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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... effort to save the youth from the impending stroke . Gladly was his aid accepted , although it seemed impossible for even his sagacity to prevail in such a desperate case ; but the heart of the attorney was in his work , and he set ...
... effort to save the youth from the impending stroke . Gladly was his aid accepted , although it seemed impossible for even his sagacity to prevail in such a desperate case ; but the heart of the attorney was in his work , and he set ...
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... efforts to obscure it and cover it up , to draw attention to other points and raise false issues , which were the marked characteristics of his great controversy with Judge Douglas at a subsequent period of their poli- tical history ...
... efforts to obscure it and cover it up , to draw attention to other points and raise false issues , which were the marked characteristics of his great controversy with Judge Douglas at a subsequent period of their poli- tical history ...
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... efforts . Upon the adjournment of Congress , the members en- tered energetically into the popular canvass , Mr. Lincoln first making a visit to New England , where he delivered a number of effective campaign speeches in support of ...
... efforts . Upon the adjournment of Congress , the members en- tered energetically into the popular canvass , Mr. Lincoln first making a visit to New England , where he delivered a number of effective campaign speeches in support of ...
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... effort to revive that trade is approaching ? He has not said so . Does he really think so ? But if it is , how can he resist it ? For years he has labored to prove it a sacred right of white men to take negro slaves into the new ...
... effort to revive that trade is approaching ? He has not said so . Does he really think so ? But if it is , how can he resist it ? For years he has labored to prove it a sacred right of white men to take negro slaves into the new ...
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... effort . He then cited from Democratic speeches and platforms of former days to prove that they occupied then the very opposite ground on the question from that which was taken at the time he was speaking . He also brought out in strong ...
... effort . He then cited from Democratic speeches and platforms of former days to prove that they occupied then the very opposite ground on the question from that which was taken at the time he was speaking . He also brought out in strong ...
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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...