The Life and Administration of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, Speeches, Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., with a General View of His Policy as President of the United States ... Also the European Press on His DeathGeorge Washington Bacon S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1865 - 183 páginas |
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... become evident ; it is this a great humani- tarian development had been ripening on the American continent was struggling into the world of fact . It sought a fit exponent — sought an exponent where Christianity itself had resorted ...
... become evident ; it is this a great humani- tarian development had been ripening on the American continent was struggling into the world of fact . It sought a fit exponent — sought an exponent where Christianity itself had resorted ...
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... become early imbued , although himself a Southron by birth and resi- dence . An early acquaintance with the evil wrought upon his own class by the influence of the " pecu- liar institution , " combined with an independence of spirit ...
... become early imbued , although himself a Southron by birth and resi- dence . An early acquaintance with the evil wrought upon his own class by the influence of the " pecu- liar institution , " combined with an independence of spirit ...
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... become rusty in his keeping . He was an inveterate book - worm , as far as mate- rials could be procured , from the moment of his mastery of the rudiments , and soon became the subject of remark among the neighbouring settlers for his ...
... become rusty in his keeping . He was an inveterate book - worm , as far as mate- rials could be procured , from the moment of his mastery of the rudiments , and soon became the subject of remark among the neighbouring settlers for his ...
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... become as never - failing an accompaniment to a Life of Lincoln " as the hatchet case to that of Washington : - 66 " Mr. Crawford had lent him a copy of the ' Life of Washington . ' One night he laid it down carefully , as he thought ...
... become as never - failing an accompaniment to a Life of Lincoln " as the hatchet case to that of Washington : - 66 " Mr. Crawford had lent him a copy of the ' Life of Washington . ' One night he laid it down carefully , as he thought ...
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... for the Legislature of Illinois . The prospect of success was much brighter than before , for Abraham Lincoln had become a very popular man . The first to enlist , and the last to leave , he was thought to THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 15.
... for the Legislature of Illinois . The prospect of success was much brighter than before , for Abraham Lincoln had become a very popular man . The first to enlist , and the last to leave , he was thought to THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 15.
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Página 141 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and 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 169 - States; 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
Página 142 - 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 124 - 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 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Página 78 - 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 145 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree 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 151 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses 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 offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Página 75 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.