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Caption: Dedication - Lincoln Hall
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H Slavery is founded intheffeMtahncS*of rn&jft nature-opposition to it in lib love of justice. A house divided against itself cannot stand'. I fcelicve this government cannot endure permanentjy halfslave and half free. L e t us have faith that right m a k e s m i g h t and in that faith let us to the end dare to d o our d u t y as w e understand it. I hold that,in. contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. W e are not enemies, h u t friends .Wkmust not be enemies'. Though passion rnay have ^trained, it must not break our bond? of affection. M y paramount object in this struggle is to save thelinion,and is not either to save or to d e s t r o y slavery In giving freedom t o the slave w e assure f r e e d o m t o t h e free—honorable alike in what we give a n d w h a t w e p r e s e r v e . The signs look hctter.The Father of Waters again £o e ^ u n v e x e d t o t h e >sea.Thanks tothe ^reat Worthwest for it. T h a t this n a t i o n , u n d e r God, shall have a n e w b i r t h of f r e e d o m ; a n d t h a t £ov^ e r n m e n t of the people,W the peop]c,fbr the people shall not perisn from the earth. With malice t o w a r d n o n e ; w i t h charity^ for a l h w i t h firmness in the right, as Cod gives u s t o see, t h e right, let u s strive on to finish the w o r k w e a r e i n . «• From mural inscriptions.
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