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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... whole is , that of our thirty - nine fathers who framed the original Constitution , twenty - one - a clear majority of the whole - certainly understood that no proper division of local from federal authority , nor any part of the ...
... whole is , that of our thirty - nine fathers who framed the original Constitution , twenty - one - a clear majority of the whole - certainly understood that no proper division of local from federal authority , nor any part of the ...
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... whole life , declared that , in his understanding , any proper division of local from federal authority , or any part of the Con- stitution , forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in the federal territories . I go a ...
... whole life , declared that , in his understanding , any proper division of local from federal authority , or any part of the Con- stitution , forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in the federal territories . I go a ...
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... whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery , before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us . Nor can we justifiably withhold this , on any ground save our conviction that ...
... whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery , before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us . Nor can we justifiably withhold this , on any ground save our conviction that ...
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... whole country and the whole world . Solomon says , there is " a time to keep silence , " and when men wrangle by the mouth with no certainty that they mean the same thing , while using the same word , it perhaps were as well if they ...
... whole country and the whole world . Solomon says , there is " a time to keep silence , " and when men wrangle by the mouth with no certainty that they mean the same thing , while using the same word , it perhaps were as well if they ...
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... whole field so as to be sure after all - at liberty to modify and change the course of policy as future events may make a change necessary . I have not maintained silence from any want of real anxiety . It is a good thing that there is ...
... whole field so as to be sure after all - at liberty to modify and change the course of policy as future events may make a change necessary . I have not maintained silence from any want of real anxiety . It is a good thing that there is ...
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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.