{"id":188,"date":"2013-06-10T13:04:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T13:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/?p=188"},"modified":"2021-10-03T20:19:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T20:19:23","slug":"first-inaugural-address-march-4-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/first-inaugural-address-march-4-1861\/","title":{"rendered":"First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Ranking<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 36px;\">#11<\/span> on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Annotated Transcript<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/40350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;I hold, that in contemplation of universal law&#8230;.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Audio Version<\/strong><\/h3>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F98852487&visual=true\"><\/iframe>\n<h3>On This Date<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/panel\/this_date\/1861-03-04\">HD Daily Report, March 4, 1861<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>I<\/strong><strong>mage Gallery<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-188 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/first-inaugural-address-march-4-1861\/lincoln-in-1861\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/files\/2013\/06\/Lincoln-in-1861-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Lincoln in\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-478\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-478'>\n\t\t\t\tLincoln in 1861\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/first-inaugural-address-march-4-1861\/1st-inauguration\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/files\/2013\/06\/1st-Inauguration-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"st Inauguration\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-479\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-479'>\n\t\t\t\t1861 Inauguration\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/first-inaugural-address-march-4-1861\/1st-inauguration-procession\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/files\/2013\/06\/1st-Inauguration-Procession-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"st Inauguration Procession\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-480\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-480'>\n\t\t\t\tInauguration Parade (1861)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/first-inaugural-address-march-4-1861\/image-of-1861-address\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/files\/2013\/06\/Image-of-1861-address-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Image of  address\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-816\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-816'>\n\t\t\t\tLincoln&#8217;s Inaugural Address\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/first-inaugural-address-march-4-1861\/image-of-first-inauguration\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/files\/2013\/06\/Image-of-First-Inauguration-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Image of First Inauguration\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-817\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-817'>\n\t\t\t\tInauguration Day, 1861\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/first-inaugural-address-march-4-1861\/first-inauguration-cartoon\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/files\/2013\/06\/First-Inauguration-cartoon-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"First Inauguration cartoon\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-818\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-818'>\n\t\t\t\tPolitical cartoon (1861)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h3>Close Reading<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q5HoT0-48ag\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Custom Map<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msid=214923210427089848626.0004def4e79e2ae545ca4&amp;msa=0&amp;ll=38.898314,-77.009482&amp;spn=0.021843,0.029998&amp;iwloc=0004df097bb2b8fff14bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-535\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/files\/2013\/06\/First-Inaugural.png\" alt=\"First Inaugural\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msid=214923210427089848626.0004def4e79e2ae545ca4&amp;msa=0&amp;ll=38.900652,-77.009439&amp;spn=0.047559,0.082827&amp;iwloc=lyrftr:msid:214923210427089848626.0004def4e79e2ae545ca4,0004df097bb2b8fff14bc,,,0,-63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View in Larger Map<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Other Primary Sources<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/ampage?collId=mal&amp;fileName=mal1\/077\/0771000\/malpage.db&amp;recNum=0\">William H. Seward, suggested changes to First Inaugural Address, February 1861<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/service\/rbc\/lprbscsm\/scsm0280\/001r.jpg\"><em>The Corrector<\/em>, &#8220;The Inaugural&#8221;, March 4, 1861<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=nOt7au3N8FUC&amp;pg=PA433&amp;dq=Making+all+allowance+for+circumstances,+we+must+declare+the+address+to+be+but+little+better+than+our+worst+fears,+and+vastly+below+what+we+had+fondly+hoped+it+might+be.+It+is+a+double-tongued+document,+capable+of+two+constructions,+and+conceals+rather+than+declares+a+definite+policy&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=X7W4UYqoCrLG4AOfkYFo&amp;ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Frederick Douglass response to Lincoln&#8217;s First Inaugural Address, March, 1861<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/files\/2013\/06\/Alabama-reaction-1st-Inaugural.pdf\"><em>Montgomery Advertiser<\/em> editorial, March 5, 1861 excerpted in <em>New York Herald<\/em>, Monday, March 11, 1861<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/files\/2013\/06\/What-is-said-1st-Inaugural.pdf\"><em>Boston Daily Advertiser<\/em>, &#8220;What is Said of the Inaugural,&#8221; March 6, 1861<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>How Historians Interpret<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The audience could not be quite sure what the new President&#8217;s policy toward secession would be because his inaugural address, like his cabinet, was an imperfectly blended mixture of opposites. \u00a0The draft that he completed before leaving Springfield was a no-nonsense document; it declared that the Union was indestructible, that secession was illegal, and that he intended to enforce the laws . . . Seward thought the speech much too provocative. \u00a0If Lincoln delivered it without altercations, he warned, Virginia and Maryland would secede and within sixty days the Union would be obliged to fight the Confederacy for possession of the capital in Washington. \u00a0Dozens of verbal changes should be made, deleting words and phrases that could appear to threaten &#8216;the defeated, irritates, angered, frenzied&#8217; people of the South. \u00a0Something more than argument was needed &#8216;to meet and remove\u00a0<em>prejudice\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>passion\u00a0<\/em>in the South, and\u00a0<em>despondency\u00a0<\/em> and\u00a0<em>fear<\/em> in the East.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=lTQSlhUUEOQC&amp;lpg=PA1&amp;dq=david%20herbert%20donald%20lincoln&amp;pg=PA283#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Herbert Donald,\u00a0<em>Lincoln\u00a0<\/em>(New York: Simon &amp; Schuster, 1995), 283-284<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLincoln\u2019s words were so blunt, so unapologetic that his incoming secretary of state, William Seward, urged him to end on a more conciliatory note. Ironically, it is that final note that has come down through history as among Lincoln\u2019s most eloquent perorations\u2026 But the coda could not undo the content. Lincoln\u2019s speech was unstinting in its determination to suppress the slaveholders\u2019 \u2018insurrection.\u2019 It seemed to be aimed less at persuading the South to abandon secession than at persuading the North to resist it. When Lincoln reiterated that he would not touch slavery in the southern states, he was speaking, at least in part, to a northern electorate that had no taste for an abolition war. By positioning the North as the defender of the Union rather than as the invader of the South, Lincoln could not have believed he would persuade the secessionists, but he surely hoped to stiffen the North\u2019s determination to uphold the Union at whatever cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=rK0ThVhgcbAC&amp;pg=PA141&amp;dq=Lincoln%E2%80%99s+speech+was+unstinting+in+its+determination+to+suppress+the+slaveholders%E2%80%99+%E2%80%98insurrection.%E2%80%99+It+seemed+to+be+aimed+less+at+persuading+the+South+to+abandon+secession+than+at+persuading+the+North+to+resist+it&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=ja-4UaK9GrOp4APAnYGABQ&amp;ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">James Oakes, <em>The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics<\/em>, (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007), 141<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Further Reading<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>For educators:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edsitement.neh.gov\/lesson-plan\/lincolns-first-inaugural-address-we-must-not-be-enemies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NEH Edsitement, Grades 3-5, Lincoln&#8217;s First Inaugural Address<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/edsitement.neh.gov\/lesson-plan\/first-inaugural-address-1861mdashdefending-american-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NEH Edsitement, Grades 9-12, Lesson 2: The First Inaugural Address<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>For everyone:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/myloc.gov\/exhibitions\/lincoln\/presidency\/thesixteenthpresident\/multimedia\/williamsafire.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Library of Congress, William Safire (video) on Lincoln&#8217;s First Inaugural<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Om9vf6x6O8AC&amp;lpg=PA67&amp;dq=Lincoln's%20First%20Inaugural%20Address&amp;pg=PA67#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Braden, Waldo W. \u00a0Chapter 5, \u00a0&#8220;The First Inaugural Address: A Study of Strategy and Persuasion,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Abraham Lincoln: Public Speaker. \u00a0<\/em>Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988, pp. 67-80.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=5u25mVscD5MC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;pg=PA42#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wilson, Douglas L. Chapter 3, &#8220;A Custom as Old as the Government,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Lincoln&#8217;s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words.\u00a0<\/em>New York: Random House, 2006, pp. 42-70.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Searchable Text<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u2026I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever&#8212;it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself\u2026.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u2026It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union,&#8212;that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; \u00a0and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, \u00a0according to circumstances.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and, to the extent of my ability, I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it, so far as practicable, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means, or, in some authoritative manner, direct the contrary. I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend, and maintain itself.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the national authority. The power the confided to me, will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property, and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion&#8212;no using of force against, or among the people anywhere\u2026.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u2026 Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy. A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks, and limitations, and always changing easily, with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissable; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all that is left\u2026.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u2026One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute. The fugitive slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, \u00a0as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break over in each. This, I think, cannot be perfectly cured; and it would be worse in both cases after the separation of the sections, than before. The foreign slave trade, now imperfectly suppressed, would be ultimately revived without restriction, in one section; while fugitive slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all, by the other.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. \u2026<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u2026 My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well, upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. \u00a0If there be an object to hurry any of you, in hot haste, to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied, still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied, hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. \u00a0You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to \u201cpreserve, protect and defend\u201d it.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranking #11 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript &#8220;I hold, that in contemplation of universal law&#8230;.&#8221; Audio Version On This Date HD Daily Report, March 4, 1861 Image Gallery Close Reading &nbsp; Custom Map View in Larger Map Other Primary Sources William H. 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