The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and DeathDerby and Miller, 1865 - 808 страница |
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... major- ity of fifteen hundred and eleven . To add to the signifi- cance of his triumph , he was the only Whig representative from Illinois , which had then seven members in that body . This Congress had before it subjects of great ...
... major- ity of fifteen hundred and eleven . To add to the signifi- cance of his triumph , he was the only Whig representative from Illinois , which had then seven members in that body . This Congress had before it subjects of great ...
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... Major Anderson trans- ferred his garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter . On the 29th John B. Floyd resigned his office as Secretary of War , alleging that the action of Major Anderson was in violation of pledges given by the ...
... Major Anderson trans- ferred his garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter . On the 29th John B. Floyd resigned his office as Secretary of War , alleging that the action of Major Anderson was in violation of pledges given by the ...
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... Major Anderson acted solely on his own responsibility , and that his first impulse on hearing of it was to order him to return , but that the occupation of the fort by South Carolina and the seizure of the arsenal at Charleston had ...
... Major Anderson acted solely on his own responsibility , and that his first impulse on hearing of it was to order him to return , but that the occupation of the fort by South Carolina and the seizure of the arsenal at Charleston had ...
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... Major Anderson , who was in command , that his " sense of honor and his obligations to his Government prevented his compliance . " On the night of the same day General Beauregard wrote to Major Anderson , by orders of his Government ...
... Major Anderson , who was in command , that his " sense of honor and his obligations to his Government prevented his compliance . " On the night of the same day General Beauregard wrote to Major Anderson , by orders of his Government ...
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... Major Anderson , commanding at Fort Sumter , written on the 28th of February , and received at the War Department on the 4th of March , was by that Department placed in his hands . This letter ex- pressed the professional opinion of the ...
... Major Anderson , commanding at Fort Sumter , written on the 28th of February , and received at the War Department on the 4th of March , was by that Department placed in his hands . This letter ex- pressed the professional opinion of the ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN action Administration adopted aforesaid amendment Andrew Johnson April arms army arrest attack authority believe bill called cause citizens City Point command Congress Constitution Convention Corps declared Department dispatch Douglas duty election emancipation Emancipation Proclamation enemy EXECUTIVE MANSION favor Federal force Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe friends give Government Governor Grant habeas corpus Halleck hand honor HORACE GREELEY House hundred issued John Wilkes Booth July labor letter liberty loyal Major-General March McClellan ment military Missouri navy North Carolina o'clock officers party passed peace persons political position Potomac present President Lincoln President's proclamation purpose question re-enforcements rebel rebellion received reply Republican resolution Richmond River Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent sentiment Seward slavery slaves soldiers South speech Territories thing thousand tion troops Union United Virginia vote Washington whole York
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Страница 258 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons...
Страница 118 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Страница 724 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Страница 643 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Страница 260 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this...
Страница 253 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
Страница 165 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Страница 642 - On the occasion corresponding to this four" years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it.
Страница 350 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before?
Страница 54 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will...