Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the PeopleMacmillan, 1899 - 433 páginas This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. |
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... facts to supple- ment and correct Herndon and others . Morse's biography , in the American Statesmen Series , is an orderly and serious account of Lincoln's rela- tion to the principal public questions . The other works are legion , but ...
... facts to supple- ment and correct Herndon and others . Morse's biography , in the American Statesmen Series , is an orderly and serious account of Lincoln's rela- tion to the principal public questions . The other works are legion , but ...
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... fact that at this pe- riod he sat with a schoolmate , Amy Roby , on the bank of the river , and , while both dangled their feet in the water , explained to his girl com- panion that the motion of the moon , which seemed to be rising ...
... fact that at this pe- riod he sat with a schoolmate , Amy Roby , on the bank of the river , and , while both dangled their feet in the water , explained to his girl com- panion that the motion of the moon , which seemed to be rising ...
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... facts seem to shine through the statement that Tom's rage grew out of his son's fondness for drawing passers - by into long conversations . The neighbor John Romine says : " Abe was awful lazy . He worked for me ; was always reading and ...
... facts seem to shine through the statement that Tom's rage grew out of his son's fondness for drawing passers - by into long conversations . The neighbor John Romine says : " Abe was awful lazy . He worked for me ; was always reading and ...
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... fact that Denton Offut , a business man , asked John Hanks to take a boat - load of provisions and stock to New Orleans . John engaged Lincoln and his stepbrother , John Johnson , and Offut was to pay fifty cents a day besides a sum of ...
... fact that Denton Offut , a business man , asked John Hanks to take a boat - load of provisions and stock to New Orleans . John engaged Lincoln and his stepbrother , John Johnson , and Offut was to pay fifty cents a day besides a sum of ...
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... fact that in his own precinct only 13 votes were cast against him , 10 not voting for representative , and the 12 candidates , out of a total vote of 300 , stand- ing thus : Abraham Lincoln , 277 ; John T. Stuart , 182 ; William ...
... fact that in his own precinct only 13 votes were cast against him , 10 not voting for representative , and the 12 candidates , out of a total vote of 300 , stand- ing thus : Abraham Lincoln , 277 ; John T. Stuart , 182 ; William ...
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Página 273 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
Página 189 - I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Página 409 - O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Página 404 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offences which, in the Providence of God, must needs come, but which having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge...
Página 316 - ... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Página 273 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; 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 372 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected.
Página 135 - 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. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Página 327 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...
Página 131 - I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife.