President Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln - The Avalon Project

It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During that period fifteen different and greatly ...

President Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861

The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the ...

Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address - Wikipedia

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell ...

Lincoln's First Inaugural (1861) - House Divided - Dickinson College

Lincoln's First Inaugural (1861) ... “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I ...

Abraham Lincoln, [March 1861] (First Inaugural Address, Final ...

This is the final version of the First Inaugural Address, which was apparently Lincoln's delivery text when he read it at the Capitol on March 4, 1861.

First Inaugural Address and Message to the Special Session of the ...

Lincoln was elected on November 6, 1860, and inaugurated the following March 4th. In between these dates, seven states of the American Union that legalized ...

President Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861

On March 4, 1861, the day Abraham Lincoln was first sworn into office as President of the. United States, the Chicago Tribune printed this special pamphlet of ...

First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 | Learning for Justice

In his first inaugural address, President Lincoln reaffirms his desire to preserve the union and not interfere with slavery.

President Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

Abraham Lincoln, in his first inaugural address, focused on shoring up his support in the north without further alienating the south, where he was almost ...

President Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 9, 1861

On March 9, 1861, The Burlington Weekly Hawk-eye printed in full President Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address in which the new president stressed the ...

Lincoln's First Inauguration (U.S. National Park Service)

Lincoln prepared to take the oath of office at his first inauguration on March 4, 1861, amid these tensest of circumstances.

Abraham Lincoln's First Inauguration

Abraham Lincoln's First Inauguration ... Shortly before Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4, 1861, a political supporter recalled the turbulent atmosphere ...

Balancing Beliefs: Abraham Lincoln's First Inauguration

In his inaugural address, he balanced his determination to uphold his beliefs and kindness to those with whom he disagreed.

Inaugural Address | The American Presidency Project

At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a ...

"The Better Angels of Our Nature": President Lincoln's First Inaugural ...

In his inaugural address, Lincoln tried to allay the fears and apprehensions of those who perceived him as a radical and those who sought to ...

Lincoln's First Inaugural Address: We Must Not Be Enemies

When Lincoln said in his inaugural address, "You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' ...

12.4 Primary Source: Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address and ...

Lincoln called a special session of Congress on July 4, 1861, to lay out his reasons for acting against the Confederacy, not as a rival nation, but as an ...

Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address | Summary & Analysis

His main goal with the inaugural address was to hold the union together and prevent civil war, which he believed would leave the country open to attack from ...

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition The Sixteenth President

In composing his first inaugural address, delivered on March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln focused on shoring up his support in the North without further alienating ...

First Inaugural Address: Defending the Union (1861) - EDSITEment

From Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861): http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps/digitalarchive/speeches/spe_1861_0304_lincoln.