You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
THE BALANCE SHEET OF THE GOVERNMENT,
BEFORE AND SINCE THE WAR, 1859 AND 1865.
The receipts into the Treasury during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1859, were as follows:
| From Customs | $49,565,824 38 |
| From Public Lands | 1,756,687 30 |
| From Miscellaneous Sources | 2,082,559 33 |
| From Treasury Notes | 9,667,400 00 |
| From Loans | 18,620,000 00 |
| Aggregate resources for the year ending | |
| June 30, 1859 | $88,090,787 11 |