Show LINCOLN FORESAW POSSIBLE DANGER URGED NECESSITY FOR RESPECT FOR LAW AND ORDER words of the great emancipator especially ally significant in the turmoil of the world today in his first grent great patriotic speech now too little known kanovi n abraham lincoln forecast many of the present day political and social conditions the theme of ft this speech was the danger to american institutions that would conic collie front froin lt liln slid and the lie need for a greater respect for law tin and order in the great journal of things happening F under the sun still sold sir lincoln ivie he the american people find our account running the date of tile the nineteenth century of the lie christian era we fill filid ourselves in tile pedee peaceful ful possession of the fairest portion of the earth as regards extent of territory fertility of soil and salubrity of climate we fand ourselves under tile the government of a system of political institutions conducing more essentially to the lie ends of civil and religious liberty than any of which the lit history story of former times time tells us its we biben mounting the stage of existence found ourselves orr solves selves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings we tolled not in the acquirement or establishment of them they are a legacy bequeathed to us by once a hardy brave and patriotic otle but now lamented and departed race of our ancestors theirs was the task and nobly they performed pel pei formed it to possess themselves Aes and through themselves us of this goodly land and to uproar upon its hills bills and its valleys a political edifice of liberty and equal rights right ours only to transmit these the former by the foot of bf an invader the latter hy by tile the lapse of time and hy by tion to the latest generation kent ration that fate hall permit pet mit the world to know tills this task of gratitude to our fathers father era justice to ourselves duty to posterity and love lole for our species in general all imperatively require us falth to perform how allow then shall we perform it at what point shall we vc expect the approach of danger by aliat liat means shall we fortify against it shall we expert expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us tit at a blow never neer all the armies of europe asia anti and africa combined with nil all the treasure ilif f the earth our own excepted in their military chest with nith a Bona bonaparte for a commander could not by force take a drink from the ohio or make mak e a truck track on the blue ridge in a trial of a thousand years ears at ahat hat point Is the approach of danger to be expected I 1 st wiver it if it ener ee readies reaches us it must spring up UL amongst us it come collie front from abroad if destruction be our lot we must ourselves ourse ours hes elies be its author and till finisher As it a nallon of free men lilen wo vo must live through fh all time or die by suicide after giving some examples of the evil effects on oil the innocent as as tile the guilty which occurred in ili tile the operation of mob inoh lincoln continued 1 I know the american people are much attached to their government I 1 know they would suffer murli for its sake I 1 know they would endure evils evil long ions and patiently before they would ever think link of exchanging it for another yet notwithstanding all this it the laws lie be continually disregarded and despised it if their rights to be secure in their portions persons and property tile aie held by no better belter tenure than the lie of a mob arnob the alienation of 0 their affections I 1 from doin tile the government la Is the natural colle con quence and to that sooner or later inter it must come coine here then is in one point from which danger mut must be expected tile the question recurs ilow how shall ne notify against it the answer Is simple let every american every lover of liberty ery nellA ella lilier her to ills ilia poste posterity lItY swear by the he illi of tile the revolution nev never or to violate in the least particular the linvs laws of the lie country and never to tolerate their lotion by others As the patriots ot of 76 lid did to the support 0 of tile the declaration of independence and so to thi th support of the constitution and lulls lais let eiery cery american pledge his life lila ills property pro propel petty ty and ills his sacred honor let every man remember that to violate the law lavir Is to trample on the blood or of his bli father fallier and to tear the charter of ills hla own oan and childrens liberty let reverence for the laws be breathed brent lied by eiery american mother to tile lie lisping babe that prattles on her lap let it be taught in schools in somIn se jailes niles and in colleges col leses let it be ba written in ili primers in spelling spell hig books bud and in almanacs let it be preached prea cheil front from the lie pulpit proclaimed in legisla tile the and ou forced in conits of justice and in short let it become 0 the hie political religion of the nation and let the lie old and the cling boung the file rich and poor pool tile the grave and the gay 0 of all sexes and tongues and colors sac rahce unceasingly upon its kotars they tile the revolutionary flit fathers bers of the temple of liberty and now no that they have crumbled away that temple must tall fall unless ale e their descendants supply their places with other oilier pillars hewn flom lorn the solid quarry of solier sober reason passion ling lias helped us but can do so no wore mora it i aiau A A lincoln memorial springfield will in ili arture te our enemy reason cold unimpassioned rea brt furnish zill all the like materials for or our butare and defense let I ct tho those thoe e materials be molded into general intelligence Intelli sence sound morality und mid in particular a ree reverence rence for tile the constitution and lasand alint we le improved to the last that we remained frue free to lo the last that we revered ills name to the last that during ills his long sleep we ive permitted no hostile lios foot to pass over ur tir desver desecrate ate ills his resting p pa tie tice shall be 1 that which li to learn tile lie last trumpet awaken our washingto Washing tm upon this let the phoud fabrie fabric of 0 freedom fre rest as the rock of in casis up n I 1 as truly os 09 it has been said of the greater institution the gates of hell bell shall not prevail against ILI it |