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I Appear, My Fellow-citizens, In Your Presence And In That Of Heaven To Bind Myself By The Solemnities Of Religious Obligation To The Faithful Performance Of The Duties Allotted To Me In The Station To Which I Have Been Called.

Slavery Is The Great And Foul Stain Upon The North American Union. A Dissolution, At Least Temporary, Of The Union, As Now Constituted, Would Now Be Certainly Necessary. The Union Might Then Be Reorganized On The Fundamental Principle Of Emancipation.

Roll, Years Of Promise, Rapidly Roll Round, Till Not A Slave Shall On This Earth Be Found.

Duty Is Ours, Results Are God's.

The Declaration That Our People Are Hostile To A Government Made By Themselves, For Themselves, And Conducted By Themselves, Is An Insult.