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ABRAHAM LINCOLN accept ADDRESS allow answer appear appoint armed attempt August authority believe called cause character circumstances citizens command Congress consider Constitution convention course dear Sir Department duty election EXECUTIVE MANSION exists expect express fact February feel force friends Gentlemen give given Governor hand hold honor hope House ILLINOIS independence inviting Kentucky kind land LETTER liberties lived maintain majority March matter means ment military nature necessary necessity never obedient servant object officers once opinion party pass peace person political position possible present President Private proclamation proposed provision question reached reason received regard regiment Representatives SECRETARY Senate sent SEWARD slavery slaves South speak speech SPRINGFIELD Sumter suppose thank thing tion true truly Union United WASHINGTON whole wish write York
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Página 163 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." 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 214 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Página 148 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension.
Página 17 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that " no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Página 82 - You think slavery is right and ought to be extended, while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That. I suppose, is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.
Página 297 - Great honor is due to those officers who remained true despite the example of their treacherous associates; but the greatest honor and most 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 obeyed as absolute law. This is the patriotic instinct of plain people. They understand without an argument that the destroying the Government...
Página 17 - That the new dogma that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States...
Página 109 - Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To his care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Página 335 - Kentucky gone, we cannot hold Missouri, nor, as I think, Maryland. These all against us, and the job on our hands is too large for us. We would as well consent to separation at once, including the surrender of this capital.
Página 275 - The policy chosen looked to the exhaustion of all peaceful measures before a resort to any stronger ones. It sought only to hold the public places and property not already wrested from the Government, and to collect the revenue, relying for the rest on time, discussion, and the ballot-box.
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| Título | Complete Works, Volumen6 Complete Works, Abraham Lincoln |
| Autor | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editores | John George Nicolay, John Hay |
| Editor | Lincoln Memorial University, 1894 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 10 Ago. 2006 |
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