{"id":1487,"date":"2013-07-03T17:54:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T17:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/?page_id=1487"},"modified":"2013-07-03T18:55:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T18:55:13","slug":"war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/war\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;War&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/first-inaugural-address-march-4-1861\/\"><b>First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861)<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIn\u00a0<i>your<\/i>\u00a0hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in\u00a0<i>mine<\/i>, is the momentous issue of civil <b>war<\/b>. The government will not assail\u00a0<i>you<\/i>.<sup>\u00a0<\/sup> You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/letter-to-ulysses-s-grant-january-19-1865\/\"><b>Letter to Ulysses S. Grant (January 19, 1865)<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cMy son, now in his twenty second year, having graduated at Harvard, wishes to see something of the <b>war<\/b> before it ends. I do not wish to put him in the ranks, nor yet to give him a commission, to which those who have already served long, are better entitled, and better qualified to hold.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/first-draft-of-emancipation-july-22-1862\/\"><b>First Draft of Emancipation (July 22, 1862)<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\u201c. . .That the object is to practically restore, thenceforward to be maintained, the constitutional relation between the general government, and each, and all the states, wherein that relation is now suspended, or disturbed; and that, for this object, the <b>war<\/b>, as it has been, will be, prosecuted.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/emancipation-proclamation-january-1-1863\/\"><b>Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cNow, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary <b>war<\/b> measure for suppressing said rebellion, do. . .order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, towit:\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/letter-to-albert-hodges-april-4-1864\/\"><b>Letter to Albert Hodges (April 4, 1864)<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWhen, early in the <b>war<\/b>, Gen. Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it, because I did not then think it an indispensable necessity. When a little later, Gen. Cameron, then Secretary of <b>War<\/b>, suggested the arming of the blacks, I objected, because I did not yet think it an indispensable necessity.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/gettysburg-address-november-19-1863\/\"><b>Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cNow we are engaged in a great civil <b>war<\/b>, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that <b>war<\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/second-inaugural-address-march-4-1865\/\"><b>Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1865)<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cOn the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil-<b>war<\/b>. All dreaded it&#8212;all sought to avert it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the inaugeral address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to\u00a0<i>saving<\/i>\u00a0the Union without <b>war<\/b>, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to\u00a0<i>destroy<\/i>\u00a0it without <b>war<\/b>&#8212;seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth parties deprecated <b>war<\/b>; but one of them would\u00a0<i>make<\/i>\u00a0<b>war<\/b> rather than let the nation survive; and the other would\u00a0<i>accept<\/i>\u00a0<b>war<\/b> rather than let it perish. And the <b>war<\/b> came.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the <b>war<\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by <b>war<\/b>; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeither party expected for the <b>war<\/b>, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the\u00a0<i>cause<\/i>\u00a0of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible <b>war<\/b>, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFondly do we hope&#8212;fervently do we pray&#8212;that this mighty scourge of <b>war<\/b> may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man&#8217;s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said threethousand years ago, so still it must be said \u2018the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861) \u201cIn\u00a0your\u00a0hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in\u00a0mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail\u00a0you.\u00a0 You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors.\u201d Letter to Ulysses S. 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