Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, Volumen64J.M. Dent & Company, 1894 - 237 páginas |
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... allowed the consideration to fail . There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are neces- sarily dishonest . I say vague , because when we consider to what extent confidence and honours are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the ...
... allowed the consideration to fail . There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are neces- sarily dishonest . I say vague , because when we consider to what extent confidence and honours are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the ...
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... allowed ; but as you see by the Kansas slave code , which , as you know , is the Missouri slave code , merely ferried across the river , it is a felony to even express an opinion hostile to that foul blot in the land of Washington and ...
... allowed ; but as you see by the Kansas slave code , which , as you know , is the Missouri slave code , merely ferried across the river , it is a felony to even express an opinion hostile to that foul blot in the land of Washington and ...
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... allowed to object . And if you can do this in free Kansas , and it is allowed to stand , the next thing you will see is ship - loads of negroes from Africa at the wharf at Charleston ; for one thing is as truly lawful as the other ; and ...
... allowed to object . And if you can do this in free Kansas , and it is allowed to stand , the next thing you will see is ship - loads of negroes from Africa at the wharf at Charleston ; for one thing is as truly lawful as the other ; and ...
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... allowed to continue , it will be but one step further to impress the same rule in Illinois . [ Sensation . ] The conclusion of all is , that we must restore the Missouri Compromise . We must highly resolve that Kansas must be free ...
... allowed to continue , it will be but one step further to impress the same rule in Illinois . [ Sensation . ] The conclusion of all is , that we must restore the Missouri Compromise . We must highly resolve that Kansas must be free ...
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... allowed to object . That argument was incorporated into the Nebraska bill itself , in the language which follows : " It being the true intent and meaning of this act , not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State , nor to ...
... allowed to object . That argument was incorporated into the Nebraska bill itself , in the language which follows : " It being the true intent and meaning of this act , not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State , nor to ...
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Página 169 - 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 208 - 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 217 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final restingplace for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Página 179 - 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 198 - I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 207 - ... 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, 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 proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Página 206 - 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 74 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Página 86 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Página 227 - Dear Madam : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who • have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.