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If the great American people will only keep their temper,
on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end,
and the question which now distracts the country
will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of
like character which have originated in this government
have been adjusted.
Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent
upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil
and in the proportionable amount of the same
which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of,
I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so
that every poor man may have a home.
That our government should have been maintained in its original
form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at.
It had many props to support it through that period,
which now are decayed and crumbled away.
Through that period,
it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now,
it is understood to be a successful one.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature
opposition to it is his love of justice.
These principles are an eternal antagonism;
and when brought into collision so fiercely,
as slavery extension brings them,
shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
We find ourselves under the government of
a system of political institutions,
conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty,
than any of which the history of former times tells us.
My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana,
in my eighth year... It was a wild region,
with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods.
There I grew up... Of course when I came of age,
I did not know much.
Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher...
but that was all.
The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim
their fugitives I have constantly admitted.
The legal right of Congress to interfere with
their institution in the states,
I have constantly denied.
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain
that this nation, under God,
shall have a new birth of freedom
and that government of the people,
by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought
forth on this continent, a new nation,
conceived in Liberty,
and dedicated to the proposition that
all men are created equal.
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to
those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect,
it is when I contemplate the cause of my country,
deserted by all the world beside,
and I standing up boldly and lone
and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,
I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
The assertion that 'all men are created equal'
was of no practical use in effecting our separation from
Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that,
but for future use.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one third of my time thinking about
myself and what I am going to say and two
thirds about him and what he is going to say.
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true;
but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures,
and I have never spoken with
intentional disrespect of religion in general,
or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
