...struggle to maintain in the world that form and substance of government the leading object of which is to elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from shoulders; to clear the path of laudable pursuit for all and to afford all an unfettered start and...

...North had just finished fighting a war that, in Abraham Lincoln's words, was a "people's contest ... for maintaining in the world that form and substance...whose leading object is to elevate the condition of man; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all;...

...just finished fighting a war which, in President Lincoln's words, had been a people's contest . . . for maintaining in the world that form and substance...whose leading object is to elevate the condition of man; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all;...

...Congress in July 1861, he proclaimed that the union was fighting a "People's contest" for the survival of "that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men," to remove barriers to success, and to extend equal opportunity.30 His Whig vision of an energetic central...

...fixed in that condition for life." In 1862 Lincoln described the Civil War as "a people's contest ... for maintaining in the world that form and substance...whose leading object is to elevate the' condition of man; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all;...

...significance of "We the People" is pointed up by Lincoln's next statement in his Fourth of July Message: 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...

...summoned in extra session, he put before them clearly his theory of and justification for the war. " This is essentially a people's contest. On the side...whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men-to lift artificial weights from all shoulders ; to clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all...

...the war effort, Lincoln persistently describes the Civil War as "essentially a People's contest ... a struggle for maintaining in the world that form...leading object is to elevate the condition of men ... to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life." Lincoln, in a special 4 July...

...Lincoln memorably put it on Independence Day 1861: This is essentially a people's contest. On the one side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining...that form and substance of government whose leading objective is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear...

...constitutional issue of secession, Lincoln returned to the larger theme again in the same message: 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...