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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... course , very hard to find in the sparsely settled district of Indiana where the Lincoln family had their home , and every printed volume upon which Abraham could lay his hands was carefully guarded and eagerly devoured . Among the ...
... course , very hard to find in the sparsely settled district of Indiana where the Lincoln family had their home , and every printed volume upon which Abraham could lay his hands was carefully guarded and eagerly devoured . Among the ...
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... twenty - four years afterwards , defeat in a presidential election . The Democrats of course held the ascendency in the Illinois legislature at this time , and they took advantage of STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 27.
... twenty - four years afterwards , defeat in a presidential election . The Democrats of course held the ascendency in the Illinois legislature at this time , and they took advantage of STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 27.
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... course in Congress , as having been prompted by patriotic motives . The nation which has been plunged into mourning by his sudden and violent death , would now regard as gratuitous and puerile any argument , the purpose of which should ...
... course in Congress , as having been prompted by patriotic motives . The nation which has been plunged into mourning by his sudden and violent death , would now regard as gratuitous and puerile any argument , the purpose of which should ...
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... course , and , it seems to me , the difficulty is cleared . One of the gentlemen from South Carolina [ Mr. Rhett ] very much de- precates these statistics . He particularly objects , as I understand him , to counting all the pigs and ...
... course , and , it seems to me , the difficulty is cleared . One of the gentlemen from South Carolina [ Mr. Rhett ] very much de- precates these statistics . He particularly objects , as I understand him , to counting all the pigs and ...
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... course . Mr. Douglas had always claimed to have voted for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise because he sustained the " great principle " of popular sovereignty , and de- sired that the inhabitants of Kansas and Nebraska should ...
... course . Mr. Douglas had always claimed to have voted for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise because he sustained the " great principle " of popular sovereignty , and de- sired that the inhabitants of Kansas and Nebraska should ...
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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...