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===Ft. Sumter===
===Ft. Sumter===
On the 4th of March, 1861, Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the nation's 16th president. In his speech he re-iterated his stance, and what he believed the stance of the nation should be.
*''"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."''
*''I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."'' [http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/lincoln_address1.html]
==References==
==References==