 | Elisabeth Glaser, Hermann Wellenreuther - 2002 - 332 pages
...contest," he characterized it as "a struggle for the maintaining in the world that form of, and the substance of government, whose leading object is,...artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the path of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race... | |
 | Dan McKanan - 2002 - 312 pages
...be indirect. The "People's Contest" would not advance the liberal agenda but would simply preserve "that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men." Lincoln assumed that this cause was his religious as well as political duty, but he alluded to this... | |
 | Charles M. Hubbard - 2003 - 270 pages
...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...of the government for whose existence we contend." "Message to Congress in Special Session" (4 July 1861), Collected Works, ed. Easier, 4:438. As early... | |
 | 2003 - 260 pages
...People's contest," he asserted." On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading...unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life." He closed with the prayerful remark, "let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 pages
...drudgery. "On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, the substance of government, whose leading object is,...unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life." Setting the war as the ultimate ideological confrontation of the Whig and the Jacksonian, Lincoln dismissed... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber - 2003 - 272 pages
...government based on individual freedom — "whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men" and to "afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life." Yielding only to "partial, and temporary departures, from necessity," this was the goal of the national government.... | |
 | Philip Weeks - 2003 - 300 pages
...harmony. Hayes believed that he and Ohio Republicans deserved victory because they aimed, like Lincoln, "to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life." The 1867 Ohio election, however, was a major Republican setback. Voters rejected the suffrage amendment... | |
 | Sotirios A. Barber - 2009 - 192 pages
...whole people, beyond any example in the world." And in the same speech Lincoln said that America's is a "government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men; to lift artificial weight from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered... | |
 | Samuel Beckett - 1976 - 312 pages
...panel of the building is a quotation from Abraham Lincoln about the purpose of the Civil War: TO GIVE ALL AN UNFETTERED START AND A FAIR CHANCE IN THE RACE OF LIFE. Just inside the door, a frayed Union Army cap with a small hole blown through it sits in a display... | |
 | Brian M. Thomsen - 2004 - 390 pages
...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...of the government for whose existence we contend. I am most happy to believe that the plain people understand and appreciate this. It is worthy of note... | |
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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... 
