Abraham Lincoln's Pen and Voice: Being a Complete Compilation of His Letters, Civil, Politival, and Military, Also His Public Addresses, Messages to Congress, Inaugurals and Others, as Well as Proclamations Upon Various Public Concerns ...R. Clarke & Company, 1890 - 423 páginas |
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... course of policy as future events may make a change necessary . I have not maintained silence from any want of real anxiety . It is a good thing that there is no more than anxiety , for there is nothing going wrong . It is a consoling ...
... course of policy as future events may make a change necessary . I have not maintained silence from any want of real anxiety . It is a good thing that there is no more than anxiety , for there is nothing going wrong . It is a consoling ...
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... course they are pursuing . I repeat , then , there is no crisis , excepting such a one as may be gotten up at any time by turbulent men , aided by de- signing politicians . My advice to them , under such circumstances , is to keep cool ...
... course they are pursuing . I repeat , then , there is no crisis , excepting such a one as may be gotten up at any time by turbulent men , aided by de- signing politicians . My advice to them , under such circumstances , is to keep cool ...
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... course is entirely right . I am not sure— I do not pretend to be sure -- that in the selection of the individual who has been elected this term , the wisest choice has been made . I fear it has not . In the purposes and in the ...
... course is entirely right . I am not sure— I do not pretend to be sure -- that in the selection of the individual who has been elected this term , the wisest choice has been made . I fear it has not . In the purposes and in the ...
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... course for me to take . I am brought before you now to make a speech , while you all approve , more than any thing else , that I have . been keeping silence . It seems to me the response you give to that remark ought to justify me in ...
... course for me to take . I am brought before you now to make a speech , while you all approve , more than any thing else , that I have . been keeping silence . It seems to me the response you give to that remark ought to justify me in ...
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... course ; and I may say , in advance , that there will be no bloodshed unless it will be forced upon the government , and then it will be compelled to act in self - defense . SPEECH BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE OF PENNSYLVANIA AT HARRISBURG ...
... course ; and I may say , in advance , that there will be no bloodshed unless it will be forced upon the government , and then it will be compelled to act in self - defense . SPEECH BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE OF PENNSYLVANIA AT HARRISBURG ...
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Página 371 - 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 bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, " the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 47 - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 197 - 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 167 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do 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 the Union.
Página 371 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among...
Página 370 - 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 289 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
Página 370 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. 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.
Página 47 - ... 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, is essential to that balance of...
Página 290 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...