Week 9 Countdown - Lincoln - an assignment

 Friends,

I forgot to include an assignment for you in the email for the Week 9 Countdown on Lincoln.

I suggest that you read and consider the Lyceum speech by Lincoln (http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm).  It took me 30 minutes to read it because the language is awkward in some spots.  But in other spots it is beautiful.   The sentences he mentions before "the Blue Ridge" are beautiful.

After he warns that our nation can commit suicide, he gives us a path to save our nation.  Here is his advice for saving America:  "The answer is simple. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others."

While a member of our party appears to be committing ballot fraud, many of his supporters do not care that the law is being violated.  The contempt that the dubious candidate for JP4 has for our laws, contempt shared by his supporters and endorsers, flies in the face of heartfelt advice from Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President.

How can anyone consider himself a conservative Republican while ignoring the heartfelt advice of Abraham Lincoln?

Thank you,

Robert Canright