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Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln The Celebrated Chicago Photograph . Photogravure from the Original Photograph taken about 1860 by Hesler , of Chicago , Illinois ( 0. H. Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial Collection , Washing- ton , D. C. ) nlooni.I ...
Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln The Celebrated Chicago Photograph . Photogravure from the Original Photograph taken about 1860 by Hesler , of Chicago , Illinois ( 0. H. Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial Collection , Washing- ton , D. C. ) nlooni.I ...
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... taken in his treatment of the thousands who thronged continually about him ? More than once when re- proached for permitting visitors to crowd upon him , he asked , in pained surprise : " Why , what harm does this confidence in men do ...
... taken in his treatment of the thousands who thronged continually about him ? More than once when re- proached for permitting visitors to crowd upon him , he asked , in pained surprise : " Why , what harm does this confidence in men do ...
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... taken his place there of his own free choice . " ( Then what followed in his message is , to me , the highest and most touching tribute ever spoken or written of our matchless Volunteer Army of 1861-65 by any American statesman ...
... taken his place there of his own free choice . " ( Then what followed in his message is , to me , the highest and most touching tribute ever spoken or written of our matchless Volunteer Army of 1861-65 by any American statesman ...
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... taken be- fore this great act of justice could be performed . Patience and forbearance had to be exercised . It had to be demonstrated that the Union could be saved in no other way . Lincoln , much as he abhorred slavery , felt that his ...
... taken be- fore this great act of justice could be performed . Patience and forbearance had to be exercised . It had to be demonstrated that the Union could be saved in no other way . Lincoln , much as he abhorred slavery , felt that his ...
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... taken in 1860 , now in possession of Judge Daniel Fish . LETTER TO HORACE GREELEY , August 22 , 1862. 338 Fac - simile of the original letter written in reply to " The Prayer of Twenty Millions . " Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln ...
... taken in 1860 , now in possession of Judge Daniel Fish . LETTER TO HORACE GREELEY , August 22 , 1862. 338 Fac - simile of the original letter written in reply to " The Prayer of Twenty Millions . " Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln ...
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Página 45 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Página 174 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Página 142 - 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 180 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Página 144 - ... only because they want to vote, and eat, and sleep, and marry with negroes! He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife.
Página 294 - ... understood the question just as well, and even better than we do now." But enough. Let all who believe that " our fathers, who framed the Government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now," speak as they spoke, and act as they acted upon it.
Página 35 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Página 364 - Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by our fathers who framed the government under which we live...
Página 144 - I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Página 287 - ... to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn, in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all.