Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, Volumen64J.M. Dent & Company, 1894 - 237 páginas |
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... father , and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty . Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap . Let it be taught in schools , in seminaries , and in ...
... father , and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty . Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap . Let it be taught in schools , in seminaries , and in ...
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... father , a son , or a brother , a living history was to be found in every family , a history bearing the indubitable testimonies to its own authenticity in the limbs mangled , in the scars of wounds received in the midst of the very ...
... father , a son , or a brother , a living history was to be found in every family , a history bearing the indubitable testimonies to its own authenticity in the limbs mangled , in the scars of wounds received in the midst of the very ...
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... father and other relatives residing in Kentucky , proposed to me that on her return she would bring a sister of hers with her on condition that I would engage to become her brother - in - law with all convenient dispatch . I , of course ...
... father and other relatives residing in Kentucky , proposed to me that on her return she would bring a sister of hers with her on condition that I would engage to become her brother - in - law with all convenient dispatch . I , of course ...
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... fathers , our brothers , our sons , and our friends pros- trate in the chains of moral death . . . . " " When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced , persuasion , kind , unassuming persuasion , should ever be adopted . It is ...
... fathers , our brothers , our sons , and our friends pros- trate in the chains of moral death . . . . " " When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced , persuasion , kind , unassuming persuasion , should ever be adopted . It is ...
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... fathers and brothers overboard to lighten the boat for our security , that the noble - minded shrank from the manifest mean- ness of the thing . And besides this , the benefits of a reformation to be effected by such a system were too ...
... fathers and brothers overboard to lighten the boat for our security , that the noble - minded shrank from the manifest mean- ness of the thing . And besides this , the benefits of a reformation to be effected by such a system were too ...
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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.