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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... Condition of the Country at the Meeting of Congress . - The Message . - Pro- ceedings in Congress . - Fort Fisher . - Death of Edward Everett . - Peace Conference in Hampton Roads . - Military Affairs ... Page 620 CHAPTER XX . CLOSE OF ...
... Condition of the Country at the Meeting of Congress . - The Message . - Pro- ceedings in Congress . - Fort Fisher . - Death of Edward Everett . - Peace Conference in Hampton Roads . - Military Affairs ... Page 620 CHAPTER XX . CLOSE OF ...
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... condition bordering on despair , and the widowed mother , looking through her tears , saw no cause for hope from earthly aid . At this juncture , the widow received a letter from Mr. Lincoln , vol- unteering his services in an effort to ...
... condition bordering on despair , and the widowed mother , looking through her tears , saw no cause for hope from earthly aid . At this juncture , the widow received a letter from Mr. Lincoln , vol- unteering his services in an effort to ...
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... condition of things by enlarging slavery - by spreading it out and making it bigger ? You may have a wen or cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death ; but surely it is no way to cure it , to en ...
... condition of things by enlarging slavery - by spreading it out and making it bigger ? You may have a wen or cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death ; but surely it is no way to cure it , to en ...
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... condition by the ceding States that the Federal Government should not prohibit slavery in the ceded country . Besides this , slavery was then actually in the ceded country . Under these cir cumstances , Congress , on taking charge of ...
... condition by the ceding States that the Federal Government should not prohibit slavery in the ceded country . Besides this , slavery was then actually in the ceded country . Under these cir cumstances , Congress , on taking charge of ...
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... condition . This , our new govern- ment , is the first in the history of the world , based upon this great physi- cal , philosophical , and moral truth . This truth has been slow in the pro- cess of its development , like all other ...
... condition . This , our new govern- ment , is the first in the history of the world , based upon this great physi- cal , philosophical , and moral truth . This truth has been slow in the pro- cess of its development , like all other ...
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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...