The History of Abraham Lincoln, and the Overthrow of SlaveryClarke & Company, 1866 - 720 páginas |
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... patriotism , constancy , love of liberty , wisdom , and statesmanship , which , by your legislation and influence , contributed so largely to redeem and save the Republic , I desire respectfully to dedicate this work . It was your ...
... patriotism , constancy , love of liberty , wisdom , and statesmanship , which , by your legislation and influence , contributed so largely to redeem and save the Republic , I desire respectfully to dedicate this work . It was your ...
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... patriotism , and self - denial , which saved the republic . This young , enthusiastic and energetic people , themselves improvised armies , the numbers of which had no parallel ; their ingenuity , industry and invention , supplied arms ...
... patriotism , and self - denial , which saved the republic . This young , enthusiastic and energetic people , themselves improvised armies , the numbers of which had no parallel ; their ingenuity , industry and invention , supplied arms ...
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... patriotism . John Van Buren brought into this campaign an indignant personal feeling towards those who " done his father to death , " and a fiery e'oquence , wit , and sarcasm , which rendered him a great popular favorite , and secured ...
... patriotism . John Van Buren brought into this campaign an indignant personal feeling towards those who " done his father to death , " and a fiery e'oquence , wit , and sarcasm , which rendered him a great popular favorite , and secured ...
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... patriotic speech before the Legislature of Illinois in April , 1861 , and at Chi- cago soon afterwards . Dying in June thereafter , he left those great utterances as his richest legacies to posterity . His ashes repose on the bank of ...
... patriotic speech before the Legislature of Illinois in April , 1861 , and at Chi- cago soon afterwards . Dying in June thereafter , he left those great utterances as his richest legacies to posterity . His ashes repose on the bank of ...
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... patriotic emotions , and command the admiration and love of every American heart . By these associations , I adjure you to regard the contract once made to harmonize and preserve this Union . Maintain the Missouri Compro- mise ! Stir ...
... patriotic emotions , and command the admiration and love of every American heart . By these associations , I adjure you to regard the contract once made to harmonize and preserve this Union . Maintain the Missouri Compro- mise ! Stir ...
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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...