...legal order. Lincoln does, however (three sentences before his closing) specifically indicate that "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty." Such talk of God and specific praise of Christianity can hardly be found in Lincoln's...

...identical old questions . . . are again upon you. . . . Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time . . . Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. . . . "I am loathe to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though...

...Lincoln, then fifty-one years of age, addressed an earnest appeal to the South, concluding it by saying: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors." CHAPTER VI THE SEVEN DAYS' BATTLE...

...admitted that you who are dissatisfied, hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue...

...Republican, and National Union. During his first inaugural address on Monday, March 4, 1861 he said: Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. During his second inaugural address on Saturday, March 4, 1865 he said: With malice toward...

...desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it." — Abraham Lincoln "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land" would see the nation through its "present difficulty." — Abraham Lincoln — from his first inaugural...