History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclamations, and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of His LifeJ.C. Derby & N.C. Miller, 1864 - 496 páginas |
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... emancipation , that they must , if they would do this , go back to the era of our Independence and muzzle the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return ; they must blow out the moral lights around us ; they must penetrate the human ...
... emancipation , that they must , if they would do this , go back to the era of our Independence and muzzle the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return ; they must blow out the moral lights around us ; they must penetrate the human ...
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... not at the preservation of the Union , but the emancipation of the slaves ; and there was great danger that these appeals to the pride , the interest , and the prejudices of the Border Slave 152 PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S ADMINISTRATION .
... not at the preservation of the Union , but the emancipation of the slaves ; and there was great danger that these appeals to the pride , the interest , and the prejudices of the Border Slave 152 PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S ADMINISTRATION .
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... emancipate the slaves , or that it would bear any such construction in the courts of justice . They repudiated the idea that men in arms against the Union and Constitution could claim the protection of the Constitution , and thus derive ...
... emancipate the slaves , or that it would bear any such construction in the courts of justice . They repudiated the idea that men in arms against the Union and Constitution could claim the protection of the Constitution , and thus derive ...
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... emancipation of all the slaves , but to put arms in their hands and employ them in the field against the rebels . But they were ineffectual . The President ad- hered firmly and steadily to the policy which the then exist- ing ...
... emancipation of all the slaves , but to put arms in their hands and employ them in the field against the rebels . But they were ineffectual . The President ad- hered firmly and steadily to the policy which the then exist- ing ...
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... emancipate slaves whenever and wherever such action would tend to weaken the rebellion ; and the gen- eral policy of the Government upon this subject became the theme of protracted and animated debate . The orders issued by the generals ...
... emancipate slaves whenever and wherever such action would tend to weaken the rebellion ; and the gen- eral policy of the Government upon this subject became the theme of protracted and animated debate . The orders issued by the generals ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ABRAHAM LINCOLN action Administration adopted Alexandria amendment arms army arrests authority battle believe bill capital citizens command Congress Constitution Convention corps declared deemed Department dispatch duty election emancipation enemy EXECUTIVE MANSION existing favor force foreign Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe Fredericksburg give Government Governor habeas corpus Halleck Heintzelman House insurgents insurrection issued James River Kentucky labor letter liberty loyal Major-General Maryland McClellan McDowell measures ment military Missouri naval navy necessity oath object officers opinion party peace persons political Pope position Potomac present President LINCOLN proclamation public safety purpose question re-enforcements rebel rebellion received regard reply Republican resolution Richmond river seceded Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent sentiment session Seward slavery slaves South South Carolina Tennessee territory thing tion troops Union United Vallandigham Virginia vote Washington whole
Pasajes populares
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"?