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Title: Abraham Lincoln and constitutional government
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Ulrich, Bartow A. (Bartow Adolphus), 1840- Wood, Erwin Elisha, 1848- (from old catalog) comp
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Constitutions Political science
Publisher: (Chicago) Chicago legal news
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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to pursue, would be To do untoother nations as you would that they should do unto your ownnation. SAYINGS OF MR. LINCOLN. Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men arebetter than gold. Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him whilehe is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. Let us have the faith that right makes might; and in that faithlet us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect and must prevail,though we erring mortals may fail to perceive them in advance. I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring fromthe sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. The way fur a young man to rise is to improve hlmseli everyway In- can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. Tlie reasonable man has long since agreed that intemperanceis one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of evils amOhg mankind. In the Civil War the South li.nl been plotting several years and 148
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WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN therefore had the start in actual preparation for the war which theyanticipated. They had accumulated arms, ammunition, etc., throughthe treachery of John Floyd, Secretary of War under Buchanan,Howall Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury, Jefferson Davis, who was inthe Senate, and many other officeholders in Washington. Manyowned large estates and were accustomed to outdoor sports; theywere attended by slaves, and were better drilled and prepared forwar than those of the North, who were called into service underthe Presidents Proclamation. So at first, the southerners succeededin defeating the undisciplined northerners at the battle of Bull Runand in other engagements. General Robert E. Lee, a West Pointgraduate, had been in the Mexican War, and afterwards in commandof the Military Academy at West Point.. He was an accomplishedmilitary officer and soon organized and drilled his forces, so that hehad under his control a fine, well-disciplined army of over a hundredtho

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