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Address to the Republican Banquet in Chicago, Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
December 10, 1856
We have another annual Presidential Message. Like a rejected lover, making
merry at the wedding of his rival, the President felicitates hugely over the
late
Presidential election. He considers the result a signal triumph of good
principles
and good men, and a very pointed rebuke of bad ones. He says the people did
it.
He forgets that the "people," as he complacently calls only those who voted
for
Buchanan, are in a minority of the whole people, by about four hundred
thousand
voters— one full tenth of all the voters. Remembering this, he might perceive
that
the "Rebuke" may not be quite as durable as he seems to think— that the
majority
may not choose to remain permanently rebuked by that minority.
The President thinks the great body of us Fremonters, being ardently attached
to
liberty, in the abstract, were duped by a few wicked and designing men. There
is a
slight difference of opinion on this. We think he, being ardently attached to
the
hope of a second term, in the concrete, was duped by men who had liberty every
way. He is in the cat’s paw. By much dragging of chestnuts from the fire for
others
to eat, his claws are burnt off to the gristle, and he is thrown aside as
unfit for
further use. As the fool said to King Lear, when his daughters had turned him
out
of doors, "He’s a shelled pea’s cod."
So far as the President charges us "with a desire to change the domestic
institutions
of existing States;" and of "doing everything in our power to deprive the
Constitution and the laws of moral authority," for the whole party, on
belief, and
for myself, on knowledge, I pronounce the charge an unmixed, and unmitigated,
falsehood.
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can
change the government, practically just so much. Public opinion, on any
subject,
always has a "central idea," from which all its minor thoughts radiate. That
"central
idea" in our political public opinion, at the beginning was, and until
recently has
continued to be, "the equality of men." And although it was always submitted
patiently to whatever of inequality there seemed to be as matter of actual
necessity,
its constant working has been a steady progress towards the practical
equality of
all men. The late Presidential election was a struggle, by one party, to
discard that
central idea, and to substitute for it the opposite idea that slavery is
right, in the
abstract, the workings of which, as a central idea, may be the perpetuity of
human
slavery, and its extension to all countries and colors. Less than a year ago,
the
Richmond Enquirer, an avowed advocate of slavery, regardless of color, in
order
to favor his views, invented the phrase, "State equality," and now the
President, in
his Message, adopts the Enquirer’s catch-phrase, telling us the people "have
asserted the constitutional equality of each and all of the States of the
Union as
States." The President flatters himself that the new central idea is
completely
inaugurated; and so, indeed, it is, so far as the mere fact of a Presidential
election
can inaugurate it. To us it is left to know that the majority of the people
have not
yet declared for it, and to hope that they never will.
All of us who did not vote for Mr. Buchanan, taken together, are a majority
of four
hundred thousand. But, in the late contest we were divided between Fremont and
Fillmore. Can we not come together, for the future. Let every one who really
believes, and is resolved, that free society is not, and shall not be, a
failure, and
who can conscientiously declare that in the past contest he has done only
what he
thought best— let every such one have charity to believe that every other one
can
say as much. Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be;
and with steady eye on the real issue, let us reinaugurate the good old
"central
ideas" of the Republic. We can do it. The human heart is with us— God is with
us. We shall again be able not to declare, that "all States as States, are
equal," nor
yet that "all citizens as citizens are equal," but to renew the broader,
better
declaration, including both these and much more, that "all men are created
equal."
The Declaration of Independenc
http://www.founding.com/declare/index.cfm
ABOUT THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/abt_declar.html
The complete Thomas Jefferson Papers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html
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A vote for Bush or Gore is a vote to continue Clinton policies!
A vote for Buchanan is a vote to continue America!
Therefore a vote for Gore or Bush is a wasted vote for America!
Don't waste your vote! Vote for Patrick Buchanan!
Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a
snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become
nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey...
Patrick Buchanan
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