Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, Volumen2Century Company, 1894 |
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... election held in military camps , where the bayonets are all on one side of the ques- tion voted upon , can scarcely be considered as demonstrating popu- lar sentiment . At such an election , all that large class who are at once for the ...
... election held in military camps , where the bayonets are all on one side of the ques- tion voted upon , can scarcely be considered as demonstrating popu- lar sentiment . At such an election , all that large class who are at once for the ...
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... elections . Such will be a great lesson of peace : teaching men that what they cannot take by an election , neither can they take it by a war ; teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war . Lest there be some uneasiness in ...
... elections . Such will be a great lesson of peace : teaching men that what they cannot take by an election , neither can they take it by a war ; teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war . Lest there be some uneasiness in ...
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... election can only save the government from immediate destruction by giving up the main point upon which the people gave the election . The people themselves , and not their servants , can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions ...
... election can only save the government from immediate destruction by giving up the main point upon which the people gave the election . The people themselves , and not their servants , can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions ...
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... kind friends gave me the election and have approved in my public documents , we shall go through triumphantly . You VOL . II . - 6 . must not understand I took my course on the proclamation LETTERS AND STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 81.
... kind friends gave me the election and have approved in my public documents , we shall go through triumphantly . You VOL . II . - 6 . must not understand I took my course on the proclamation LETTERS AND STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 81.
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... election , have sustained the Union by a larger majority and a larger aggregate vote than they ever before gave to any candidate or any question . Kentucky , too , for some time in doubt , is now de- cidedly , and , I think ...
... election , have sustained the Union by a larger majority and a larger aggregate vote than they ever before gave to any candidate or any question . Kentucky , too , for some time in doubt , is now de- cidedly , and , I think ...
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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.