The Life of Abraham LincolnCosimo, Inc., 2008 M01 1 - 488 páginas She is remembered today as a muckraking journalist, author of such blockbuster exposes as 1904's The History of the Standard Oil Company, which actually contributed to the corporation's breakup in 1911. But in this 1900 work, as charming as it is important, American author IDA MINERVA TARBELL (1857-1944) shows a softer side as she traces, with a laudatory and admiring spirit, the development of the character and morals of Abraham Lincoln. Begun as a project by McClure's Magazine to collect and preserve the reminiscences of friends and acquaintances of Abraham Lincoln while they were still alive, the project grew into a series of articles for the periodical, and then finally this two-volume spiritual biography of the great man, which draws on firsthand memories and other material, including original sources such speeches, letters, and telegrams. Volume II begins with Lincoln's inauguration as President of the United States and follows him through the Civil War, his struggle with the "weapon" of emancipation, his reelection in 1864, and his death and funeral. This volume also features an extensive appendix of original documents written by and to Lincoln. |
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... tion . Having been so elected upon the Chicago platform , and while I would repeat nothing in it of aspersion or epithet or question of motive against any man or party , I hold myself bound by duty , as well as impelled by inclination ...
... tion . Having been so elected upon the Chicago platform , and while I would repeat nothing in it of aspersion or epithet or question of motive against any man or party , I hold myself bound by duty , as well as impelled by inclination ...
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... tion to do so . Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations , and had never recanted them . " He followed this conciliatory statement by a full answer to the question ...
... tion to do so . Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations , and had never recanted them . " He followed this conciliatory statement by a full answer to the question ...
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... tion of the national fabric with all its benefits , its memories and its hopes . " 66 Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence ? Will you , while ...
... tion of the national fabric with all its benefits , its memories and its hopes . " 66 Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence ? Will you , while ...
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... tion . Not long after the election Anderson , himself a South- erner , thoroughly familiar with the feeling in Charleston , wrote the War Department that if the harbor was to be held by the United States , Fort Sumter and Castle Pinckey ...
... tion . Not long after the election Anderson , himself a South- erner , thoroughly familiar with the feeling in Charleston , wrote the War Department that if the harbor was to be held by the United States , Fort Sumter and Castle Pinckey ...
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... tion . It was the first act in defense of United States prop- erty , and Anderson became at once a popular hero and re- enforcements for him were vehemently demanded . Early in January Buchanan yielded to the pressure and sent the Star ...
... tion . It was the first act in defense of United States prop- erty , and Anderson became at once a popular hero and re- enforcements for him were vehemently demanded . Early in January Buchanan yielded to the pressure and sent the Star ...
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Abraham Lincoln appointment April Army of Potomac asked August Baltimore believe Burnside cabinet called City Point coln Colonel Congress Cypher DEAR SIR death sentence December December 26 DEPARTMENT desertion dispatch election emancipation Emancipation Proclamation enemy execution of death EXECUTIVE MANSION February Fort Monroe Fort Sumter forward record Frémont friends further order Governor Grant Halleck Illinois January January 20 John June letter MAJOR ECKERT MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE March McClellan ment military Missouri Monroe morning never NICOLAY night North October October 15 OFFICER IN COMMAND Ohio party passed persons pier President President's proclamation received regiment Republican Richmond Saint Louis Secretary of War Senator sent September September 13 Seward slavery slaves soldiers South Springfield Stanton Sumter Suspend execution Talbott telegram telegraph Tenn thing tion to-day troops Union Volunteers vote WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON CITY Whigs White House wrote York