【正文】 re? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you can not fight always。 and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I can not be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the National Constitution amended. While I make no remendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself。 and I should, under existing circumstances, favor rather than oppose a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon it. I will venture to add that to me the convention mode seems preferable, in that it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take or reject propositions originated by others, not especially chosen for the purpose, and which might not be precisely such as they would wish to either accept or refuse. I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitutionwhich amendment, however, I have not seenhas passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable. The Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people, and they have referred none upon him to fix terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves can do this if also they choose, but the Executive as such has nothing to do with it. His duty is to administer the present Government as it came to his hands and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor. Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people. By the frame of the Government under which we live this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance no Administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years. My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time。 but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it。 while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land are still petent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, 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.相關(guān)文章 美國第40任總統(tǒng)里根告別演說中英文(全文) [20090121 10:49:49] 美國第42任總統(tǒng)克林頓告別演說中英文(全文) [20090121 10:41:56] 美國第43任總統(tǒng)布什告別演說中英文(全文) [20090121 10:38:57] 美國第32任總統(tǒng)羅斯福就職演說中英文(全文) [20090121 10:30:28] 美國第35任總統(tǒng)肯尼迪就職演說中英文(全文) [20090121 10:25:26] 站內(nèi)搜索窗體頂端窗體底端英語 寶寶 家教 奧數(shù) 高考 中考 作文 熱報排行Ranking奧巴馬就職演說音頻mp3 胡錦濤G20峰會發(fā)表講話 英文版 胡錦濤G20峰會發(fā)表講話 攜手合作同舟共 烈士公園清明節(jié)掃墓演講稿 3．15活動商場策劃方案 、維權(quán)工作總結(jié) 成績查詢Grades Query窗體頂端查詢條件： 準(zhǔn)考證號： 窗體底端光榮榜Glory List07年度獲“北京市劍橋少兒英語優(yōu)秀學(xué)員 劍橋少兒英語二級07年9月考試優(yōu)秀學(xué)員[ 劍橋少兒英語二級07年9月考試優(yōu)秀學(xué)員[ 劍橋少兒英語一級07年9月考試優(yōu)秀學(xué)員[ 劍橋少兒英語一級07年9月考試優(yōu)秀學(xué)員[ 劍橋少兒英語一級07年9月考試優(yōu)秀學(xué)員[ 07年3月劍橋少兒英語三級考試優(yōu)秀學(xué)員 07年3月劍橋少兒英語二級考試優(yōu)秀學(xué)員 巨人網(wǎng) 高考網(wǎng) 中考網(wǎng) 奧數(shù)網(wǎng) 作文網(wǎng) 英語網(wǎng) 家教網(wǎng) 幼教網(wǎng) 藝術(shù)網(wǎng) 體育網(wǎng) 冬夏令營 科技網(wǎng) 關(guān)于巨人 法律聲明 聯(lián)系我們 加盟合作 合作媒體 校長信箱 英才招聘 投訴建議 網(wǎng)站地圖 Copyright 169。 2009 All Rights Reserved 巨人學(xué)校 版權(quán)所有咨詢中心：(010)51608888　4008883456網(wǎng)絡(luò)實名：巨人學(xué)?！【㊣CP備05021166號