Abraham lincoln
L for liberty (freedom)Quotes: “That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
Summary: Everybody in the United States was a slave, but then they all rebelled, and were free forever. |
E for equality (fairness, equal opportunity)Quotes: ”Four score and seven years ago our Fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
”That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Summary: Every single person is created equal and have are own rights, that no one can take away.The nation should be ruled by the people and have their own freedom. |
U for union (joining the states into one u.s government)Quotes: “With malice toward none; with charity toward all; with firmness in the
right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.” Summary: One nation should stay together through thick and thin , and to keep on fighting till the finish. |
G for government (the organization of a COUNTRY and its people)Quotes: “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”
"Resolved: that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend, and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.” “No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.” "The Constitution which guarantees that the citizen of each State shall be entitled to all privileged and immunities of citizens in the several States?” "Again, if the United Statesbe not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it-break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?” “It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that Resolves and Ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances…” Summary: Everyone in their States should be organized in what they can't and can do. Also, everyone should be equal not one person doing more of the work. |
First inaugural address
Abraham Lincoln focussed his own suport on the North more than the South. Supporting this was the Nullification Proclamation, Clay's compromise speech, and the US Constition.
the emancipation proclamation
Issued on September 22,1862, the document freed slaves in the southern states but the boarder slaves were not freed.
The gettysberg address
The meaning and the purpose of the Civl War. Abraham Lincoln dilivered this adress on November 19, 1863.
second inaugural address
This was dilivered on March 4,1865, and the speech was making peace for the North and the South.