...should not have been separated in an address discussing moral obligations. What I did say was this : ' If we could first know where we are, and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident...

...the State of Kansas, and were rapidly gathering throughout the length and breadth of the country : " If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy...

...had prepared himself to accept the nomination in a speech which he foresaw would be the pivot of the debate with Judge Douglas. That speech he submitted...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident...

...itself cannot stand, I say again and again.'" The opening paragraph of the speech is as follows : " If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy...

...began by declaring that all men are created equal. We now practically read it all men are created equal except negroes." In his Ottawa speech of 1858, he...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident...

...would cost him his seat in the Senate. It did cost him his seat in the Senate, but the speech \vould have been delivered had he foreseen that it would...where we are and whither we are tending, we could 124 Peninsula. Pope's army, reinforced by the remains of the Army of the Peninsula, had been driven...

...written, and it may not be amiss to quote here its most important portion : "Gentlemen of the convention: If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy...

...might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. (Speech at Springfield, III., June 26, 1857.) If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. (House-divided-against-itself-speech, July 17, 1858.)...

...with the following stringent definition of the political situation : " Gentlemen of the Convention : " If we could first know where we are and whither we are drifting, we could better know what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since...

...time to our situation as a Society. "Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the convention," said Mr. Lincoln, "If we could first know where we are and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it." This outlines what I propose to present for your consideration. By a brief review, scarcely more...