Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators. Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglas, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and BeecherHartford Publishing Company, 1868 - 575 páginas This book contains biographies of leading statesmen, generals, and orators during the Civil War. |
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... negro girl , who had been sold within the state . A note had been given in payment for her , and the suit was brought to re- cover upon this note . Mr. Lincoln , defending , proved that Nance was free , and that thus nothing had been ...
... negro girl , who had been sold within the state . A note had been given in payment for her , and the suit was brought to re- cover upon this note . Mr. Lincoln , defending , proved that Nance was free , and that thus nothing had been ...
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... negro ought not to vote . " And even more constant is the lofty reply , " I stand by the Declaration of Independence , and the everlasting rights of humanity . The negro is a man , and he ought to have all the rights of a man ! " Mr ...
... negro ought not to vote . " And even more constant is the lofty reply , " I stand by the Declaration of Independence , and the everlasting rights of humanity . The negro is a man , and he ought to have all the rights of a man ! " Mr ...
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... negro citizenship ; " but he said " there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Inde- pendence the right of life , liberty and the pursuit of THE DEBATES WITH DOUGLAS ...
... negro citizenship ; " but he said " there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Inde- pendence the right of life , liberty and the pursuit of THE DEBATES WITH DOUGLAS ...
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... negro marauders who at tacked and would have robbed their boat . When clerk in a country store he seized , flung down and sub- dued a bully who was insolent to some women , and what is more , the beaten bully became his friend . He once ...
... negro marauders who at tacked and would have robbed their boat . When clerk in a country store he seized , flung down and sub- dued a bully who was insolent to some women , and what is more , the beaten bully became his friend . He once ...
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... negro citizen of Illinois was imprisoned at New Orleans , simply for being a free negro from outside of Louisiana , and was about to be sold into slavery , to pay jail fees , Mr. Lin- coln found that the Governor of Illinois could not ...
... negro citizen of Illinois was imprisoned at New Orleans , simply for being a free negro from outside of Louisiana , and was about to be sold into slavery , to pay jail fees , Mr. Lin- coln found that the Governor of Illinois could not ...
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Página 40 - 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. 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...
Página 80 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Página 335 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Página 68 - If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth 292 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Página 71 - The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
Página 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Página 79 - Woe unto the world because of offences ; for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.
Página 55 - If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and...
Página 66 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Página 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.