Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, Volumen2Century Company, 1894 |
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... course here indicated will be followed unless current events and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper , and in every case and exigency my best dis- cretion will be exercised according to circumstances actually ...
... course here indicated will be followed unless current events and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper , and in every case and exigency my best dis- cretion will be exercised according to circumstances actually ...
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... course of service in its defense , the Federal Govern- ment exercises a clear right and , under all ordinary circumstances , per- forms a plain duty . I return , therefore , an affirmative answer to the question submitted to me , And ...
... course of service in its defense , the Federal Govern- ment exercises a clear right and , under all ordinary circumstances , per- forms a plain duty . I return , therefore , an affirmative answer to the question submitted to me , And ...
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... course of policy that may be pursued , but I am not prepared to advise a course that would provoke hostilities . It does not appear to me that the dignity , strength , or character of the government will be promoted by an attempt to ...
... course of policy that may be pursued , but I am not prepared to advise a course that would provoke hostilities . It does not appear to me that the dignity , strength , or character of the government will be promoted by an attempt to ...
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... course , the measure will be ex- tremely disastrous and the administration will become very unpopular . If , however , the country can be made to understand that the fort is aban- doned from necessity , and at the same time Fort Pickens ...
... course , the measure will be ex- tremely disastrous and the administration will become very unpopular . If , however , the country can be made to understand that the fort is aban- doned from necessity , and at the same time Fort Pickens ...
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... course I intend to pursue . Not having as yet seen occasion to change , it is now my purpose to pursue the course marked out in the inaugural address . I commend a careful consideration of the whole document as the best expression I can ...
... course I intend to pursue . Not having as yet seen occasion to change , it is now my purpose to pursue the course marked out in the inaugural address . I commend a careful consideration of the whole document as the best expression I can ...
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Página 587 - ... the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his...
Página 587 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives . to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Página 472 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Página 211 - ... 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 56 - Must a Government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence...
Página 5 - Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.
Página 221 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
Página 240 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Página 3 - 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.
Página 269 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons. And yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which, I am not quite satisfied with you.