- 22 Feb 2019 13:12
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February 22, Friday
“I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence,” Mr. Lincoln says in the Washington’s Birthday celebration at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. “It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all men should have an equal chance.” He observes that there “is no need of bloodshed and war,” and there will be none unless they are forced upon the government. From Philadelphia Mr. Lincoln journeys to Harrisburg, where he speaks again, this time on preserving peace if it can be done “consistently with the maintenance of the institutions of the country.”
The President-elect has now made his speeches, many of them unimportant and some that appeared downright astonishing when he spoke of nothing going wrong. Southern papers were quick to jump on his words about an “artificial crisis.” After all, the Confederacy is not a phantom.
At the Jones House in Harrisburg, Lincoln learns that as no delegation from Baltimore has arrived, plans for the trip to Washington have been revised to attempt to avoid any possible difficulty in that pro-Southern city. Leaving the hotel, Lincoln wearing an overcoat and with a soft wool hat stuffed into his pocket, joins Ward Hill Lamon, old-time friend and unofficial bodyguard, aboard a special train, leaving the remainder of the party to come on as planned.
In Charleston the people celebrate Washington’s Birthday just as they do in Philadelphia. Governor Pickens speaks and there are parades of military companies.
Far out in San Francisco a mass meeting declares itself in support of the Union.
“I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence,” Mr. Lincoln says in the Washington’s Birthday celebration at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. “It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all men should have an equal chance.” He observes that there “is no need of bloodshed and war,” and there will be none unless they are forced upon the government. From Philadelphia Mr. Lincoln journeys to Harrisburg, where he speaks again, this time on preserving peace if it can be done “consistently with the maintenance of the institutions of the country.”
The President-elect has now made his speeches, many of them unimportant and some that appeared downright astonishing when he spoke of nothing going wrong. Southern papers were quick to jump on his words about an “artificial crisis.” After all, the Confederacy is not a phantom.
At the Jones House in Harrisburg, Lincoln learns that as no delegation from Baltimore has arrived, plans for the trip to Washington have been revised to attempt to avoid any possible difficulty in that pro-Southern city. Leaving the hotel, Lincoln wearing an overcoat and with a soft wool hat stuffed into his pocket, joins Ward Hill Lamon, old-time friend and unofficial bodyguard, aboard a special train, leaving the remainder of the party to come on as planned.
In Charleston the people celebrate Washington’s Birthday just as they do in Philadelphia. Governor Pickens speaks and there are parades of military companies.
Far out in San Francisco a mass meeting declares itself in support of the Union.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke
—Edmund Burke