Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volumen6Century Company, 1890 |
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... Sides . Lee Retreats across the Potomac . Lincoln's Disappoint- ment • CHAPTER VIII . EMANCIPATION ANNOUNCED Defeat instead of Victory . Political Embarrassments . Lincoln's Letter to Reverdy Johnson . His Letter to Bullitt . Greeley's ...
... Sides . Lee Retreats across the Potomac . Lincoln's Disappoint- ment • CHAPTER VIII . EMANCIPATION ANNOUNCED Defeat instead of Victory . Political Embarrassments . Lincoln's Letter to Reverdy Johnson . His Letter to Bullitt . Greeley's ...
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... side having gained any decided advantage . McDowell's men were put in for the last sharp hour of fighting on Pope's left , opposite the point where Longstreet , who had come on the field without the knowledge of the Union commanders ...
... side having gained any decided advantage . McDowell's men were put in for the last sharp hour of fighting on Pope's left , opposite the point where Longstreet , who had come on the field without the knowledge of the Union commanders ...
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... turnpike . He placed , therefore , the bulk of his own army on that side and attacked with great energy early in the afternoon . Porter's corps fought with its old- 1 time bravery ; but his troops having come within the 10 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... turnpike . He placed , therefore , the bulk of his own army on that side and attacked with great energy early in the afternoon . Porter's corps fought with its old- 1 time bravery ; but his troops having come within the 10 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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... sides it was one of the hardest fought battles of the war . The day after the battle General Lee made no attempt to pursue or molest Pope's army ; but on the evening of the 1st of September he essayed his usual flanking experiment with ...
... sides it was one of the hardest fought battles of the war . The day after the battle General Lee made no attempt to pursue or molest Pope's army ; but on the evening of the 1st of September he essayed his usual flanking experiment with ...
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... the magnanimity with which he had been treated . In fact , he thought the magnanimity was all upon his side . As time wore on he continually exaggerated CHAP . I. CHAP . I. 1862 . " McClel- lan's Own Story POPE'S VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN 25.
... the magnanimity with which he had been treated . In fact , he thought the magnanimity was all upon his side . As time wore on he continually exaggerated CHAP . I. CHAP . I. 1862 . " McClel- lan's Own Story POPE'S VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN 25.
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Página 345 - 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 429 - Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation.
Página 412 - Portsmouth and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid i do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free and that the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...
Página 234 - ... lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid.
Página 412 - 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...
Página 168 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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...
Página 440 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that in all cases when allowed they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Página 153 - 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 412 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and 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...
Página 339 - The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the Divine Will demand that Sunday labor in the Army and Navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity. The discipline and character of the national forces should not suffer nor the cause they defend be imperiled by the profanation of the day or name of the Most High. 'At this time of public...