lincoln lyceum address text

His story is very short; and is, perhaps, the most highly tragic, of any thing of its length, that has ever been witnessed in real life. hurricane has swept over them, and left only, here and there, a Let reverence Murders, lynching, and vigilantism were dominating the news. It will in future be our enemy. they were to be immortalized; their names were to be transferred of revenge, instead of being turned against each other, were of this mobocractic spirit, which all must admit, is now abroad editors, and hang and burn obnoxious persons at pleasure, and for the time, in a great measure smothered and rendered inactive; are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former, nor the The experiment is successful; and thousands have won their deathless names in making it so. for our future support and defence.--Let those materials be to negroes, from negroes to white citizens, and from these to It would be tedious, as well as useless, to recount the horrors of all of them. 0:00 / 21:42 Introduction Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum LearnOutLoud 71.5K subscribers Subscribe 15K views 7 years ago Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, January. Even then, they cannot be so universally of the State: then, white men, supposed to be leagued with the Meet our Contributing Editors The question then, is, can that gratification be found in supporting and maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others? Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural So "The Whole Affair Seems the Work of a Madman", John Brown and the Principle of Nonresistance. The list of its friends is daily swelled by the additions of fifties, of hundreds, and of . Gerhardt discusses the Lincoln speech in his book, but he never alludes to the Clay speech. (A year earlier he had attacked that lawless and mobocratic spiritwhich is already abroad in the land.) In the midst of his ostensibly nonpartisan address, Lincoln slyly alluded to the danger posed by a coming Caesar, a man of ambition and talents who would ruthlessly pursue fame and power, overthrowing democratic institutions to achieve his ends. But this state of feeling must fade, is fading, has faded, with the force of circumstances, the basest principles of our nature, Never! ", Commentary existed heretofore; and which are not too insignificant to merit It denies that it is glory enough to serve under any chief. law, in a very short time afterwards. the success of that experiment. This field of glory is harvested, and the crop is already appropriated. Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? male had been a participator in some of its scenes. While ever a state of feeling, such as this, shall universally, or even, very generally prevail throughout the nation, vain will be every effort, and fruitless every attempt, to subvert our national freedom.

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