Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-06
READ THIS BEFORE YOU Vote.
Don't Be Afraid. It is Only Some
Things That Lincoln Said.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN august %, 1864.
Speech to an Ohio regiment):
1t 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 intelligence, that you all
may have equal privileges in the race of
life, with all its desirable human aspira-
tons, it is for this the struggle should
be maintained that we may not lose our
birthrights.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN February p,
1851. Speech at Independence Hall,
Philadelphia)
! All the political sentiments | enter
tain have been drawn so far as | have
been able to draw them from the Senti-
ments which originated and were given
to the world from this Independence
hall. have never had "a feeling, poIiti-
cally, that did not spring from the
sentiments embodied in the Declaration
of Independence.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN February 81,
1860. Speech at Cooper institute):
/ am not ashamed to confess that
twenty-five years ago | was hired
laborer, mauling rails, at work on
fiat boat-just what might happen to
any poor mans son. want every man
to have the chance in which he can bet
ter his condition, when he may look
forward and hope to be {. hired laborer
this year and the next, work for him.
self afterwards, and finally to hire men
to work for him. That is the true sys-
tem
ABRAHAM LINCOLN July l, 1854:
Most governments have been based,
practically, on the denial of the equal
rights of nen. Ours hogan by affirm
ing these rights. They said, ''some
men are too ignorant and vicious to
share in government" Possibly So"
said we, land by your system you
would always keep them ignorant and
vicious. We propose to give all
chance; and we expect the weak to
grew stronger the ignorant wiser, and
all better and happier together"
ABRAHAM LINCOLN september II,
1850. Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio):
The people of ...ese United States are
the rightful masters of both congresses
and courts, not to overthrow the Con-
stitution, but to overthrow the men
who pervert the Constitution.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN October is, 1854.
Speech at Peoria. ND:
Finally | Insist that if there is any
thing that is the duty of the whole poo
pie to never entrust to hands but their
own, that thing is the preservation and
perpetuity of their own liberties and in
situations.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN September II,
1858. Speech reported in Chicago Daily
Press and Tribune):
What constitutes the bulwark of our
own liberty and independence? 1t is
not our frowning battlements, our bris-
ting seacoasts, the guns of our war
steamers or the strength of our gallant
and disciplined army. These are not
our reliance against resumption of
tyranny in our fair land. All of them
may be turned against our libertit
without making us stronger or weaker
for the struggle. Our reliance is ia the
love of liberty which God has planted
in our bosoms. Our defense is in the
of the spirit which prizes
liberty as the heritage of all men, in all
lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit
and you have planted the seeds of de-
potism around your own doors. Accus-
toned to trample on the rights of those
around you, you have lost the genius of
your own independence and become the
fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant
who rises among you.
Monarchy itself is sometimes limited
at as a possible refuge from the power
of the people. In my present position
| could scarcely be justified were / to
omit raising warning voice against
this approach of returning despotism.