Lincoln's Undying Words - Chicago History Museum

[RJNorton]

Many thanks to Reignette for sending this notice. A new exhibit opened in April at the Chicago History Museum.

http://www.lincolnsundyingwords.com

Exhibition hours and run: Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, 12 to 5 pm. From April 9, 2016 through February 20, 2017.

The actual bed in which Lincoln died is at this museum. There is a nice photo of it here.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Nice photo indeed. Is that also the original Chappel painting?

[RJNorton]

(04-13-2016 04:47 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Is that also the original Chappel painting?

Yes.

[LincolnMan]

Love the theme and title of the exhibit.

[ELCore]

Thanks, Roger.

Quoting from that website:

Quote:In 1860, Abraham Lincoln takes office as a political moderate. While he firmly opposes slavery on moral and political grounds, he does not publicly call for its abolition, for fear of revolutionary consequences....

Unless I'm mistaken, didn't Lincoln himself explain in his Cooper Union speech that his position was the conservative position?

[RJNorton]

(04-13-2016 07:12 PM)ELCore Wrote:  Unless I'm mistaken, didn't Lincoln himself explain in his Cooper Union speech that his position was the conservative position?

He tried to separate his own position and that of the Republicans from the radical John Brown. He said, "You charge that we stir up insurrections among your slaves. We deny it; and what is your proof? Harper's Ferry! John Brown!! John Brown was no Republican; and you have failed to implicate a single Republican in his Harper's Ferry enterprise."

(Not sure if my reply is what you were looking for, Lane)

[ELCore]

I have found it.

Quote:But you say you are conservative -- eminently conservative -- while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who framed the Government under which we live;'' while you with one accord reject, and scout, and spit upon that old policy, and insist upon substituting something new. True, you disagree among yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old policy of the fathers. Some of you are for reviving the foreign slave trade; some for a Congressional Slave-Code for the Territories; some for Congress forbidding the Territories to prohibit Slavery within their limits; some for maintaining Slavery in the Territories through the judiciary; some for the "gur-reat pur-rinciple'' that "if one man would enslave another, no third man should object,'' fantastically called "Popular Sovereignty;'' but never a man among you in favor of federal prohibition of slavery in federal territories, according to the practice of "our fathers who framed the Government under which we live.'' Not one of all your various plans can show a precedent or an advocate in the century within which our Government originated. Consider, then, whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves, and your charge of destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations.

Address at Cooper Institute, New York City