The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and DeathDerby and Miller, 1865 - 808 páginas |
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... North Carolina- that then gave the free negro the right of voting , the right has since been taken away ; and in the third - New York - it has been greatly abridged , while it has not been extended , so far as I know , to a single ...
... North Carolina- that then gave the free negro the right of voting , the right has since been taken away ; and in the third - New York - it has been greatly abridged , while it has not been extended , so far as I know , to a single ...
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... North . Judge Douglas had sustained the Dred Scott decision , but he could not sustain this attempt to force upon the people of Kansas a Constitution against their will . He took ground openly and boldly against it - denouncing it in ...
... North . Judge Douglas had sustained the Dred Scott decision , but he could not sustain this attempt to force upon the people of Kansas a Constitution against their will . He took ground openly and boldly against it - denouncing it in ...
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... North upon the South for the extinction of slavery ; that I am also in favor of inviting ( as he expresses it ) the South to a war upon the North , for the purpose of nationalizing slavery . Now , it is singular enough , if you will ...
... North upon the South for the extinction of slavery ; that I am also in favor of inviting ( as he expresses it ) the South to a war upon the North , for the purpose of nationalizing slavery . Now , it is singular enough , if you will ...
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... north to Jonesboro in the extreme south . Everywhere the different parties turned out to do honor to their champions . Processions and cavalcades , bands of music and cannon - firing , made every day a day of excite- ment . But far ...
... north to Jonesboro in the extreme south . Everywhere the different parties turned out to do honor to their champions . Processions and cavalcades , bands of music and cannon - firing , made every day a day of excite- ment . But far ...
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... North as well as South . The debate at Freeport — the second of the series - took place August 27 , and was marked by Mr. Lincoln answer- ing a series of seven questions proposed by his opponent . We give the interrogatories and the ...
... North as well as South . The debate at Freeport — the second of the series - took place August 27 , and was marked by Mr. Lincoln answer- ing a series of seven questions proposed by his opponent . We give the interrogatories and the ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN action Administration adopted aforesaid amendment Andrew Johnson April arms army arrest attack authority believe bill called cause citizens City Point command Congress Constitution Convention Corps declared Department dispatch Douglas duty election emancipation Emancipation Proclamation enemy EXECUTIVE MANSION favor Federal force Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe friends give Government Governor Grant habeas corpus Halleck hand honor HORACE GREELEY House hundred issued John Wilkes Booth July labor letter liberty loyal Major-General March McClellan ment military Missouri navy North Carolina o'clock officers party passed peace persons political position Potomac present President Lincoln President's proclamation purpose question re-enforcements rebel rebellion received reply Republican resolution Richmond River Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent sentiment Seward slavery slaves soldiers South speech Territories thing thousand tion troops Union United Virginia vote Washington whole York
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Página 258 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree 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 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...
Página 118 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Página 724 - 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 643 - 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 260 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this...
Página 253 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
Página 165 - 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 642 - On the occasion corresponding to this four" years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it.
Página 350 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before?
Página 54 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will...