom to 
 the slaves. 
 
 Yes ! thy proud lords, unpitied land ! shall see 
 That man hath yet a soul and dare be free! 
 A little while, along thy saddening plains, 
 The starless night of desolation reigns; 
 Truth shall restore the light by nature given, 
 And like Prometheus, bring the flre of heaven! 
 Prone to the dust oppression shall be hurl'd 
 Her name, her nature, wither'd from the world. 
 
 Campbell. 
 
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 DECEMBER 31 
 
 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not 
 return. Job 16 : 22. 
 
 >ilent Artillery ot 
 
 (Extract from an address before the Springfield, Lyceum, 
 in 1838, when he was twenty-nine years of age. He here 
 alludes to our Revolutionary ancestors. See pages 35, 36, 37.) 
 
 In history we hope they will be read of and recounted as long 
 as the Bible shall be read. But even granting that they will, 
 their influence cannot be what it heretofore has been. Even then 
 they cannot be so universally known nor so vividly felt as they 
 were by the generation just gone to rest. At the close of that 
 struggle nearly every adult male had been a participator in some 
 of its scenes. The consequence was that of those scenes, in the 
 form of a husband, a father, a son, or a brother, a living history 
 was to be found in every family a history bearing the indubi- 
 table testimonies to its own authenticity, in the limbs mangled, 
 in the scars of wounds received in the midst of the very scenes 
 related ; a history, too, that could be read and understood alike by 
 all, the wise and the ignorant, the learned and the unlearned. 
 But those histories are gone. They can be read no more forever. 
 They were a fortress of strength; but what the invading foeman 
 could never do, the silent artillery of time has done the leveling 
 of its walls. They are gone. They were a forest of giant oaks; 
 but the resistless hurricane has swept over them and left only 
 here and there a lonely trunk, despoiled of its verdure, shorn of 
 its foliage, unshading and unshaded, to murmur in a few more 
 gentle breezes and to combat with its mutilated limbs a few more 
 ruder storms, then to sink and be no more. 
 
 The year is closed the record made, 
 The last deed done, the last icord said; 
 The memory alone remains 
 Of all its joys, its griefs, its gains; 
 And now icith purpose full and clear 
 We turn to meet another year. 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 INDEX TO SELECTED TOPICS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 ABSTRACT Moral Question, An . . 260 
 Abutment on the Other Side, 
 
 The 328 
 
 Act of Abraham Lincoln, The.. 190 
 
 Acts of a Drama 262 
 
 Adam's Ale 149 
 
 Admonition of Our Lord, An.. 233 
 
 Affair at Fort Sumter, The 209 
 
 Affectionate Farewell, An 50 
 
 Age Is not Dead. The 21 
 
 All Better and Happier Together 225 
 
 Ambition 79 
 
 Ann Rutledge 246 
 
 Another Year of Blessing 337 
 
 Approach of Danger, The 36 
 
 Aristocracy 327 
 
 Assumed Historical Facts 224 
 
 Attachment Toward Our Race. . 251 
 
 Attacks Made on Me, The 137 
 
 Authority From the People 73 
 
 Authority of a Higher Character 241 
 
 BALLOTS the Successors of Bul- 
 lets 99 
 
 Base Alloy of Hypocrisy. The.. 321 
 Beginning of Love With Me. The 53 
 Beloved History and Cherished 
 
 Memories 204 
 
 Best Wish You Could Make Me, 
 
 The 312 
 
 Better Prepared for the New Re- 
 lations 226 
 
 Better Than Gold 325 
 
 Better to be Separated 250 
 
 Beyond the Psalmist's Limits.. 335 
 
 Bioeraphv 17 
 
 Black Soldier, The 118 
 
 Bond of Human Sympathy.... 101 
 
 Bow to God Only 102 
 
 Breaking Down 'of Civil and Re- 
 ligious Tyrannies 22 
 
 Britchen Broke, The 240 
 
 Brothers of a Common Country. 333 
 
 But One Way 98 
 
 By no Means Excluding Females 173 
 
 CALL for Seventy-five Thousand 
 
 Militia 114 
 
 Call for Three Hundred Thou- 
 sand Men 191 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Calmness, Caution, and Forbear- 
 ance 283 
 
 Candidate for the Legislature. . 34 
 
 Capital and Labor 310 
 
 Captured Flag 85 
 
 Cause of My Country, The 15 
 
 Central Ideas 353 
 
 Character in Canes 19 
 
 Christian Commission, The.... 165 
 
 Christmas Gift 369 
 
 Coercion and Invasion 52 
 
 Commendations From Literary 
 
 and Learned Men 40 
 
 Common Cause for These Ob- 
 jects 58 
 
 Common Rights of Citizens'. . . . 120 
 
 Compliment, A 242 
 
 Compliment to Woman 84 
 
 Conferred Essential Service.... 318 
 Cooperate With the President- 
 
 Elect 244 
 
 Cordial Good Will 55 
 
 Costly Sacrifice, A 334 
 
 Counterfeit Logic 232 
 
 Crisis Came. The 350 
 
 Cure for Boils 343 
 
 DANGER in Being Misled 196 
 
 Dangerous Element, A 263 
 
 Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer 285 
 
 Dead-Head Passengers 219 
 
 Dead Loss for Jehu 49 
 
 Declaration of Independence, The 194 
 
 Declaration of Purpose 296 
 
 Definition of the Word "Liberty" 117 
 
 Dperee of Doctor of Laws .... 370 
 Demonstrated in Blood Their 
 
 Risrht to the Ballot 14 
 
 Difficult R61e, A 156 
 
 Direct Contact With the People 339 
 
 Discourage Litigation 91 
 
 Dispensing of Patronage. The. . 217 
 Distracted Condition of the 
 
 Country 54 
 
 Disturbs Outside of Political 
 
 Circles 291 
 
 Diversity of Sentiment 356 
 
 Divided House Cannot Stand. A 176 
 
 Divine Interposition and Favor. 144 
 
 Dixie 107 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Don't Shoot Too High 269 
 
 Door Has Been Open for a Year 359 
 
 ELECTION a Necessity, The 323 
 
 End near at Hand. The 126 
 
 Entitled to the Property 96 
 
 Eternal Antagonism 86 
 
 Eternal Struggle, The 295 
 
 Events Have Controlled Me.... 136 
 Everything I Say Goes Into 
 
 Prfnt 109 
 
 Extemporaneous Speaking 90 
 
 FALSE Assumption, A 264 
 
 Fight This Battle Upon Prin- 
 ciple 207 
 
 Final Triumph of Right 6? 
 
 Fool the People 100 
 
 For a Period of Three Years 132 
 
 For the Sake of the Whole Coun- 
 try 202 
 
 Foundations of New Societies. . 288 
 
 Fox River 39 
 
 Fraternal Feeling Growing 229 
 
 Full Pardon Granted 352 
 
 Fundamental Idea, A 268 
 
 GENERAL Education 78 
 
 General Grant 80 
 
 General Harrison's Birthday... 48 
 General Winfleld Scott Retired. 314 
 Generous and Prosperous Sys- 
 tem 346 
 
 Genuine Popular Sovereignty . . . 297 
 
 Getting Used to Things 95 
 
 Glad at What Has Happened . 142 
 
 Glorious Achievements 255 
 
 Glorious Consummation, A. . . 206 
 
 Glorious News 108 
 
 God Bless All the Churches. . 143 
 Good Old Maxims of the Bible, 
 
 The 311 
 
 Got to Sit on the Blister 223 
 
 Gradual Abolishment of Slavery 1: 
 
 Gradual Emancipation 199 
 
 Great Pook of God, The 197 
 
 Great Men 336 
 
 Greens Try Them on Jake.... 128 
 
 HEARTS and Homes Yet to be 
 
 Desolated 3'<2 
 
 He Got Away from Me 139 
 
 Henceforward Shall be Free.... 9 
 
 Henry Clay 245 
 
 Hideous Serpent, A 129 
 
 Home of One National Family.. 354 
 How I Earned My First Dollar. 
 
 No. 1 140 
 
 How I Earned My First Dollar. 
 
 No. 2 141 
 
 How Sound and Strong We Are. 324 
 
 How to Win Men 362 
 
 Humblest of AU the Presidents. 57 
 
 PAGE 
 
 I AM a Practical Prohibitionist. 320 
 
 I have carefully Read the Bible. 23 
 
 I Have Determined for Myself . . 275 
 
 Illustration, An 308 
 
 I Made a Prediction Only 200 
 
 I Made Temperance Speeches... 281 
 
 I Must Do the Best I Can 276 
 
 I Must Save This Government . . 216 
 
 Incidents of the War 203 
 
 Inestimable Jewel, An 254 
 
 Ingenious Sophism 211 
 
 Inoperative Document, An 266 
 
 I Now Thee Wed 317 
 
 Inside of a Gentleman, The 235 
 
 In the Garden of Gethsemane. . 26 
 
 In the Hands of the People 38 
 
 In the Union or Out of it Ill 
 
 I Shall do Nothing in Malice. . . 220 
 It Will Occur in God's Own 
 
 Good Time 259 
 
 I Will be Ready for Them 181 
 
 I Will not buy it With Pledges 147 
 
 JEWELL of Liberty in the Family 
 
 of Freedom 81 
 
 John Brown 345 
 
 Join Names of Liberty and 
 
 Union 168 
 
 Jones and Sarah Ann 158 
 
 Joyful Meeting, A 20 
 
 Judge Douglas 46 
 
 Judicial Decisions 184 
 
 Justice of My Intentions, The.. 330 
 
 KEEP My Faith With Friend and 
 
 Foe 228 
 
 Keep on Doing Our Duty 316 
 
 King Richard III 88 
 
 LABOR is the Superior of Capital 257 
 
 Landing of the Pilgrims 365 
 
 Last Leaf, The 93 
 
 Law of Nations, The 221 
 
 Leaning Towards Grant 131 
 
 Legal Inheritors of Fundamental 
 
 Blessings 35 
 
 Lever of Power, The 201 
 
 Liberty is Your Birthright 103 
 
 Like Causes Produce Like Effects 248 
 
 Lock of a Hundred Keys 185 
 
 Lost My Apple Overboard. . . . 326 
 
 MAGNIFICIENT Flag of the Coun- 
 try 174 
 
 Maintain the Contest Indefinitely 349 
 Maintaining the Guarantee. . . . 214 
 
 Making a Fizzle 341 
 
 Malice Toward None, Charity 
 
 for All 77 
 
 Material for the Work is Abun- 
 dant 210 
 
 Matter qf Dollars and Cents 398 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 PAGB 
 
 May God Superintend the Solu- 
 tion 236 
 
 Mere Matter of Policy 302 
 
 Message to the Miners. 258 
 
 Military Hero, A 31- 
 
 Misunderstanding, A 68 
 
 Moral, Social, and Political Evil, 
 
 A 261 
 
 More Colors Than One 237 
 
 More Involved Than Realized.. 239 
 More Than Baltimore Conven- 
 tions 169 
 
 Most Happy to Cooperate 150 
 
 Mr. Vallandigham 189 
 
 Music of the Union 155 
 
 Must Change Our Tactics 319 
 
 Mutual Security 64 
 
 My Angel Mother 287 
 
 My Boy, Willie 59 
 
 My Childhood Home 282 
 
 My Dissatisfied Fellow-Country- 
 men 75 
 
 My Early History 51 
 
 My Name in History 10 
 
 My Perceptions of Responsibility 
 
 and Duty 340 
 
 My Position is not a Bed of 
 
 Roses 45 
 
 My Solicitude for This Great 
 
 Country 227 
 
 My Whole Reliance in God 166 
 
 NATION Cannot Live on Injustice 177 
 
 Naturally Anti-Slavery 134 
 
 Neither a Slave nor a Drunkard 364 
 
 No Dissatisfaction of Mine 278 
 
 No Fault of Mine 175 
 
 No Friends, IS'o Pleasure 106 
 
 No Half -Way Business About it 119 
 
 No Hypocritical Pretense 231 
 
 No Mention of the word "Negro," 
 
 or "Slavery" 289 
 
 Nomination Gratefully Accepted, 
 
 The 187 
 
 No Need of War 62 
 
 None Left to Pay the Debts. . . . 213 
 
 No Parallel 290 
 
 No Prejudice Against Southern 
 
 People 198 
 
 Norway and Sweden 28 
 
 Not Entirely Unworthy 170 
 
 No Taint of Personal Triumph.. 322 
 
 Not Equal in All Respects 186 
 
 Nothing But a Noise 313 
 
 Not the Right Kind of Religion 145 
 
 OBSERVANCE of the Sabbath .... 329 
 Old Constitution Unimpaired, 
 
 The 74 
 
 On a Chase 338 
 
 Once Slaves, Now Soldiers.... 351 
 
 One Who Has Been a Victim. . . 361 
 
 Qnly Substantial Difference, The 366 
 
 TAGH 
 
 On the Lord's Side bt>o 
 
 Opposite Opinions and Advice.. 265 
 
 Ordinance of 1787 300 
 
 Origin of the Greenback 348 
 
 Our Men not Moles, or Birds. . 127 
 
 Our Support and Defense 42 
 
 Out of My Usual Line 371 
 
 Overmatch, An 47 
 
 Owen Lovejoy 160 
 
 PACIFIC Measures 153 
 
 Palpable Facts 135 
 
 Parable of the Lost Sheep 234 
 
 Parallel Case 163 
 
 Pardon and Respites 284 
 
 Party Lash and Ridicule, The.. 151 
 
 Patent Right Case, A 342 
 
 Pay the Cost of a Causeless War 44 
 
 People's Contest. A 87 
 
 Perpetual Peace and Friendship 27 
 
 Petroleum V. Nasby 182 
 
 Plain Language 16 
 
 Practical War Measure 267 
 
 Prayed for Victory at Gettys- 
 burg 195 
 
 Prayers for Both Could rot be 
 
 Answered 76 
 
 Prayers of the Pious and the 
 
 Good 222 
 
 Presentiment, A 112 
 
 Profitably Engaged 3(58 
 
 Providence not Unmindful of 
 
 the Struggle 162 
 
 Public Sentiment 12 
 
 Purposes of the Almighty, The 256 
 
 QUALITIES of a Great Army .... 367 
 Quiet Past and Stormy Present, 
 
 The 358 
 
 RADICALS and Conservatives. . . . 305 
 
 Real Issue. The 292 
 
 Reconstruction 104 
 
 Remembered by the Loved Ones 
 
 at Home 179 
 
 Renewed Trust. The 69 
 
 Renew Our Trust in God 215 
 
 Repel Force by Force 116 
 
 Responsible Through Time and 
 
 Eternity 357 
 
 Retrograde Institution, A 286 
 
 Revolutions do not Go Back- 
 ward 152 
 
 Right Makes Might 67 
 
 Righteous and Speedy Peace... 110 
 
 Rightful Masters 274 
 
 Rightful Results, The 238 
 
 Root, Hog, or Die 41 
 
 SAFE Conduct Both Ways 208 
 
 Save the Union 243 
 
 Savior's Condensed Statement, 
 
 The, ,.,,,,,,,,.,,,.,.,,,., 3Q 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 PAGE 
 
 School of Events 122 
 
 Scriptural Authority 306 
 
 Secession the Essence of An- 
 archy 72 
 
 Sensible of the Great Responsi- 
 bility 148 
 
 Sermon to Boys Little People. 161 
 
 Shakespeare 82 
 
 Shifting Scenes of the Present. 130 
 
 Shooting Over the Line 270 
 
 Signs of the Times 140 
 
 Silence the Agitator and Save 
 
 the Boy 172 
 
 Silent Artillery of Time, The... 374 
 
 Singular Occurrence, A 167 
 
 Slavery Abolished in District of. . 
 
 Columbia 115 
 
 Slavery in Bible Times 307 
 
 Slavery in Slave States 230 
 
 Slavery Must Die That the 
 
 Union Might Live 11 
 
 Small Retainer, A 89 
 
 Solemn Sense of Responsibility. 279 
 
 Solemn Vow Before God 373 
 
 Some Things Legally Right Not 
 
 Morally Right 18 
 
 Sound the Moral Trump 363 
 
 Southern Apprehension 70 
 
 Special Gratitude to God 138 
 
 Spotted Animals 331 
 
 Squatter Sovereignty 183 
 
 Squirming and Crawling About. 315 
 
 Stand by Our Duty 66 
 
 Start a Public Sentiment 347 
 
 State Against Mr, Whiskey. ... 97 
 
 Story About My Hair 157 
 
 Strangre Spectacle. A 372 
 
 Struggle at Trenton, The 60 
 
 Subjects of Great Importance.. 252 
 
 TENDENCIES to Ultimate Eman- 
 cipation 303 
 
 Their Business, Not Mine 125 
 
 Thenceforward Forever Free . . . 277 
 
 They Can Communicate With Me 355 
 
 This Little Negro Question 299 
 
 This Rock on which I Stand... 25 
 
 Fhomas Jefferson 105 
 
 Time is Everthing 193 
 
 To the Young Men 29 
 
 Towering Gfnius 37 
 
 Traitor Forfeits His Property, 
 
 The 43 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Treat it as a Wrong 29: 
 
 Treat You as My Own Neighbors 65 
 
 Trees 121 
 
 True System, The 94 
 
 Truth Needs to be Told, The ... 83 
 Two Ways of Establishing a 
 Proposition 301 
 
 ULTIMATE Law for All, The.... 304 
 Union and Fraternal Peace. . . . 205 
 Union and the Old Flag. The.. 253 
 Union Older Than the Constitu- 
 tion, The 71 
 
 Union Older Than the States, 
 
 The 212 
 
 Universal Amnesty and Univer- 
 sal Suffrage 13 
 
 92 
 
 WAIVE Minor Differences 247 
 
 War is Over, The Jerusalem.. 113 
 
 War is Terrible 178 
 
 Washington 61 
 
 We Cannot Escape History... 344 
 
 We Have Come to Dedicate. . . 159 
 
 We'll Get You Safe Across... 164 
 
 Well to be a Little Color-blind. 188 
 
 We Shall Try to do Our Duty 123 
 
 We Still Have Strength 192 
 
 What "Demonstate" Means .... 32 
 
 What do You Mean to do? 272 
 
 What We Mean to do 271 
 
 When is the War to End? 180 
 
 When the People Rise in Mass . . 56 
 Why Indiana Became a Free 
 
 State 309 
 
 Why Stand Passive? 218 
 
 With God's Help I Shall Not 
 
 Fail 24 
 
 Without Money and Without 
 
 Price 280 
 
 Women of America, The 33 
 
 Worse Than the Most Depraved 
 
 Murderer 171 
 
 YARD Full of Old Bulls. A... 124 
 
 You Are Inferior in Numbers. . . 273 
 
 5Tou Never Treat it as a Wrong 294 
 Your Race Suffering a Great 
 
 Wrong 249 
 
 You Vote Against Your Interests 
 
 and Principles 154 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 ADAMS, Mary M., 13, 159, 216, 221 
 322 332 
 
 Addison, Joseph, 152, 213. 
 
 Alexander, Dr., 37. 
 
 Aleyn, Charles, 362. 
 
 Anonymous, 11, 12, 14, 16. 26, 50, 
 61, 64, 68, 71, 85, 97, 107, 127, 
 128. 129, 136, 137, 138, 150, 156, 
 158, 167, 168, 180, 182, 212, 217, 
 241, 253, 263, 276, 281, 293, 295, 
 311, 312, 313, 321, 329, 336, 339, 
 348, 357, 361. 363. 368, 370, 374. 
 
 Armstrong, John, 265. 
 
 BAILEY, Philip James, 371. 
 
 Baillie, Joanna, 326. 
 
 Baker, Francis, 113 
 
 Banks, , 60. 
 
 Barber, John W., 194. 
 
 Barlow, Joel, 134. 
 
 Barry, Michael J., 56. 
 
 Bell, Bishop W. M., 277. 
 
 Benjamin. Park, 21. 239. 
 
 Berkley, Bishop, 181. 
 
 Boker, George Henry, 118. 
 
 Bonar, Horatius, 112. 
 
 Bradley, Mary, 69. 
 
 Prpwer. Anthony, 177. 
 
 Bridges, Madeline S., 280. 
 
 Brooke, , 87. 
 
 Brooks, James G., 141. 
 
 Bryant, William Cullen. 95, 142, 207. 
 
 232, 246, 296, 318, 343, 351. 
 Bulwer, Sir Edward Lytton, 233. 
 Burton, John, 197. 
 Burdick, Mary Livingston, 244. 
 Butler, Mrs. Frances Kemble, 252. 
 Burns, Robert, 282, 315. 
 Byron, George Gordon, Lord. 80, 119, 
 
 135, 271, 305. 
 
 CAMPBELL, Thomas, 191, 373. 
 Cary, Alice, 18. 
 Cary. Phoebe, 130, 154. 
 Cavil. , 122. 
 Channing, B. M., 188. 
 Chapman, George, 278. 
 Philrtrpss. W. Lomax. 356. 
 Churchill, Charles, 297. 
 
 Clephane, E. C., 234. 
 
 Condo, Rev. A. B., 249. 
 
 Cook, Eliza, 90. 
 
 Cornel lie, Pierre, 334. 
 
 Cowper, William, 88, 103, 117, 171, 
 
 230, 236, 256, 301, 331. 
 Coxe, Arthur Cleaveland, 146. 
 Crabbe, George, 367. 
 
 DANA, Mrs., 323. 
 
 Daniel, Samuel, 62. 
 
 Davenant, Sir William, 269, 341. 
 
 Davenport, Sir Christopher, 92. 
 
 De Lislie, Rouget, 185. 
 
 Denham. Sir John, 184. 
 
 Doddridge, Philip, 165. 
 
 Drake, Charles Rodman, 174. 
 
 Dryden, John, 39, 41, 45, 151, 211, 
 
 328. 
 
 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 67. 
 Dwight, Timothy, 205. 
 
 EDGERTON, W. A., 160. 
 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 201, 202, 
 299. 
 
 FABEE, Frederick William, 259, 290, 
 
 360, 366. 
 
 Fields, James T., 58. 
 Finch, Frances M., 111. 
 Fiske. Horace Spencer, 257. 
 Fowler, Rev. J. M., 349. 
 
 GALLAHER, William D.. 300. 
 
 Gates, Mrs. Ellen H., 20, 178, 218. 
 
 Gay. John, 275. 
 
 Gibbons. James Sloan, 210. 
 
 Gomersal. Robert, 203. 
 
 Gould, Miss Hannah F., 126. 
 
 Gould. S. B., 143. 
 
 Grannis. Miss. 325. 
 
 Gray, Thomas, 46. 
 
 HALE, Mrs. Sara Joseph, 28, 73, 
 
 220. 308. 
 Hall. Ens-ene J., 9, 96, 147, 190, 196, 
 
 223 227. 235 
 Halleck. Fi'tz Greene, 173, 209, 222, 
 
 243, 245. 
 
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 THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK 
 
 Harte, Francis Bret, 192. 
 
 Havard, William, 99. 
 
 Havergal, Frances Ridley, 24. 
 
 Hay, John, 42, 66. 
 
 Heath, Robert, 17. 
 
 Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, 155, 169. 
 
 Hemmings, , 273. 
 
 Herrick, Robert, 53. 
 
 Hill, George, 268. 
 
 Holland, J, G., 38. 
 
 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 131, 132, 
 
 226, 250, 309, 319 
 House, Ben D., 51, 287. 
 Howell, James, 52. 
 Humphries, David, 116. 
 Hyde, W. DeWitt, 229. 
 
 IRVING, Minna, 198. 
 
 JEFFREY, B. T., 63, 101. 
 Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 82, 183. 
 
 KEATS, John, 206. 
 Kennedy, , 335. 
 Kephart, Dr. I. L., 144. 
 Key. Francis Scott, 36, 114. 
 Kipling, Rudyard, 337. 
 Kurgenknabe, J. H., 93. 
 
 LAMPERTINS, , 166. 
 
 Landon, Miss L. E., 231. 
 
 Lingua. , 224. 
 
 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 29, 
 
 40, 74, 89. 124, 161, 347. 
 Longfellow, Samuel, 238. 
 Lorenz, Edmund S., 320 
 Lowell, James Russell, 10, 83, 86, 
 
 105, 200, 279, 294, 310, 344, 359. 
 
 MACKAY, Charles^ 237, 240, 267, 342. 
 
 Macleod, Norman, 215. 
 
 Manley, Charles Benjamin, 317. 
 
 Martin, W. C., 149. 
 
 Martyn. John, 189. 
 
 McLellan, Isaac, 193. 
 
 Meredith, Owen, 32. 
 
 Middletown, Thomas, 314. 
 
 Miller, Clara Lothamer, 304. 
 
 Miller, James, 65. 
 
 Miller, Joaquin, 266. 
 
 Milton. John, 25. 145. 
 
 Montgomery, James* 15, 125, 199. 
 
 Moore, Thomas, 72, 81, 292, 298. 
 
 More. Hannah, 76. 
 
 Morris, George P., 176, 346, 353. 
 
 NABB, T., 242, 283. 
 Neal, Mrs. J. C., 98. 
 Neumarck, George, 162. 
 
 OTWAY, Thomas, 172. 
 
 PABODIE, William J., 288, 354. 
 Percival, James Gates, 316. 
 Pike, General Albert, 272. 
 "Pindar. Peter" [Dr. John WolcottJ. 
 
 264. 
 Pope, Alexander, 49, 70, 77, 204, 247. 
 
 286. 
 
 Porteus, Dr. Beilby, 140. 
 Pratt, Silas G., 285, 324. 
 Prior, Matthew, 164, 186. 
 
 RALEIGH, Sir Walter, 251. 
 
 Read, Thomas Buchanan, 179. 
 
 Reddington, , 352. 
 
 Riley, James Whitcomb, 19. 
 
 Rogers, Samuel, 48. 
 
 Rowe, Nicholas, 54, 91, 163, 187, 330. 
 
 SANDS, Robert C., 84. 
 
 Savage, Richard, 355. 
 
 Scott, Sir Walter, 23, 35, 270. 
 
 Shakespeare, William, 43, 44, 47, 55. 
 
 148, 170, 175, 228, 248, 262, 284, 
 
 306, 307, 338, 372. 
 Shirley, James, 214. 
 Sigourney, Mrs. Lydia Huntley, 254. 
 Slasrenhaup, J. W., 75. 
 Smith, Mrs. Margaret, 106. 
 Smith, Samuel F., 365. 
 Spencer, Esmund, 78. 
 Sprague, Charles, 153. 
 StPdman, Edmund Clarence. 327. 
 Stillingfleet, Benjamin, 109, 120. 
 Stoddard, Richard Henry, 31. 
 Swain, Charles. 59. 
 Swift, John, 258. 
 
 TATHAM, , 289. 
 
 Taylor, Tom, 22, 57, 79, 94, 157. 
 
 Thomson, James, 208. 
 
 Tickell, Thomas, 110. 
 
 Tupper, Martin, Farquahar, 27. 
 
 WALFORD, W. W.. 195. 
 
 Wallace, W. R., 225. 
 
 Ware, Henry, Jr., 133, 274. 
 
 Warring, Anna L., 340. 
 
 Waters, Joseph G., 345. 
 
 Watts. Isaac, 30. 
 
 Whittier, John Greenleaf, 102, 104 
 
 108, 115, 121, 219, 260. 261, 291. 
 
 302, 303, 333, 350, 358, 364. 
 Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 34. 
 Work. Henry C.. 3(i9. 
 Wordsworth, William, 33. 123. 
 Wreford, J. R., 255. 
 
 YOONG, Edward, 100, 139. 
 
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 GENESIS. 
 
 
 
 I. SAMUEL. 
 
 
 
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