Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. Showing the Inner Growth, Special Training, and Peculiar Fitness of the Man for His WorkFords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1884 - 508 páginas |
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... Congress- Capture of United States Forts and Forces - A Campaign of Statesmanship- Vain Premonitions - A Last Meeting . 192 PRESIDENT , . CHAPTER XXVII . · . Speaking to the Nation - Diplomacy - Journey to Washington - In the Ene- my's ...
... Congress- Capture of United States Forts and Forces - A Campaign of Statesmanship- Vain Premonitions - A Last Meeting . 192 PRESIDENT , . CHAPTER XXVII . · . Speaking to the Nation - Diplomacy - Journey to Washington - In the Ene- my's ...
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... CONGRESS , The Legislative Branch - The Committee on the Conduct of the War - Useful Interference - Councils and Umpires - Political Complications Beginning - Ci- vilian and Soldier . 267 275 281 289 I CHAPTER XXXVIII . THE PENINSULAR ...
... CONGRESS , The Legislative Branch - The Committee on the Conduct of the War - Useful Interference - Councils and Umpires - Political Complications Beginning - Ci- vilian and Soldier . 267 275 281 289 I CHAPTER XXXVIII . THE PENINSULAR ...
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... Congress - Presenting the President's Case - Preparing the Po- litical Future - Visitors at the White House - Wearing Away - Unconditional Unionism Portrayed - Voices of Good - will from Europe - The Gettysburg Speech . CHAPTER L. THE ...
... Congress - Presenting the President's Case - Preparing the Po- litical Future - Visitors at the White House - Wearing Away - Unconditional Unionism Portrayed - Voices of Good - will from Europe - The Gettysburg Speech . CHAPTER L. THE ...
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... Congress of the United States has no power , under the Constitution , to interfere with the insti- tution of slavery in the different States . " They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power , under the Constitution ...
... Congress of the United States has no power , under the Constitution , to interfere with the insti- tution of slavery in the different States . " They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power , under the Constitution ...
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... Congress . He received , throughout the canvass , the active support of the defeated aspirant . In the year 1844 , Mr. Lincoln's political idol , Henry Clay , was nominated by the Whigs for the Presidency , and Lincoln was once more ...
... Congress . He received , throughout the canvass , the active support of the defeated aspirant . In the year 1844 , Mr. Lincoln's political idol , Henry Clay , was nominated by the Whigs for the Presidency , and Lincoln was once more ...
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Página 465 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 449 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Página 368 - Commander-in-Chief of the army and 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...
Página 466 - 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 171 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that 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 450 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Página 368 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the fortyeight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...
Página 465 - 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 336 - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Página 450 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years...