Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and Speeches in and Out of Congress; Also, a General View of His Policy as President of the United States; with His Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., and a History of His Eventful Administration, and of the Scenes Attendant Upon His Tragic and Lamented DemiseMoore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1865 - 842 páginas |
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... given with perhaps a disappointing brevity . It must suffice to say , here , that no pains have been spared - as no requi- site facilities for obtaining correct data have been lacking - to make the work not only trustworthy and complete ...
... given with perhaps a disappointing brevity . It must suffice to say , here , that no pains have been spared - as no requi- site facilities for obtaining correct data have been lacking - to make the work not only trustworthy and complete ...
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... given in this connection , as at once illustrating the earlier struggles of Mr. Lincoln in acquiring his profession , the character of his forensic efforts , and the generous gratitude and disinterestedness of his nature : Having chosen ...
... given in this connection , as at once illustrating the earlier struggles of Mr. Lincoln in acquiring his profession , the character of his forensic efforts , and the generous gratitude and disinterestedness of his nature : Having chosen ...
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... given Mr. Clay a majority of 914 in 1844 , on the most thorough canvass . It gave Mr. Lin- coln a majority af 1,511 , which was entirely unprecedented , and has been unequaled by that given there for any opposition candidate , for any ...
... given Mr. Clay a majority of 914 in 1844 , on the most thorough canvass . It gave Mr. Lin- coln a majority af 1,511 , which was entirely unprecedented , and has been unequaled by that given there for any opposition candidate , for any ...
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... given in mere party wantonness , and that the one given is justly censurable , if it have no other or better foundation . I am one of those who joined in that vote ; and did so under my best impression of the truth of the case . How I ...
... given in mere party wantonness , and that the one given is justly censurable , if it have no other or better foundation . I am one of those who joined in that vote ; and did so under my best impression of the truth of the case . How I ...
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... given us the most splendid suc- cesses - every department , and every part , land and water , officers and privates , regulars and volunteers , doing all that men could do , and hundreds of things which it had ever before been thought ...
... given us the most splendid suc- cesses - every department , and every part , land and water , officers and privates , regulars and volunteers , doing all that men could do , and hundreds of things which it had ever before been thought ...
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Página 190 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Página 197 - Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Página 130 - 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 195 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Página 417 - Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Página 735 - 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. The prayers of both could not be answered — that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe to that man...
Página 112 - But if the Negro is a man, is it not to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government— that is despotism. If the Negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal," and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
Página 207 - Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon, the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Página 735 - South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense 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 of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the...
Página 70 - Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.