The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-11-15

March I, isol.)
That there are persons in one section
or another who seek to destroy the Union
at all events, and are glad Of anv pretext
to do 1t, will neither affirm nor deny
but If there be such, need address no
word to them. To those, hotDerer, who
really toce he Union, mag non spedk.
1.-The Chief magistrate derives all his
authority from the people, and they have
conferred none upon him to fl terms for
the separation Of the states. The people
themselves can do this also If they choose;
but the executive, as such. has nothing to
do with it. HIS duty is to administer the
present government as Il came TO his hands,
and 10 transmit Il, u,timpairea By him, to
his successor.
"Why should not Mere be pattent con-
idsace IN tie ultimate justice Of the Deo-
pie ? Is there any better or equal hope u.
the ,eortd2 M..our present differences. is
either party cahoH firth Of being IN the
rightP II THE ALMIGHTY RULER OF Ma
TONS, WITH HIS Eternal TRUTH AND
JUSTICE, BE on YOUR SIDE OF THE NORTH,
OR on YOURS OF THE SOUTH, THAT TRUTH
AND THAT JUSTICE WILL SURELY PREVAIL,
BY THE JUDGEMENT OF THIS GREAT TRI-
BUNAL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
by the form of the Government I'M
der which we live, the same people have
wisely given their public servants but
little power for mischief and have, with
equal wisdom. provided for the return OF
that little to their own hands at very
short intervals. While the people retain
their virtue and vigilance. no admins
tration, by any extreme of wickedness or
folly, can very seriously iniure the Coy.
crnment in the short space of four years.
"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 OBJ.
| ject will be frustrated by taking time :;
but no good can be frustrated by il. 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 admin
istration will have no immediate power,
II 1t would to change either. If it were
admitted that you who are dissatisfied
hold the right side in the dispute, there
still is no single good reason for precipi-
tate action. Intelligence, patriotism,
| Christianity, and firm reliance on Him
who has never yet forsaken this favored
land. are still competent to adjust, in the
| best way, all our present difficulty.
I'm your hands, my dissatisfied fellow.
countrymen, and not in mine, is the mo-
mentOus issue Of civil war. TIE Gorern-
nieHt ioN not assaH yon.
| You can hare no conflict ioithoW being
| yo,rselres tie Gggressors. You have no
oath registered in Heaven to destroy the
Government; while shall have the most
solemn one TO preserve, protect and de-
fend" il.
II am 10th to close. We are not enc
mics but friends. We must not be enc
mics. Though passion may have
strained, it must not break our bonds OF
| affection.
1.-The mystic chords of memory,
stretching from every battlefield and pa
triotic grave 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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN"
| Fi'0m President Liac0ln's Second Iiaug-
uraL, March 4, 1865
| "With malice toward none, with
charity tor all, with firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see theright, let us
strive on to finish the work we are in to
bind up the nations wounds; to care for
him who shall have borne the battle, and
for his widow and for his orphan--to do
all which may achieve and cherish Just
and lasting peace among ourselves, and
with all nations
LINCOLN'S ADDRESS
| ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF GETTYSBURG,
NOVEMBER 10, 1868.
Fourscore and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth upon this continent
new nation, conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men
are created equal. Now we are engaged
in great civil war, testing whether that
nation, or any nation SO conceived and so
dedicated, can long endure. We are met
to dedicate a portion OF it as the final
resting-place OF those who here gave
their lives that that nation nigh; live.
1t is altogether fitting and proper that
we should do this.
But, in larger sense, we cannot dedi'
cate, we cannot cOnsecrate, We cannot
hallow this ground. The brave men, liz
ing and dead, ,uho struggled here, haze con-
sseratsd it far above our poaoer TO add Or
detract. The world will little note, nor
long remember, what we say here, but il
can never forget what they did here. II
IL for US, the living, rather, to be dedica'
ted here to the unfinished work that they
have thus far 80 nobly carried on. 1t Il