【正文】 that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability, I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part, and Ishall perform it so far as practicable unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means or in some authoritative manner direct the trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none unless it be forced upon the national power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts。and the intention of the lawgiver is the members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitutionto this provision as much as to any the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases e within the terms of this clause ”shall be delivered up“ their oaths are , if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not with nearly equal unanimity frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath?There is some difference of opinion whether this clause should be enforced by national or by State authority, but surely that difference is not a very material the slave is to be surrendered, it can be of but little consequence to him or to others by which authority it is should anyone in any case be content that his oath shall go unkept on a merely unsubstantial controversy as to how it shall be kept?Again: In any law upon this subject ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not in any case surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that ”the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States“?I take the official oath today with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules。and more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend。倒是我們應(yīng)該在這里把自已奉獻(xiàn)于仍然留在我們面前的偉大任務(wù)——我們要從這些光榮的死者身上吸取更多的獻(xiàn)身精神，來完成他們已經(jīng)完全徹底為之獻(xiàn)身的事業(yè)；我們要在這里下定最大的決心，不讓這些死者白白犧牲；我們要使國家在上帝福佑下自由的新生，要使這個民有、民治、民享的政府永世長存。我們今天在這里所說的話，全世界不大會注意，也不會長久地記住，但勇士們在這里所做過的事，全世界卻永遠(yuǎn)不會忘記。但是，從更廣泛的意義上說，這塊土地我們不能夠奉獻(xiàn)，不能夠圣化，不能夠神化。烈士們?yōu)槭惯@個國家能夠生存下去而獻(xiàn)出了自己的生命，我們來到這里，是要把這個戰(zhàn)場的一部分奉獻(xiàn)給他們作為最后安息之所。我們正從事一場偉大的內(nèi)戰(zhàn)，以考驗(yàn)這個國家，或者任何一個孕育于自由和奉行上述原則的國家是否能夠長久存在下去。倒是我們應(yīng)該在這里把自己奉獻(xiàn)于仍然留在我們面前的偉大任務(wù)——我們要從這些光榮的死者身上汲取更多的獻(xiàn)身精神，來完成他們已經(jīng)完全徹底為之獻(xiàn)身的事業(yè)；我們要在這里下定最大的決心，不讓這些死者白白犧牲；我們要使國家在上帝福佑下得到自由的新生，要使這個民有、民治、民享的政府永世長存。我們今天在這里所說的話，全世界不大會注意，也不會長久地記住，但勇士們在這里所做過的事，全世界卻永遠(yuǎn)不會忘記。但是，從更廣泛的意義上來說，這塊土地我們不能夠奉獻(xiàn)，不能夠圣化，不能夠神化。烈士們?yōu)槭惯@個國家能夠生存下去而獻(xiàn)出了自己的生命，我們來到這里，是要把這個戰(zhàn)場的一部分奉獻(xiàn)給他們作為最后安息之所?，F(xiàn)在我們正從事一場偉大的內(nèi)戰(zhàn)，以考驗(yàn)這個國家，或者任何一個孕育于自由和奉行上述原則的國家是否能夠長久存在下去。and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall notperish from the 亞伯拉罕that from these honored dead, we takeincreased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measureof devotion。but if there be such, i need address no word to those, however, who really love the union may i not speak? all profess to be content in the union if all constitutional rights can be it true, then, that any right plainly written in the constitution has been denied? i think , the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the audacity of doing , if you can, of a single instance in which a plainly written provision of the constitution has ever been by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution。and while i do not choose now to specify particular acts of congress as proper to be enforced, i do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand unrepealed than to violate any of them trusting to find impunity in having them held to be hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the constitution the union of these states is is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own to execute all the express provisions of our national constitution, and the union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument : if the united states be not a government proper, but an association of states in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? one party to a contract may violate itbut does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that in legal contemplation the union is perpetual confirmed by the history of the union union is much older than the was formed, in fact, by the articles of association in was matured and continued by the declaration of independence in was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen states expressly