The Martyr's Monument: Being the Patriotism and Political Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, as Exhibited in His Speeches, Messages, Orders, and Proclamations, from the Presidential Canvass of 1860 Until His Assassination, April 14, 1865American News Company, 1885 - 297 páginas |
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... importance while he was President elect , and other expressions of his purposes and his convictions , not uttered exactly as President , will be found in the collection , which is well worth the thoughtful perusal of every citizen of ...
... importance while he was President elect , and other expressions of his purposes and his convictions , not uttered exactly as President , will be found in the collection , which is well worth the thoughtful perusal of every citizen of ...
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... importance of which we all comprehend . Again thanking you for the reception you have given me , I will now bid you fare- well , and proceed upon my journey . SPEECHES AT TRENTON , N. J. IN THE SENATE CHAMBER . Mr. President and ...
... importance of which we all comprehend . Again thanking you for the reception you have given me , I will now bid you fare- well , and proceed upon my journey . SPEECHES AT TRENTON , N. J. IN THE SENATE CHAMBER . Mr. President and ...
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... important . A convention , elected by the people of that State to consider this very question of disrupting the Federal Union , was in session at the capital of Virginia when Fort Sumter fell . To this body the people had chosen a large ...
... important . A convention , elected by the people of that State to consider this very question of disrupting the Federal Union , was in session at the capital of Virginia when Fort Sumter fell . To this body the people had chosen a large ...
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... important for you to know . It is now recommended that you give the legal means for making this contest a short and decisive one ; that you place at the control of the Government , for the work , at least four hundred thousand men and ...
... important for you to know . It is now recommended that you give the legal means for making this contest a short and decisive one ; that you place at the control of the Government , for the work , at least four hundred thousand men and ...
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... important fact of all , is the unanimous firmness of the common soldiers and common sailors . To the last man , so far as known , they have successfully resisted the traitorous efforts of those whose commands but an hour before they ...
... important fact of all , is the unanimous firmness of the common soldiers and common sailors . To the last man , so far as known , they have successfully resisted the traitorous efforts of those whose commands but an hour before they ...
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Página 279 - 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 61 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Página 245 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder; and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress or by decision of the Supreme Court...
Página 279 - 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 44 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and when after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.
Página 137 - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Página 43 - ... very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government. And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled, and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice.
Página 285 - Let us all join in doing the acts necessary to restoring the proper practical relations between these States and the Union, and each forever after innocently indulge his own opinion whether in doing the acts he brought the States from without into the Union, or only gave them proper assistance, they never having been out of it.
Página 44 - Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great...
Página 8 - Republicans. It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great confederacy shall be at peace, and in harmony, one with another. Let us Republicans do our part to have it so. Even though much provoked, let us do nothing through passion and ill temper. Even though the Southern people will not so much as listen to us, let us calmly consider their demands, and yield to them if, in our deliberate view of our duty, we possibly can.