EXTRACTS from SPEECHES and LETTERS
On the Admittance of Kansas to the Union
Address on Raising the New Flag Over Independence Hall, Philadelphia, February 22, 1861.
“Cultivating the spirit that animated our fathers, who gave renown and celebrity to this hall, cherishing that fraternal feeling which has so long characterized us as a nation, excluding passion, ill temper, and precipitate action on all occasions, I think we may promise ourselves that not only the new star placed upon that flag shall be permitted to remain there to our permanent prosperity for years to come, but additional ones shall from time to time be placed there until we shall number, as it was anticipated by the great historian, five hundred millions of happy and prosperous people.”
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