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Line 143: − + − + − *''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]+ + +
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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.
On the 4th of March, 1861, Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the nation's 16th president. In his address he re-iterated his stance, and what he believed the stance of the nation should be, namely non-interference with slavery where it existed, and preventing slavery to spread in the territories, and above all was his stand to preserve the Union. The substance of what he said was conciliatory, but it also mentioned the obvious:
*''"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."''
*''"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."'' [http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/lincoln_address1.html]
After communications between Fort Sumter and Charleston broke down over quietly surrendering the fort, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard knew reenforcing the fort was a matter of days. He ordered the fort shelled on April 12, 1861; the fort surrendered on April 14, the single fatality attributed to an exploding cannon fired during the final salute. Major Anderson and his force was allowed to leave on the naval supply transport whose immenent arrival sparked the battle.
The Civil War had commenced.
==References==
==References==