ivil war. The government will not assail you.

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

Which amount was expended as follows:

Civil, Foreign and Miscellan's $23,635,820 94
Interior (Indians and Pensions), 4,753,972 60
War Department 23,243,822 38
Navy Department 14,712,610 21
Public Debt 17,405,285 44

Total expenses for the year $83,751,511 57
Balance in Treasury July 1, 1859 4,339,275 54

The receipts into the Treasury during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1865, was $1,898,532,533 24, of which were
received:

From loans applied to expenses $864,863,499 17
From loans applied to Public Debt 607,361,241 68
From Internal Revenue 209,464,215 25

Expenditures for the year $1,897,674,224 09
War Department charged with 1,031,323,360 79
Balance in Treasury July 1, 1865 858,309 15
Total increase of Public Debt during the
year 941,902,537 04

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S SECOND AND LAST INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

MARCH 4, 1865.

FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN: At this second appearing to take the oath of the
Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended addre