The Book of LincolnGeorge H. Doran Company, 1919 - 383 páginas |
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN ABRAHAM LINCOLN-[Continued America BANNER MEMORIES-[Continued battle birth blood born Boston brave bronze brother child coln coming crown dark dead death deeds DOORYARD BLOOM'D dream earth EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN eyes face faith fame Father Abraham flag freedom gaunt Gettysburg glory God's grave hand hath heart hero honour hope hour human James Oppenheim JOHN KENDRICK BANGS kings knew labour land lilacs LILACS LAST LINCOLN HIGHWAY LINCOLN-CHILD-[Continued LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY LINCOLN'S GRAVE-[Continued living LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN martyr memory mighty mother mourning Nathan Haskell Dole nation night o'er ODE-[Continued peace people's praise President race REGINALD WRIGHT RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Richard Watson Gilder shine sing slave song sorrow soul spirit Springfield stars strife strong sweet tears tender thee thou to-day toil Union voice Walt Whitman Washington Wendell Phillips West wild Wilderness WILLIAM MORRIS DAVIS Woodbury Pulsifer York
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Página 38 - Resolved, that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 161 - For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Página 52 - States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
Página 49 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Página 55 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Página 62 - 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...
Página 164 - WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Página 50 - I am Loath 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 52 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Página 62 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the...