Excerpt from Late Addresses of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865: Second Inaugural, Inauguration; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources In these words there is no exultation nor self-conceit. Mr Lincoln enters upon his new term with a solemn sense that he has a difficult work to finish; a trust to execute full of onerous and perplexing duties and responsibilities. He cannot help recurring to the inauguration of four years ago, when he made a journey of peril from Springfield to Washington; when his life was in danger if he passed publicly through Baltimore; when Washington was swarming with traitors; when the retiring President was looking complacently at the ruin he had wrought; when State after State wasrising in rebellion, and fort after fort was falling into the hands of rebels; when the little remnant of an army left to us - no bigger than a brigade - was hastily summoned to defend the capital; and when the hearts of all patriots were shrinking at the prospect of a civil war that had been made inevitable by the course of Buchanan and his friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.