Illustrated Life, Services, Martyrdom, and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln ...: With a Portrait of President Lincoln, and Other Illustrative Engravings of the Scene of the Assassination, Etc. ...David Brainerd Williamson T.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1867 - 285 páginas |
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... Fort Sumter , I shall hold myself at liberty to repossess it , if I can , like places which had been seized before the Government was devolved upon me , and in any event I shall , to the best of my ability , repel force by force . In ...
... Fort Sumter , I shall hold myself at liberty to repossess it , if I can , like places which had been seized before the Government was devolved upon me , and in any event I shall , to the best of my ability , repel force by force . In ...
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... Forts Pickens , Taylor , and Jefferson , on and near the Florida coast , and Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor , South Carolina . The forts thus seized had been put in improved condition , new ones had been built , and armed forces had ...
... Forts Pickens , Taylor , and Jefferson , on and near the Florida coast , and Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor , South Carolina . The forts thus seized had been put in improved condition , new ones had been built , and armed forces had ...
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... Fort Sumter , written on the 28th of February and received at the War Department on the 4th of March , was by that Department placed in his hands . This letter expressed the professional opinion of the writer , that reinforcements could ...
... Fort Sumter , written on the 28th of February and received at the War Department on the 4th of March , was by that Department placed in his hands . This letter expressed the professional opinion of the writer , that reinforcements could ...
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... Fort Sumter , which expedition was intended to be ulti- mately used or not , according to circumstances . The strongest anticipated case for using it was now presented , and it was re- solved to send it forward as had been intended . In ...
... Fort Sumter , which expedition was intended to be ulti- mately used or not , according to circumstances . The strongest anticipated case for using it was now presented , and it was re- solved to send it forward as had been intended . In ...
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... Fort Sumter fell . To this body the people had chosen a large majority of pro- fessed Union men . Almost immediately after the fall of Sum- ter many members of that majority went over to the original disunion minority , and with them ...
... Fort Sumter fell . To this body the people had chosen a large majority of pro- fessed Union men . Almost immediately after the fall of Sum- ter many members of that majority went over to the original disunion minority , and with them ...
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Abolitionism ABRAHAM LINCOLN adopted April army assassin authority believe called capital caused the seal citizens City of Washington command Congress Constitution Convention declared deem duty election emancipation Emancipation Proclamation Executive existing fathers favor Federal Federal territories Fellow-citizens force Ford's Theatre Fort Pickens Fort Sumter friends give habeas corpus heart hereby hereunto set honor hope House Illinois inaugural Independence insurrection issued labor land liberty Lord one thousand Louisiana loyal Mayor McClellan ment military nation Navy never oath occasion officers party patriotism peace persons political present President Lincoln principle proclamation proper purpose question rebel rebellion received Republican SCHUYLER COLFAX seceded Secretary Secretary of War Senate sentiments set my hand SEWARD slavery slaves South South Carolina speak Sumter territory thereof thing thousand eight hundred tion treason Union United vote Whereas whole WILLIAM H words
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Página 89 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 131 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Página 97 - Whereas, The laws of the United States have been for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Página 91 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Página 94 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before ? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends...
Página 94 - 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 134 - 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 92 - All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guarantees and prohibitions, in the Constitution that controversies never arise concerning them. But no organic law can ever be framed -with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration.
Página 90 - Association in 177-4. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution, was "to form a more perfect Union.
Página 131 - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...