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Title: Lincoln : by friend and foe
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903 Hall, A. Oakey (Abraham Oakey), 1826-1898 Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886 Cole, Robert J., ed
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: London New York : Gold Medal Library
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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s, and es-pecially the right of each State to order BY FRIEND AND FOE 67 and control its own domestic institutionsaccording to its own judgment exclu-sively, is essential to that balance ofpower on which the perfection and en-durance of our political fabric depend,and we denounce the lawless invasion byarmed force of the soil of any State orterritory, no matter under what pretext,as among the gravest of crimes. In his Niagara letter, Mr. Lincoln de-clares that the control over the domesticinstitutions of the States, confirmed tothem in our Constitution and in the Con-federate Constitution not less explicitly,shall be assumed by an authority thatcan control the armies now at waragainst the United States, and trans-ferred to him who now controls the armiesand navies of the United States, and thatotherwise he will not listen to overturesof peace. In his inaugural, President Lincolnquoted from one of his own speeches, andreiterated this declaration:— I have no purpose, directly or indi-
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Sinbad Lincoln and the old man of the sea,Secretary of the Navy Welles.—From FrankLeslies Illustrated Newspaber. May 3, 1862 *&> BY FRIEND AND FOE 69 rectly, to interfere with the institution ofslavery in the States where it exists. Ibelieve I have no lawful right to do so,and I have no inclination to do so. Inow reiterate these sentiments, and indoing so I only press upon the public at-tention the most conclusive evidence ofwhich the case is susceptible that theproperty, peace, and security of no sec-tion are to be in any wise endangered bythe now incoming administration/ Mr. Lincoln now justifies the rebels indisbelieving these solemn asseverations,by proving that they were false. He nowdoes what he then declared he had nolawful right to do, and, for the sake ofre-election, confesses the inclination whichhe then disavowed. In his first message to Congress, at theextra session in the summer of 1861, Mr.Lincoln said: Lest there be some uneasiness in theminds of candid men as

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