Abraham LincolnHarper & Brothers, 1892 - 542 páginas |
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... SISTER AND BROTHERS APPHIA C. LITTLE , FREDERICK W. COFFIN AND ENOCH COFFIN AND TO THE MEMORY OF MARY K. CARLETON AND ELVIRA AMES SISTERS WHO HAVE PASSED TO THE LARGER LIFE INTRODUCTION . A LITTLE more than a quarter of a.
... SISTER AND BROTHERS APPHIA C. LITTLE , FREDERICK W. COFFIN AND ENOCH COFFIN AND TO THE MEMORY OF MARY K. CARLETON AND ELVIRA AMES SISTERS WHO HAVE PASSED TO THE LARGER LIFE INTRODUCTION . A LITTLE more than a quarter of a.
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... passed since the death of Abraham Lincoln . Much has been written concerning him , and doubtless much more will be written . My acquaintance with him began in his Springfield home the night following his nomination as candidate for the ...
... passed since the death of Abraham Lincoln . Much has been written concerning him , and doubtless much more will be written . My acquaintance with him began in his Springfield home the night following his nomination as candidate for the ...
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... passed , in which more than six hundred of the settlers were killed ; but the chief was dead , and his head was hanging on a gibbet in Plymouth . The captured Indians were sold as slaves to the Spaniards . 1676 . Mordecai Lincoln , the ...
... passed , in which more than six hundred of the settlers were killed ; but the chief was dead , and his head was hanging on a gibbet in Plymouth . The captured Indians were sold as slaves to the Spaniards . 1676 . Mordecai Lincoln , the ...
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... passed through Cumberland Gap and travelled many miles beyond , finding meadows waving with grass , the haunt of buffalo and deer . He and one of his companions were captured by the Indians , but made their escape . When they returned ...
... passed through Cumberland Gap and travelled many miles beyond , finding meadows waving with grass , the haunt of buffalo and deer . He and one of his companions were captured by the Indians , but made their escape . When they returned ...
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... passed in the Pigeon Creek camp , and the weariness of spirit on the part of one endowed as was the mother to adorn a palace . We are not to think that Thomas Lincoln was idle , nor that he was altogether shiftless . He was in pov- erty ...
... passed in the Pigeon Creek camp , and the weariness of spirit on the part of one endowed as was the mother to adorn a palace . We are not to think that Thomas Lincoln was idle , nor that he was altogether shiftless . He was in pov- erty ...
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Página 337 - 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.
Página 337 - I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oftexpressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.
Página 488 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
Página 355 - We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Página 488 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed very fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Página 488 - It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered — that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
Página 512 - We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
Página 337 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save...
Página 363 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.
Página 488 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years...