Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address Gap Text Quiz Game | Student Handouts
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Beginning of Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
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Fellow citizens of the United States:
In compliance with a
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believe
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as old as the
government itself, I appear before you
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address you
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prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, to
be
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by the President "before he enters on the
execution of his
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I do not consider it necessary, at present, for
me
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discuss those matters of administration about
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anxiety, or excitement.
Apprehension seems to exist among the
people of
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Southern States, that by the accession of
a Republican Administration,
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property, and
their peace, and personal security, are to be
endangered.
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has never been any reasonable
cause for such apprehension. Indeed,
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most ample
evidence to the contrary has all the while
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been open to their inspection. It is found in
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all
the published speeches of him who now addresses
you. I
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but quote from one of those speeches when
I declare
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"I have no purpose, directly or
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institution of slavery
in the States where it exists. I
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I have no lawful
right to do so, and I
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no inclination to do so."
Those who nominated and elected
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did so with full
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and
that
believe
their
many similar
declarations, and had never recanted them. And more
than this, they placed in the platform, for my
acceptance, and as a law to themselves, and to me, the
clear and emphatic resolution which I now read...
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