This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from their shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life. Yielding to partial and temporary departures, from necessity, this is the leading object of the government for whose existence we contend.

And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or dem…

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled - the successful establishing and the successful a…

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons t…

The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer - not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular rel…

What is the end of our revolution? The tranquil enjoyment of liberty and equality; the reign of that eternal justice, the laws of which are graven, not on marb…

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society,…