Lincoln College - Lynxite Yearbook (Lincoln, IL)

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Second Inaugural Address On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war . . . both parties deprecated warg but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came... - A Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an 'easier triumph, and aresult less fundamental and as- tounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aidagainst the other. It may seem strange that any man should dare to ask a just God assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not that we be not judged . . . If we shall suppose that American Slavery isone of those offences which, in the providence of God, ,must needs come, but which, having con- tinued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do We hope - fervently do we pray - that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away . . . W ' A With malice toward none 5 with, charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are ing to bind up the nation's wounds 5 to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. ' March, 1865 A4 31

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An attentive Convocation audience listened as Judge Parsons voiced faith in the youth of America and the country's future. Official Semester Start, The Opening Convocation Each semester is officially begun with a convocation, at which famous men, both foreign and native Ameri- cans, are honored for their services to humanity. Fall convocation found Lincoln College paying its honors to a judge and a historian. Judge James B. Par- sons, U. S. District Court of Northern Illinois, was main speaker, while Dr. William E. Baringer, University of Florida, Was also honored. Opening the s econd semester, U. S. Representative Melvin Laird of Wisconsin was awarded an honorary degree, at which time he was also the guest speaker for the occasion. Lincoln College trustee James Vaughn, Wisconsin Representative Melvin Laird, and college President Dr. Raymond Dooley at second semester Convocation. rv'--, M 55 is