Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time: His Cause, His Character, and True Place in History, and the Men, Statesmen, Heroes, Patriots, who Formed the Illustrious League about Him, Volumen2Blakely-Oswald Printing Company, 1907 |
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... Senator - His Under- standing of the Situation .. CHAPTER Xxxv .. Agreement for Joint Debates - Douglas's Position in the Con- test - Comments on Lincoln's " High Ground " Position - Ex- tracts from Lincoln's Addresses - Conference at ...
... Senator - His Under- standing of the Situation .. CHAPTER Xxxv .. Agreement for Joint Debates - Douglas's Position in the Con- test - Comments on Lincoln's " High Ground " Position - Ex- tracts from Lincoln's Addresses - Conference at ...
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... Senate - Douglas's Disclosure of the Treason- able Plot of the Conspirators - Leaders who had been over- thrown by them in the Past - Van Buren - Cass , Webster , Pierce , Marcy , Benton , " Old Sam Houston " -Slaughter of Broderick ...
... Senate - Douglas's Disclosure of the Treason- able Plot of the Conspirators - Leaders who had been over- thrown by them in the Past - Van Buren - Cass , Webster , Pierce , Marcy , Benton , " Old Sam Houston " -Slaughter of Broderick ...
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... Senate Resolutions Platform- Breckinridge and Lane nominated - Regular Convention + --- Douglas and Johnson nominated - Cincinnati Platform re- tained as passed in Charleston Convention - A Review of Douglas and Lincoln as Contestants ...
... Senate Resolutions Platform- Breckinridge and Lane nominated - Regular Convention + --- Douglas and Johnson nominated - Cincinnati Platform re- tained as passed in Charleston Convention - A Review of Douglas and Lincoln as Contestants ...
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... Senator Mason - Klingman - Thompson Interviews - Davis - Buchanan Message to Congress - Address of certain Southern ... Senate - Douglas's Reply- Toombs's Proposition .... CHAPTER XLVII . .471 States seceding Address of Alexander H ...
... Senator Mason - Klingman - Thompson Interviews - Davis - Buchanan Message to Congress - Address of certain Southern ... Senate - Douglas's Reply- Toombs's Proposition .... CHAPTER XLVII . .471 States seceding Address of Alexander H ...
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... Senator Reverdy Johnson on Calhoun and Nullification- Howell Cobb on Secession - Albany Argus on the South- Peace Conference in Albany - Clinton's Address - Newspaper Editorials - Lewis Cass - Davis's Resolutions - A Southern ...
... Senator Reverdy Johnson on Calhoun and Nullification- Howell Cobb on Secession - Albany Argus on the South- Peace Conference in Albany - Clinton's Address - Newspaper Editorials - Lewis Cass - Davis's Resolutions - A Southern ...
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Página 521 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 519 - 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 649 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Página 700 - Nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that Nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground.
Página 199 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to and conducted by its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through,...
Página 517 - 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 510 - I can say in return, sir, that all the political sentiments I entertain have been drawn, so far as I have been able to draw them, from the sentiments which originated in and were given to the world from this hall. I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Página 517 - That the maintenance Inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 636 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Página 278 - It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great Confederacy shall be at peace, and in harmony one with another. Let us Republicans do our part to have it so. Even though much provoked, let us do nothing through passion and ill temper. Even though the Southern people will not so much as listen to us, let us calmly consider their demands, and yield to them if, in our deliberate view of our duty, we possibly can.