The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters, and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished, and Illustrated with Many Reproductions from Original Paintings, Photographs, Etc, Volumen4Lincoln History Society, 1900 |
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Abraham Lincoln Adams Adams's answer Applause April Army of Potomac assignment August August 20 Baltimore Bank City Point Colonel Company Congress Cypher DEAR SIR death sentence December December 14 deed DEPARTMENT election execution of death EXECUTIVE MANSION February February 22 Fort Monroe forward record Frémont friends further order GOVERNOR House Illinois Iowa James January January 20 June Kansas letter LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT MAJOR ECKERT MAJOR-GENERAL BURNSIDE MAJOR-GENERAL BUTLER MAJOR-GENERAL DIX MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE March military Missouri Monroe morning Nashville NICOLAY night November October October 15 OFFICER IN COMMAND Ohio Original party pier President Private Secretary received record for examination regiment Saint Louis Secretary of War sentence of death September September 13 slave slavery SPRINGFIELD Suspend execution Talbott telegram telegraph Tenn thing tion to-day Union vote WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON CITY Whigs William wish yesterday York
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Página 16 - 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 1 - Our popular Government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled — the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains — its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.
Página 2 - But the election, along with its incidental and undesirable strife, has done good, too. It has demonstrated that a people's Government can sustain a national election in the midst of a great civil war.
Página 16 - The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.
Página 16 - Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Página 16 - 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 16 - We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper, practical relation with the Union, and that the sole object of the government, civil and military, in regard to those States, is to again get them into that proper practical relation.
Página 28 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his warst : nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Página 1 - It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies.
Página 10 - It is not claimed that the election has imposed a duty on members to change their views or their votes any further than as an additional element to be considered, their judgment may be affected by it. It is the voice of the people now for the first time heard upon the question. In a great national crisis like ours, unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable — almost indispensable. And yet no approach to such unanimity is attainable unless some deference shall be paid...