The Life and Public Services of Abraham LincolnDaily Independent Steam Power Print, 1884 - 318 páginas |
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Página 62
... Southern members of the Whig party acted and voted with the Whigs of the free States . Robert Toombs , A. H. Stephens , Thomas B. King , and others , made their record as against the war . On the first of June the National Whig ...
... Southern members of the Whig party acted and voted with the Whigs of the free States . Robert Toombs , A. H. Stephens , Thomas B. King , and others , made their record as against the war . On the first of June the National Whig ...
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... southern portion that had made it a powerful national party . On the vote to repeal the Missouri compromise , the Southern Whigs had united and voted with the Democrats , and this union created two sectional parties - the opposition to ...
... southern portion that had made it a powerful national party . On the vote to repeal the Missouri compromise , the Southern Whigs had united and voted with the Democrats , and this union created two sectional parties - the opposition to ...
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... compel him into such declarations on behalf of freedom as would ruin him as a Southern candidate for the Presidency . This concession of Douglas to free- dom , without doubt saved him the Senatorship , while OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 85.
... compel him into such declarations on behalf of freedom as would ruin him as a Southern candidate for the Presidency . This concession of Douglas to free- dom , without doubt saved him the Senatorship , while OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 85.
Página 86
... Southern support in his Presidential aspirations . Pollard , the Southern historian , in his history of the " Lost Cause , " says : " It is thus seen that Mr. Douglas has tortured the language of the Kansas- Nebraska bill into the sense ...
... Southern support in his Presidential aspirations . Pollard , the Southern historian , in his history of the " Lost Cause , " says : " It is thus seen that Mr. Douglas has tortured the language of the Kansas- Nebraska bill into the sense ...
Página 87
... Southern Confederacy ) at Savannah , Georgia , in 1860 , will give an honest Southern opinion and be pertinent to that disputed question : Mr. Stephens said : " But whether Jefferson fully comprehended the great truth upon which that ...
... Southern Confederacy ) at Savannah , Georgia , in 1860 , will give an honest Southern opinion and be pertinent to that disputed question : Mr. Stephens said : " But whether Jefferson fully comprehended the great truth upon which that ...
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Abraham Lincoln administration appointed battle called canvass CHAPTER Christian command Confederacy Congress constitution contest Convention corps declared defeat desired Douglas Dred Scott decision duties election emancipation Emancipation Proclamation enemy engaged favor feeling Fortress Monroe freedom friends gave give Government Grant habeas corpus heart held honor hope House Illinois interest issue James river labor Lecompton constitution Legislature letter loyal citizens March McClellan measures meeting ment military Missouri movement National nomination occasion officers passed patriotic peace political popular Potomac President Lincoln President's principles proclamation question rebel army rebellion received reply Republican party resolutions result Richmond river secession Secretary Senator sentiment session Seward Sherman slave slavery soldiers soon South Southern speech Springfield success surrender tender Territories thousand tion treason troops Union army Union forces United United States Senate Vallandigham victory votes Washington Whig
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Página 256 - I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Página 176 - ... 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 113 - Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade, by less than all the parties who made it?
Página 117 - 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 113 - In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the national authority. 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...
Página 296 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Página 116 - 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 295 - 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. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory...
Página 112 - A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
Página 114 - The course here indicated will be followed, unless current events and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper...