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Abraham Lincoln Inaugurated
By MERTON T. AKERS
UPI Correspondent
"We are not enemies, but
friends."
President Lincoln was clos
ing his inaugural address soon
after noon on the sunny, cool
day of March 4, 1801.
"Though passion may have
strained, it must not break
our bonds of affection."
Lincoln was talking across
the heads of the 25,000 gath
ered on the Capitol lawn. He
was hoping to be heard by
the people of seven southern
states already out of the Un
ion and the seven others still
trying to decide which side
to join. The hour was late,
but not too late, he was say
ing in the twangy mid western
voice which he had learned
on the campaign stump to
throw to the last fringe of
crowd.
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"The mystic chords of mem
ory, stretching from every
battlefield, and every patriot
grave, to every living heart
and hearthstone, all over this
land, will yet swell the chorus
of the Union, when again
touched, as surely they will
be, .by the better angels of
our nature."
A few minutes before he
had expressed the hope there
would be no war but he had
no words of appeasement for
the South.
"In your hands, my dissat
isfied countrymen, and not
in mine, is the momentous is
sue of civil war . . .You can
have no conflict without be
ing yourselves the aggres
sors." And if war came
"Suppose you go to war,
you cannot fight always; and
when, after much loss on both
sides, and no gain for either,
you cease fighting, the identi
cal old questions of inter
course are again upon you
And now some firmer
words:
The power confided to me
will be used to hold, occupy
and possess the property and
places belonging to the gov'
ernment, and to collect the
duties and imposts; but be
yond what may be necessary
for those objects, there will
be no invasion no using of
force against, or among the
people anywhere."
At long last, the gaunt
freshly bearded man had
broken his silence of four
months. It was too late to
avert secession but perhaps
early enough to avoid war.
He folded the manuscript.
Chief Justice Roger Taney.
bent, shrunken, looking like
galvanized corpse," ad
ministered the oath of office,
shaking with age and emo
tion.
Address Scanned Closely
Artillery boomed a salute
and Lincoln was the 16th
president.
Probably no other inaugur
al address ever was as closely
scanned as Lincoln's.
Everybody read it in his
own light.
To Stephen . A. Douglas,
Lincoln's presidential oppo
nent four months before and
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LINCOLN INAUGURATED President
Abraham Lincoln was closing his inaugural
address at Washington, D.C., with the words,
"We are not enemies, but friends." A few
minutes before he had expressed hope that
there would be no war, but he had no
words of appeasement for the South. Finally
he said that "the power confided to me will
be used to hold, occupy 'and possess the
properly and places belonging in the gov
ernment, and to collect the duties and im
posts . . ." In the above drawing, Lincoln,
center, waves his stovepipe hat to the crowd
as he drives to the still unfinished Capitol
to take the oath as 16th President.
(UPI Telephoto)
who held Abe'i now itove 1 a prophecy.
pipe- hat during the address,
said:
"It is a peace offering, rath
er than a war message."
The Charleston, S. C, Mer
cury accepted it as a "declar
ation of war."
Stock prices fell on Wall
St.
A group of southern lead
ers in Wasnington wrote to
the Moutgomcry government:
"We are all agreed that it
is Lincoln's purpose at once
to attempt the collection of
the revenue, to reinforce
Fort (s) Sumter and Pickens,
and to retake the other places.
He is a man of will and firm
ness. His cabinet will yield
to him with alacrity."
Abraham Lincoln and James
Buchanan, now an ex-presi
dent, rode back along Penn
sylvania Ave. to the White
House in an open barouche.
"If you are as happy, my
dear sir," Buchanan said to
Lincoln on the White House
steps, "on entering this house
as I am leaving it and return
ing home, you are the happi
est man in the world."
Harriet Lane, Buchanan's
pretty niece and hostess, had
left a hot dinner on the White
House kitchen cookstove for
the Lincolns.
For Mary Todd Lincoln
the entry . into . the White
House was the fulfillment of
Back in '58 when Lincoln
and Douglas were debating
for a scnatorship in Illinois,
Henry Villard, a young re
porter for the New York Her
ald, recalled meeting Lincoln
at a wayside railroad station
west of Springfield. A show
er drove therft into an empty
boxcar where they squatted
and talked until train time.
Villard quoted Lincoln:
"Mary insists that I am going
to be senator and president of
the United Slates. Just think
of such a sucker as me as
president."
Some had thought t h e
South would try to prevent
Lincoln from being inaugur
ated and LI. Gen. Winfield
Scott posted soldiers in all
strategic spots around the
Capitol. Riflemen watched
from the windows of the Cap
itol. Fifty infantrymen were
under the platform. Two bat
teries of artillery were drawn
in position to rake the crowd
on the lawn, while regulars
and District of Columbia mil
itiamen preceded and follow
ed the presidential carriage
in the parade. Other soldiers
manned windows and roof
tops along the route of the
march on Pennsylvania Ave.
Squads of regular cavalry
blocked the side streets.
But not a single incident
marred the day.
That night Lincoln, with
Mayor Berret, led the grand
march at the Union Ball held
in a new temporary building
in Judiciary Square. He
shook hands for two hours
and 15 'minutes, wearing
white kid gloves this time
not the black ones which had
raised the eyebrows of New
York society women at the
opera in New York.
Mrs. Lincoln, wearing a
blue dress, marched with Sen.
Douglas, a former . admirer,
and she danced a quadrille
with him. Lincoln did not
dance.
Few of the southerners
who had been prominent in
Washington society were at
the ball. Many had gone back
home. Those who remained
stayed away. The guests larg
ely came from the North and
West.
The pageantry over, Lin
coln turned to affairs of state.
His first task came even be
fore he took the oath. That
morning a letter from Maj.
Robert Anderson came to the
outgoing secretary of war and
was saved for Lincoln.
The message said that sup
plies at Ft. Sumter were
dwindling; South Carolina
was strengthing its batteries
ringing the fort. The implica
tion was that he could not
hold out much longer.
Lincoln went to work.
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of $1,826,957.72.
"The employees' benefit
program was adopted in 1946
in recognition of the employ
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progress," Ford said.
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Washington -01PU- Caroline
Kennedy's two pet hamsters,
Debby and Billy, escaped
from their cages Saturday and
were still at large today.
White House Press Secretary
Pierre Salinger said he believ
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where in the White House or
on the grounds.
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