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Title: Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Chicago : Illustrated Booklet Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ry in the Territories? The Con-stitution does not expressly say. From questionsof this class spring all our constitutional con-troversies, and we divide upon them into majori-ties and minorities. *Tf the minority will not acquiesce, the majoritymust, or the government must cease. There isno alternative for continuing the government butacquiescence on the one side or the other. If aminority in such a case will secede rather thanacquiesce, they make a precedent, which, in turn,will ruin and divide them; for a minority of theirown will secede from them whenever a majorityrefuses to be controlled by such a minority: forinstance, why not any portion of a new confeder-acy, a year or two hence, arbitrarily secede again,precisely as portions of the present Union nowclaim to secede from it? All who cherish dis-union sentiments are now being educated to theexact temper of doing this. Is there such perfectidentity of interests among the states to com-pose a new L^nion as to produce harmony only,
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FORD S THEATRE, IN WHICH LINCOLN WAS SHOT BYBOOTH ABRAHAM LINCOLN 103 and prevent secession? Plainly the central ideaof secession is the essence of anarchy. One section of our country believes slavery isright, and ought to be extended; while the otherbelieves it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.And this is the only substantial dispute. Physi-cally speaking, we cannot separate; we cannotremove our respective sections from each other,nor build an impassable wall between them. Ahusband and wife may be divorced, and go out ofthe presence and beyond the reach of each other;but the different parts of our country cannot dothis. They cannot but remain face to face; andintercourse, either amicable or hostile, must con-tinue betvv-een them. Is it possible, then, to makethat intercourse more advantageous or more satis-factory after separation than before? Can aliensmake treaties easier than friends can make laws?Can treaties be more faithfully enforced betweenaliens than laws can among fri

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