Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volumen3Century Company, 1890 - 470 páginas Lincoln's law partner wrote a history of Lincoln containing many little-known facts some of which have been disproved by later scholars. |
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A History John George Nicolay, John Hay. ABRAHAM LINCOLN A HISTORY BY JOHN G. NICOLAY AND JOHN HAY VOLUME THREE NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO . 1890 B HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Copyright , 1886 and 1890 ,
A History John George Nicolay, John Hay. ABRAHAM LINCOLN A HISTORY BY JOHN G. NICOLAY AND JOHN HAY VOLUME THREE NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO . 1890 B HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Copyright , 1886 and 1890 ,
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... York Police . The Conference at Harrisburg . Night Journey . Arrival in Washington . CHAPTER XXI . LINCOLN'S INAUGURATION The . 302 Calls on the President - Elect . Conference with Party Leaders . Preparation of the Inaugural Address ...
... York Police . The Conference at Harrisburg . Night Journey . Arrival in Washington . CHAPTER XXI . LINCOLN'S INAUGURATION The . 302 Calls on the President - Elect . Conference with Party Leaders . Preparation of the Inaugural Address ...
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... York , Pennsylvania , Illinois , Indiana , Michigan , Wisconsin , and Iowa have en- acted laws which either nullify the acts of Con- gress or render useless any attempt to execute them . " These acts were popularly known as " Personal ...
... York , Pennsylvania , Illinois , Indiana , Michigan , Wisconsin , and Iowa have en- acted laws which either nullify the acts of Con- gress or render useless any attempt to execute them . " These acts were popularly known as " Personal ...
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... York contractor were in prison , but the responsibility of the affair was brought home to Secretary Floyd so pointedly that the President had , three days before , requested his resignation . Floyd was in no haste to comply , and Mr ...
... York contractor were in prison , but the responsibility of the affair was brought home to Secretary Floyd so pointedly that the President had , three days before , requested his resignation . Floyd was in no haste to comply , and Mr ...
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... York or Old Point Comfort should follow immediately . If this be done at Black , " Es- once , all may yet be not well , but comparatively safe . If not , I can see nothing before us but disaster and ruin to the country . says and ...
... York or Old Point Comfort should follow immediately . If this be done at Black , " Es- once , all may yet be not well , but comparatively safe . If not , I can see nothing before us but disaster and ruin to the country . says and ...
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Página 341 - 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 342 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 340 - 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 331 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was " to form a more perfect Union.
Página 344 - 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 334 - 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 331 - ... Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever— it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
Página 331 - I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these states is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Página 332 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Página 332 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.