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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a character sketch
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Sheppard, Robert Dickinson, b. 1846 Adam, G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer), 1830-1912 Shepardson, Francis Wayland, 1862-1937. The life of Lincoln Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910. The early days of Abraham Lincoln
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Chicago : Union School Furnishing Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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that he had no disposition to with-hold from them any constitutional rights. They shouldall have their rights under the Constitution, not grudg-ingly, but fully and fairly. No more fateful or solemn inauguration of a presidentever took place than that of Abraham Lincoln on the 4th of March, 1861. Ashe stood before theCapitol, serene, brave,true to the noble in-stincts of his nature,and the promise ofhis life, resolutely seton upholding free-dom and the Consti-tution, there surgedabout him a swarmof traitors and con-spirators, whose pur-poses were but thin-ly concealed. Presi-dent Buchanan wasthere, whose irreso-luteness had permitted secession to get good headway.Chief-Justice Taney and his associates were there, whoseperverse ingenuity had formulated the Dred Scott De-cision. Generals soon to be conspicuous in the ranks ofthe rebel army, surrounded him. Seward, the great rivalwhom he had distanced, stood near. Chase, Scott, Sum-ner and Wade, who should hold up his hands in the day of
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James Buchanan. Fifteenth PresidentBorn 1791. Died 1868. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 65 battle were there, and Douglas was holding the presidentshat, though the ambition of his life had been overthrownby the man who was now the observed of all observers.He was solicitous for the safety and convenience of thenew president and defiant to the enemies of the union. The great inaugural was but the fuller statement of theviews to which he had given expression in the periodsince his election. It was conciliatory, but clear and firm.He said, I have no purpose directly, or indirectly, to in-terfere with the institution of slavery in the states whereit now exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so,and I have no inclination to do so. I hold that incontemplation of universal law and of the Constitutionthe union of the states is perpetual. I shall take care,as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me,that the laws of the union be faithfully executed in allthe states. In doing this there need

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