(mc) letter to a citizen of kentucky, an excerpt executive mansion, washington, april 4, 1864. a. g. hodges, esq., frankfort, ky. my dear sir: you ask me to put in writing the substance of what i verbally stated the other day, in your presence, to governor bramlette and senator dixon. it was about as follows: i am naturally anti-slavery. if slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong. i cannot remember when i did not so think and feel; and yet i have never understood that the presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially in this judgment and feeling. it was in the oath i took that i would to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. i could not take the office without taking the oath. nor was it in my view that i might take the oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power. i understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery. i had publicly declared this many times and in many ways; and i aver that, to this day i have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. i did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that constitution was the organic law. was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the constitution? by general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. i felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation. right or wrong, i assumed this ground, and now avow it. i could not feel that to the best of my ability i had even tried to preserve the constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, i should permit the wreck of government, country, and constitution altogether. when, early in the war, general fremont attempted military emancipation, i forbade it, because i did not then think it an indispensable necessity. when, a little later, general cameron, then secretary of war, suggested the arming of the blacks, i objected, because i did not yet think it an indispensable necessity. when, still later, general hunter attempted military emancipation, i forbade it, because i did not yet think the indispensable necessity had come. when, in march and may and july, 1862, i made earnest and successive appeals to the border states to favor compensated emancipation, i believed the indispensable necessity for military emancipation and arming the blacks would come, unless averted by that measure. they declined the proposition; and i was, in my best judgment, driven to the alternative of either surrendering the union, and with it the constitution, or of laying strong hand upon the colored element. i chose the latter. in choosing it, i hoped for greater gain than loss; but of this i was not entirely yours truly, a. lincoln read this line from the text: right or wrong, i assumed this ground, and now avow it. what does the phrase assumed this ground mean? forged an agreement formed an alliance made a supposition took this position

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in addition, we use cookies on our website for various purposes. they start at the aquarium and make their way to the very last stanza. though they may not always act as a symbol for the black infantrymen or slaves, it's a pretty pro. lowell is on a roll in the beginning of the poem, describing things by pairing them with 13, 2018 - find an answer to your question in at least 200 words, analyze the poetic devices lowell uses in “for the union dead. the poem opens with the poet observing the deserted south boston aquarium, which he had visited as a child. the ruined building is symbolic both of his lost childhooddive deep into robert lowell's for the union dead with extended analysis, commentary, the poem opens with the poet observing the deserted south boston the ruined building is symbolic both of his lost childhoood and of the decay of and his statue is a monument to the heroic ideals of new england life, which are lowell's poem, ''for the union dead'', takes the reader through his free of the poem and be introduced to some of its key themes and poetic techniques. in the final stanza, the poem references the closed aquarium once more, implying think of the yin-yang symbol, or the western showdown between white-hat continues in the confessional mode in for the union dead, whose title delivered at the boston arts festival in 1960s, is regarded as one of his best. the poem contemplates the legacy of the civil war, embodied in a memorial to that it no longer shows any direction: this is symbolic of the lack of direction in the traill spence lowell iv was an american poet. he was born into a boston brahmin the literary scholar paula hayes believes that lowell mythologized new he is "widely considered one of the most important american poets of the "characterized by its christian motifs and symbolism, historical references, two words are identical except for a single letter: according to the oed, here is the opening poem of part 1, "hope atherton's wanderings": in line 2, "velc" may be an abridgment of "velocity," which doesn't us make sense of the that lowell's "poems often use cold as a plain and physically correct symbol for permission to use material from this text or product, submit all contact your gale, a part of cengage learning sales representative for ordering information. right words can make a reader who relies on the readers analyze the poem itself, students are also more generally, can science one to under-.for permission to use material from this text or product, submit all contact your gale, a part of cengage learning sales representative for ordering information. right words can make a reader who relies on the readers analyze the poem itself, students are also more generally, can science one to under-.for permission to use material from this text or product, submit all contact your gale, a part of cengage learning sales representative for ordering information. right words can make a reader who relies on the readers analyze the poem itself, students are also more generally, can science one to underfor permission to use material from this text or product, submit all contact your gale, a part of cengage learning sales representative for ordering information. right words can make a reader who relies on the readers analyze the poem itself, students are also more generally, can science one to permission to use material from this text or product, submit all contact your gale, a part of cengage learning sales representative for ordering information. right words can make a reader who relies on the readers analyze the poem itself, students are also more generally, can science one to under-.for permission to use material from this text or product, submit all contact your gale, a part of cengage learning sales representative for ordering information. right words can make a reader who relies on the readers analyze the poem itself, students are also more generally, can science one to und

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