The History of Abraham Lincoln, and the Overthrow of SlaveryClarke & Company, 1866 - 720 páginas |
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... Battle of Antietam - Incidents Connected with it - How Re- ceived ..283 CHAPTER XIV . MILITARY OPERATIONS OF 1862 . Inactivity of McClellan - President's Order for a General Advance -Active Operations in the West - Battle of Middle ...
... Battle of Antietam - Incidents Connected with it - How Re- ceived ..283 CHAPTER XIV . MILITARY OPERATIONS OF 1862 . Inactivity of McClellan - President's Order for a General Advance -Active Operations in the West - Battle of Middle ...
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... BATTLE OF ANTIETAM - INCIDENTS CONNECTED WITH IT - HOW RECEIVED . IT T is clear , from several paragraphs in the President's mes- sage , and it is known from other sources , that the slavery question occupied Mr. Lincoln's most anxious ...
... BATTLE OF ANTIETAM - INCIDENTS CONNECTED WITH IT - HOW RECEIVED . IT T is clear , from several paragraphs in the President's mes- sage , and it is known from other sources , that the slavery question occupied Mr. Lincoln's most anxious ...
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... battle of Antietam , and just before the issuing of the proclamation , the President said to his Cabi- net : " The time for the annunciation of the emancipation policy can no longer be delayed . Public sentiment will sus- tain it . Many ...
... battle of Antietam , and just before the issuing of the proclamation , the President said to his Cabi- net : " The time for the annunciation of the emancipation policy can no longer be delayed . Public sentiment will sus- tain it . Many ...
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... battle of Antietam , and I determined to wait no longer . The news came , I think , on Wednesday , that the advantage was on our side . I was then staying at the Soldiers ' Home , ( three miles out of Washington . ) Here I finished ...
... battle of Antietam , and I determined to wait no longer . The news came , I think , on Wednesday , that the advantage was on our side . I was then staying at the Soldiers ' Home , ( three miles out of Washington . ) Here I finished ...
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... BATTLES OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN - ANTIETAM - -PRESI- DENT VISITS THE ARMY - URGES MCCLELLAN TO ATTACK MCCLELLAN DELAYS - HE IS RELIEVED OF COMMAND- FAILURE BURNSIDE - FREDERICKSBURG MOVEMENTS IN THE WEST - - BATTLE OF PERRYVILLE - CORINTH ...
... BATTLES OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN - ANTIETAM - -PRESI- DENT VISITS THE ARMY - URGES MCCLELLAN TO ATTACK MCCLELLAN DELAYS - HE IS RELIEVED OF COMMAND- FAILURE BURNSIDE - FREDERICKSBURG MOVEMENTS IN THE WEST - - BATTLE OF PERRYVILLE - CORINTH ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 175 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 622 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Página 580 - To plague the inventor; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Página 299 - 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 first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Página 622 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Página 309 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Página 176 - 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 502 - ... immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that, at the earliest practicable moment, peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States.
Página 621 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Página 114 - 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 push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in...