Address On the Life And Character of Abraham Lincoln
The book Address On the Life And Character of Abraham Lincoln was written by author Richard Stockton Field Here you can read free online of Address On the Life And Character of Abraham Lincoln book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Address On the Life And Character of Abraham Lincoln a good or bad book?
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His task was finished. He had lived to see the last strong- hold of rebellion surrendered, its last battle fought. He had lived to see slavery perish, and the Union saved. It was right that he should now go to his reward ; and that after so many toils, and grief*^, and burdens, and anxieties, he should have a heavenly rest. He seemed to have had a presenti- ment that he would not outlive the reljellion. "When it is over, " he said more than once, " My work is done. I never shall live out the fo...ur years of my term. " And as early as 1859, he seemed to have felt that his struggle with slavery was a death struggle and might cost him his life. ''Broken by it, " said he, "I too may be ; bow to it, 1 never will. The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause which I deem to be just; it shall not deter me. \\' ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly un- Avorthy of its Almighty architect, it is when 1 contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world besides, and I standing up boldly and alone, and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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