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Title: Abraham Lincoln and his last resting place;
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Edward S., (from old catalog) comp
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: (Springfield, Schnepp & Barnes, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ot in mine, isthe momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.Vou can have no conllict without being yourselves the aggressors. Youhave no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shallhave the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. I am loathto close. We are not enemies, but friends. The mystic cords of memory,stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heartand hearthstone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of theUnion when again touched, as they surely will be, by the better angels ofour nature. With infinite patience and uneqtialed forbearance and sagacity,Air. Lincoln strove to avert war, btit when, on April 12, 18G1, the rebelbatteries were opened upon Fort Sumter, forbearance was no longerpossible, and, on the 15th day of April, the pen that had only beenused to counsel moderation, to urge loyalty, penned a proclamationcalling for seventy-live thousand men, and the Civil War was begun.
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ITliMC VATLT AT OAK I11I)(JE The remains of President Lincoln and his son, Willie, who died inWashington, were placed in this vault May 4, 1S65. The popular government had been called an experiment. Two pointsof the experiment had already been settled: The government had beenestablished and it had Ijccn administered. One point remained to beestablished: Its successftil maintenance against a formi(lal)le internalattempt to overthrow it. Congress abl)- supported Mr. Lincoln. ItI)lacc(l at his disposal five hundred million dollars and gave him libertyto call out half a million men. During all the years of that long, sadwar there were loyal hearts among his admirers that held up the handsof their President, but the crowning personality, the strong, pervading,directing, controlling spirit was that of Abraham Lincoln, whetherwatching the progress of events from his almost beleagtiered capital orwhile visiting and mingling with his army at the front. ABRAHAM LINCOLN and HIS LAST resting plac

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