Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator: A Biographical SketchFunk & Wagnalls, 1891 - 398 páginas |
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... tion of his character , and a deeper love for the coun- try whose altar was stained with the blood of so noble a sacrifice , the effort will not have been made in vain . CHICAGO , January 30 , 1891 . CHAPTER XVI ... CHAPTER XVII . 235 ...
... tion of his character , and a deeper love for the coun- try whose altar was stained with the blood of so noble a sacrifice , the effort will not have been made in vain . CHICAGO , January 30 , 1891 . CHAPTER XVI ... CHAPTER XVII . 235 ...
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... tion of the student is not attracted by the masses of the people , who have inhabited the earth during any given period , but rather by the individuals , who , by their genius , heroism or devotion to principle , have towered above the ...
... tion of the student is not attracted by the masses of the people , who have inhabited the earth during any given period , but rather by the individuals , who , by their genius , heroism or devotion to principle , have towered above the ...
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... tion , and came to bear about the same relation to so- ciety , as the " poor whites " of later days . Into this class of unfortunates many of the descendants of the well - to - do Lincoln family relapsed . Aside from a number of ...
... tion , and came to bear about the same relation to so- ciety , as the " poor whites " of later days . Into this class of unfortunates many of the descendants of the well - to - do Lincoln family relapsed . Aside from a number of ...
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... tion , so that they became almost forgotten accom- plishments . Yet her taste made their little log - cabin , with its rude furnishings , far more attractive than the dwellings of their neighbors , and had she lived amid 16 ABRAHAM LINCOLN ...
... tion , so that they became almost forgotten accom- plishments . Yet her taste made their little log - cabin , with its rude furnishings , far more attractive than the dwellings of their neighbors , and had she lived amid 16 ABRAHAM LINCOLN ...
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... tion and speeches , and the simplicity and clearness of his literary style was largely produced by his study of its matchless diction . There were a few books of standard merit possessed by the different families in the neighborhood all ...
... tion and speeches , and the simplicity and clearness of his literary style was largely produced by his study of its matchless diction . There were a few books of standard merit possessed by the different families in the neighborhood all ...
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Página 192 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Página 308 - 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 308 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Página 179 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.
Página 309 - 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 bondsman's two hundred and fifty years...
Página 309 - 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. The prayer of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. Woe unto the world because of offences, for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom...
Página 195 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend " it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 259 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...
Página 241 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Página 230 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it in the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be, the Union as it was.