Abraham Lincoln (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln Since the time of Washington and Franklin there has arisen no American so fully entitled to be numbered with them in the list of the world´s great worthies as Abraham Lincoln. His is a name, not for "an age but for all time," - not for one nation but for all peoples; and it is well to recall his memory and review his work, and consider those distinctive traits of character which made him the great man he was. A man really is what he is; we can know him, chiefly, by what he does, and his manner of doing it. What Lincoln had to do was the righting of a great wrong - the saving of a great nation by the removal of a great evil that was destroying the nation. To understand his work it is necessary to understand the nature of this evil, the conditions of its existence, and the difficulties attending its removal. The brief historical outline which follows will, therefore, be of use. I can vouch for it as correct in the general, though many minor and qualifying particulars are of necessity omitted. Slavery In The United States. In 1781 thirteen American colonies were united in a "Confederation." In every colony, excepting Massachusetts, slavery existed. Some of these colonies had immense territories in the Northwest which they ceded to the general government; and in 1787 the Ordinance proposed by Mr. Jefferson, of Virginia to exclude slavery forever from these territories, was passed, having received the entire southern vote. Soon after this the Constitution was adopted, to form "a more perfect union," and this Constitution contained a provision for the suppression of the African Slave trade. Through the action of their several State Legislatures the northern states were, in time, freed from slavery; and it was the general hope and expectation, entertained by the best and most eminent men of the South as well as of the North, that all the states would, by gradual steps, and without protracted delay, become wholly free. In the churches, at that time, slavery was generally tolerated only as a recognized evil, which must be put away. But man´s love of dominion over his fellow-man grows with its exercise; and the South made little effort to get rid of its "peculiar institution," while its disposition to do so grew less and less as the years went on. Then came Whitney´s invention of the cotton-gin. opening to the South new sources of vast wealth by means of slave labour an invention resulting in the increase of cotton production from half a million pounds to forty million pounds annually. A very perceptible change of tone with regard to slavery was soon noted especially in the southern pulpit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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