Question

HELP!!

Answer 1

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 confident...

Yours truly,

A. Lincoln

Answer 2

What is the context for this document?
A letter explaining an earlier comment
A speech given at a dinner party
A commentary on a piece of legislation
An explanation of an earlier document

Answer 3

@zepdrix @One098

Answer 4

@StudyGurl14 @inkyvoyd

Answer 5

A letter explaining an earlier comment

Answer 6

@koook thanks I already had put that. can you help me with another??

Read the text below:

[Those] who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due

Which of the following is true of this excerpt?
The phrase claimed to be due implies a lack of credibility.
The word escaped suggests the mode of departure was immoral.
The phrase such service or labor suggests the labor is unjust.
The inclusion of the phrase to be due implies the escapees must return.

Answer 7

@sleepyjess help please

Answer 8

@RyGuy @MaimiGirl

Answer 9

i think it is: The phrase such service or labor suggests the labor is unjust.

Answer 10

fan and medal please :)

Answer 11

It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.

To what does the phrase sweat of other men's faces refer?
The moisture of exertion
The owners of plantations
The suggestion of work The toil of slaves

@koook

Answer 12

The suggestion of work The toil of slaves

Answer 13

sorry that one was two its either the suggestion of work
or the toilet of work and I put the suggestion of work @koook

Answer 14

the toil of slaves

Answer 15

are you sure that doesn't seem right? @koook

Answer 16

it is the suggestion of work

Answer 17

It was wrong I had put that one but thanks @MaimiGirl

Answer 18

ouch
Sorry

Answer 19

its ok