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Caption: Booklet - Life of President Lincoln on his Birthday (1896)
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ih m I lin union | svini it liel ie with tl p on f b 1 t and a 1 tti • vvh 11 Th >u1 h I birth, wit}) a In i rfi imiliar ocia I liix Iric tnd (>f ma rria i II eombii : give t he in; n \\ In i ia I act v t Greatest a rmv t hat a > ituti na I n marshalled to ul lue in wvr a d I biding sympathy with the p >pl the -nth. This it was thai I I him when tli iial moment had come which r quired him 1 tk 4 his reat oilier t an agital I pe >p] air iy rn into fragm< its, to tal • his inaugural address u] n his knee- even wh n surround( I by mul itud sot yreat m u and the excitement • fa it o ision, < even after the bugles had sounded the iv I mar h of the inaugural pro< ssion, and add th imi >rtant pari of these memorable words: ••In your hands, my dissatisfy I fellow- untrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of M civil war. The government will not assail 3 u. "You can have no conflict without 1 inar vourdves the aggre >rs. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government; while 1 shall hn\ • the mosl solemn one to preserve, prot< I and defend i l . ** "I am Loth to close. friends. We must not We are not enemies, but be enemies. Thou h pas sion may have strained, it must not br< ik our bonds of a ffeel ion, The mystic cord of memory, stretching fr 11 1 ev< ry battle field and patriot prove bo ever) livinj h art and hearthston< ill over this i-i-. I land < will v. 1 swell the chorus of i lie I nl n, \\ l < i tin > 1 >uchedt as surelj as t he\ vvill b < i>\ 11 1 tter an i'b of our n ' ure.
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