Lincoln, His Life and Time: Being the Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States, Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages and Proclamations and Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and Death, Volumen1Thompson & Thomas, 1891 - 808 páginas This work is a biography of Abraham Lincoln and focuses on his presidency and administration during the Civil War. |
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... position in the part of the State where he then lived , is clearly indicated by the fact that he was elected captain of his company . After a few weeks ' ineffectual service , the force which had responded to the call of Governor ...
... position in the part of the State where he then lived , is clearly indicated by the fact that he was elected captain of his company . After a few weeks ' ineffectual service , the force which had responded to the call of Governor ...
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... position might not be misunderstood , Mr. Lincoln took advantage of his parliamentary privi- lege to enter upon the Journal of the House , in connec- tion with a colleague , his reasons for voting in opposition to the resolutions . This ...
... position might not be misunderstood , Mr. Lincoln took advantage of his parliamentary privi- lege to enter upon the Journal of the House , in connec- tion with a colleague , his reasons for voting in opposition to the resolutions . This ...
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... position of the Administration before the people , in reference to the beginning of the war , was in the point , which they lost no opportunity of reiter ating , viz . that Mexico had shed the blood of our citizens on our own soil ...
... position of the Administration before the people , in reference to the beginning of the war , was in the point , which they lost no opportunity of reiter ating , viz . that Mexico had shed the blood of our citizens on our own soil ...
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... position taken by General Cass upon this important question , and , in concluding his remarks , thus stated his own views , while he dealt a severe blow at the same pseudo chivalric spirit of the South , which he has since been chiefly ...
... position taken by General Cass upon this important question , and , in concluding his remarks , thus stated his own views , while he dealt a severe blow at the same pseudo chivalric spirit of the South , which he has since been chiefly ...
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... position in full , for the benefit of his constituents . The only speech of any length made by Mr. Lincoln , subsequent to that from which we have already quoted , was delivered July 27th , when he defended , with characteristic ...
... position in full , for the benefit of his constituents . The only speech of any length made by Mr. Lincoln , subsequent to that from which we have already quoted , was delivered July 27th , when he defended , with characteristic ...
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Página 263 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free ; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Página 260 - ... 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 262 - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States, and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Página 54 - 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 push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Página 170 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Página 55 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Página 101 - All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy.
Página 262 - ... 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...
Página 171 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Página 362 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.