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Caption: Dedication - Lincoln Hall
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n* Slavery is founded i nthe sclftohne&y of man's nature-opposition to it in hislove ofjustice. A house divided against itself cannot standi I believe this government cannot endure perma* nehtjy half slave and half free. Let us have faith that right makes m ight and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. We are not enemies, hut friends .Wkmiist Hot be enemies'. Though passion may have ^trained, it.must not break our bona# of affection. M y paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery m giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free—honorable alike in what we give and w h a t w e preserve. The signs lookbetter.The Father of Waters again go*s unvexedt o the jreaThanks tothe ^ e a t rforthwest for it. That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and t h a t gov^ e r n m e n t of the people, W the peopic,fbr the people shall not perisn from the earth. With malice t o w a r d none;with charity for all;with firmness in the right, as Cod jgives us t o see the right, let us strive on to finish the work w e a r e in. — FVom mural inscriptions.
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