I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

Labor is the true standard of value.

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.