"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it."

"I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence."

"No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty-none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned."

"Let us have faith that right makes might; and, in that faith, let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it."

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"There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law."

"Many great and good men, sufficiently qualified for any task they may undertake, may ever be found, whose ambition would aspire to nothing beyond a seat in Congress, a gubernatorial, or a Presidential chair; but such belong not to the family of the lion or the tribe of the eagle."

"Nowhere in the world is presented a Government of so much liberty and equality."

X X

"Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, and patriotic men are better than gold."

"Let none falter who thinks he is right.”

"All that I am, all that I hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

X X

"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him."

"Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation."

"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem."

"Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-opposition to it in his love of justice."

"Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."

"If I live, this accursed system of robbery and shame in our treatment of the Indians shall be reformed."

"This Government must be preserved in spite of the acts of any man, or set of men."

"Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her."

"Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing Government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and sacred righta right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."

"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasures of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not, by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of

a thousand years. At what point, then, is this approach of danger to be expected? I answer, If it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It can not come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide."

"Passion has helped us [to preserve our free institutions], but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason-cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason-must furnish all the materials for our support and defense. Let those materials be molded into general intelligence, sound morality, and, in particular, a reverence for the Constitution and the laws; and then our country shall continue to improve, and our Nation, revering his name, and permitting no hostile foot to pass or desecrate his resting-place, shall be that to hear the last trump that shall awaken our WASHINGTON. Upon these let the proud fabric of freedom rest as the rock of its basis, and as truly as has been said of the only greater institution, "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.""

MR. LINCOLN'S TEMPERANCE

ADDRESS.*

ALTHOUGH the temperance cause has been in progress for nearly twenty years, it is apparent to all that it is just now being crowned with a degree of success hitherto unparalleled.

The list of its friends is daily swelled by the addition of fifties, hundreds, and of thousands. The cause itself seems suddenly transformed from a cold, abstract theory to a living, breathing, active, and powerful chieftain, going forth "conquering and to conquer." The citadels of his great adversary are daily being stormed and dismantled; his temples and his altars, where the rites of his idolatrous worship have long been performed, and where human sacrifices have long been wont to be made, are daily desecrated and deserted. The trump of the conqueror's fame is sounding from hill to hill, from sea to sea, and from land to land, and calling millions to his standard at a blast.

For this new and splendid success we heartily rejoice. That that success is so much greater now than heretofore, is doubtless owing to rational causes; and if we would have it continue, we shall do well to inquire what those causes are.

* Delivered before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society, at the Second Presbyterian Church, Springfield, Ill., February 22, 1842.