Abraham Lincoln Speech Excerpts about Law/Order Lyceum #politics #election #Democracy #bordercrisis
Channel: Lynn's Random Stuff
Date: 2024-02-06

Excerpts from Abraham Lincoln address to the young men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois January 27, 1838:

 ​22 years before he was elected President.

 ​ ...Good men, men who love tranquility, who desire to abide by the laws, and enjoy their benefits, who would gladly spill their blood in the defense of their country; seeing their property destroyed; their families insulted, and their lives endangered; their persons injured; and seeing nothing in prospect that forebodes a change for the better; become tired of, and disgusted with, a Government that offers them no protection; and are not much averse to a change in which they imagine they have nothing to lose. 

Whenever this effect shall be produced among us; whenever the vicious portion of population shall be permitted to gather in bands of hundreds and thousands, and burn churches, ravage, and rob provision stores, throw printing presses into rivers, shoot editors, and with impunity; depend on it, this Government cannot last. 


Photo Attribution:
File: Abraham Lincoln by Nicholas Shepherd, 1846-crop.Jpg. In Wikipedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Lincoln_by_Nicholas_Shepherd,_1846-crop.jpg

Wikipedia:
This daguerreotype is the earliest confirmed photographic image of Abraham Lincoln. It was reportedly made in 1846 by Nicholas H. Shepherd shortly after Lincoln was elected to the United States House of Representatives. Shepherd's Daguerreotype Miniature Gallery, which he advertised in the Sangamo Journal, was located in Springfield over the drug store of J. Brookie. Shepherd also studied law at the law office of Lincoln and Herndon.[3]