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...issues of the war in his f1rst message to Congress. "This is essentially a people's contest," he said. "On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining...object is to elevate the condition of men— to lift artif1cial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all...

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...his turn that the Union cause was 'essentially a People's contest', the struggle to maintain a form of government 'whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men'. While asserting that 'the plain people understand, and appreciate this', Lincoln was in effect looking...

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...States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view the rights of men and the authority of the people ? This is essentially a people's contest. On the side...from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life, yielding...

...of laudable pursuit," is from the Message to Congress in Special Session, delivered on July 4, 1861. This is essentially a People's contest. On the side...from all shoulders — to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all — to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life. One may...

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...than itself. In his special message to Congress on July 4, 186i, Lincoln described the struggle for the Union: [It] is a struggle for maintaining in the...from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life. Yielding...