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“With malice toward none; with charity for all; withfirmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, letus strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up thenations wounds.”
“Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, are,ere long, must be done again…Have none of it. Standfirm. The tug has to come, and better now, than anytime hereafter.”
Mack RayPeriod OneDue Date: April 9, 2009Abraham Lincoln and His Race Relations
Introduction:
Back in the 1800’s, who would have thought that a back-country, ill-educated,and illiterate citizen of the United States could have become the sixteenth President of the United States? Abraham Lincoln took the country by storm and steered thecountry in the right direction after the Buchanan administration fell inactive to theevents that preceded the Civil War. Just in one Presidential term, the country dividedinto two separate nations over the institution of slavery, a Civil War caused mass bloodshed throughout the country, and Abraham Lincoln was given the task to mendthe fences and bring all the parties to the table to settle the differences. In keeping the
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Library of Congress,
The Abraham Lincoln Papers
, April 10, 1865. Second Inaugural Address(Washington DC)
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Letter to Illinois Senator Lyman Trumbull regarding slavery as quoted in: Paul Kendrick and StephenKendrick,
Douglass and Lincoln
(New York: Walker and Company, 2008), Page 55.
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