PERORATION OF ADDRESS AT COOPER INSTITUTE, Feb. 27, 1860 FAREWELL ADDRESS AT THE RAIL Road Station, Springfield, Feb. CLOSING SECTIONS OF FIRST INAU GURAL ADDRESS, WASHINGTON, FROM MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, Dec. FROM LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF LETTER TO HORACE GREELEY, Aug. 22, 1862. CLOSING PARAGRAPH OF MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, Dec. 1, 1862 . PAGE 60 63 67 77 85 86 90 LETTER TO THE WORKING-MEN OF CLOSING PARAGRAPH OF LETTER TO PAGE 103 FROM LETTER ΤΟ DRAKE AND OTHERS, Oct. 5, 1863 SPEECH AT GETTYSBURG, PA., Nov. 19, 1863 SECOND INAUGural Address, March 4, 1865 . Portraits of Mr. Lincoln, besides the frontispiece, are inserted opposite pages 12, 26, 38, 50, 64, 78, 92, 108. 112 From Speech at Peoria, October 16, 1854. HIS declared indifference, but, as I must think, covert zeal for the spread of slavery, I cannot but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world; enables the enemies of free institutions with plausibility to taunt us as hypocrites; causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity; and especially because it forces so many really good men among ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty, criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest. The doctrine of self-government is right,—absolutely and eternally right, but it has no just application as here attempted. Or perhaps I should rather say that whether it has such just application depends upon whether a negro is not, or is, a man. If he is not a man, in that case he who is a man may as a matter of self-gov |