Lincoln's First Inaugural
- Lincoln's First Inaugural
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, delivered
March 4 ,1861 , was deeply conciliatory to Southern slave-holding interests.Abraham Lincoln touched the following points:#Strongest possible federal support for the Fugitive Slave Law (and the Service/Labour clause of the U.S. Constitution Article IV, Sec 2)
#He had just taken an oath "to preserve, protect, and defend theUnited States Constitution " which enjoined him to see that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all states.
#There would be no invasion of the South unless such were necessary for him as President to fulfill his obligation to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the federal government.
#The Constitution was established "to form a more perfect union" than the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union had been, which was "explicitly" perpetual in name and text, and thus the Constitution too was perpetual. He added that even were the Constitution construed as a simple contract, it could not be legally rescinded without an agreement between all parties.
#He had no objection to the proposedCorwin amendment to the Constitution (that had already been approved by both houses of theUnited States Congress to protect slavery in those states in which it already existed — though he thought that such was already protected by the original Constitution and that the Corwin amendment merely reiterated that which was already contained in the nation's highest legal document). (According toHenry Adams , Lincoln actually lobbied to help the Corwin Amendment through both houses.fact|date=March 2008)
#Nothing in the Constitution expressly says what either can or cannot be done regarding slavery in the territories.
#Mails would continue.Trivia
One part of his address was featured in the film "
American History X "External links
* [http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt039.html Lincoln's First Inaugural Address]
* [http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/inaug/lincoln1.htm The Avalon Project]
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