History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclamations, and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of His Life |
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It was a difficult , wearisome , trying journey , and Mr. Lincoln often said , that he
never passed through a harder experience than he did in going from Thompson's
Ferry to Spencer county , Indiana . ” Thus , before he was eight years old ...
It was a difficult , wearisome , trying journey , and Mr. Lincoln often said , that he
never passed through a harder experience than he did in going from Thompson's
Ferry to Spencer county , Indiana . ” Thus , before he was eight years old ...
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the satisfaction of seeing him read that Book which he has never since neglected
. After a while he learned to write . This was an accomplishment which some of
the friendly neighbors thought unnecessary , but his father quietly persisted , and
...
the satisfaction of seeing him read that Book which he has never since neglected
. After a while he learned to write . This was an accomplishment which some of
the friendly neighbors thought unnecessary , but his father quietly persisted , and
...
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Its effect may be traced in the following story , which bids fair to become as never
failing an accompaniment to a Life of Lincoln as the hatchet case to that of
Washington . Mr. Crawford had lent him a copy of Ramsay's Life of Washington .
Its effect may be traced in the following story , which bids fair to become as never
failing an accompaniment to a Life of Lincoln as the hatchet case to that of
Washington . Mr. Crawford had lent him a copy of Ramsay's Life of Washington .
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ous character of his client , who , though somewhat rowdyish , had never been
known to commit a vicious act ; and to show that a greater degree of ill - feeling
existed between the accuser and the accused , than the accused and the
deceased ...
ous character of his client , who , though somewhat rowdyish , had never been
known to commit a vicious act ; and to show that a greater degree of ill - feeling
existed between the accuser and the accused , than the accused and the
deceased ...
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His interest in politics never subsided , and in 1844 he stumped the entire State
of Illinois during the Presidential campaign . We have before mentioned that one
of his earliest books was the “ Life of Henry Clay , " and his enthusiastic ...
His interest in politics never subsided , and in 1844 he stumped the entire State
of Illinois during the Presidential campaign . We have before mentioned that one
of his earliest books was the “ Life of Henry Clay , " and his enthusiastic ...
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Página 120 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 215 - ... 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...
Página 215 - 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, 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 433 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder: and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress or by decision of the Supreme Court...
Página 312 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and when after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.
Página 211 - 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 139 - Must a Government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence...
Página 117 - A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Página 118 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 114 - Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not, in any case, surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that "the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States"?
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| Título | History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclamations, and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of His Life |
| Autor | Henry Jarvis Raymond |
| Editor | J.C. Derby & N.C. Miller, 1864 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 20 Nov. 2007 |
| Largo | 496 páginas |
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