Early Speeches: Springfield Speech, Cooper Union Speech, Inaugural Addresses, Gettysburg Address, Selected Letters, Lincoln's Lost SpeechDoubleday, Page, 1902 - 167 páginas |
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... consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people , it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very dis- tinct and vivid . Yet the impression is common , almost ...
... consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people , it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very dis- tinct and vivid . Yet the impression is common , almost ...
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... consider all men created equal - equal with " certain in- alienable rights , among which are life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness . " This they said , and this they meant . They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that ...
... consider all men created equal - equal with " certain in- alienable rights , among which are life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness . " This they said , and this they meant . They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that ...
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... consider not only what work the machinery is adapted to do , and how well adapted ; but also let him study the his- tory of its construction , and trace , if he can , or rather fail , if he can , to trace the evidences of design and ...
... consider not only what work the machinery is adapted to do , and how well adapted ; but also let him study the his- tory of its construction , and trace , if he can , or rather fail , if he can , to trace the evidences of design and ...
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... considering the un- derstanding of the question manifested by the framers of the original Constitution . In and by the original instrument , a mode was pro- vided for amending it ; and , as I have already stated , the present frame of ...
... considering the un- derstanding of the question manifested by the framers of the original Constitution . In and by the original instrument , a mode was pro- vided for amending it ; and , as I have already stated , the present frame of ...
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... consider yourselves a reasonable and a just people ; and I consider that in the general qualities of reason and jus- tice you are not inferior to any other people . Still , when you speak of us Republicans , you do so only to denounce ...
... consider yourselves a reasonable and a just people ; and I consider that in the general qualities of reason and jus- tice you are not inferior to any other people . Still , when you speak of us Republicans , you do so only to denounce ...
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Abraham Baldwin ABRAHAM LINCOLN affirmed amendments anti-Nebraska Applause army believe better bleeding Kansas border ruffians citizens Congress convention Declaration of Independence deny Dred Scott decision election Emancipation Proclamation ernment exclude slavery Executive Mansion expressly fact fathers who framed favor Federal authority Federal Government Federal Territories forbade the Federal force framed the government free-State freedom Frémont friends Gettysburg Address Government to control human Illinois Inaugural Address indorse insurrection Judge Douglas justice Kansas Lecompton constitution liberty live Lost Speech McClellan ment Missouri Compromise nation Nebraska bill negro never numbers opinion opposed original Constitution party persons plainly political present President principle prohibit slavery proper division question rebellion Republican save the Union sentiment service or labor slavery in Federal speak stand stitution thing thirty-nine Thurlow Weed tion to-day understanding United Virginia voted Washington Whigs whole words wrong
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Página 24 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 104 - 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. 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.
Página 90 - ... 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 or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Página 76 - ... of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend ; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any state or territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
Página 105 - 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...
Página 80 - I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken ; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Página 25 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Página 84 - Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism...
Página 52 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now" I fully indorse this, and I adopt it as a text for this discourse.
Página 93 - And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.