The Life and Writings of ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Lincoln warned the Southern States in his inaugural address: “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you… You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.” and in his address at Gettysburg, he said “… we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here… It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly ad-vanced.”
Examining the whole life of the great American president, the author gives true ac-counts supported by Lincoln’s own writings as well as important details of his...