The Character and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United StatesDinsmoor, 1864 - 75 páginas |
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... here is the true philosophy of his magnetic influence in social life . He had no enemies among the young or old . Even his political opponents were not his : enemies they respected him as a generous , noble 20 THE PIONEER BOY AS PRESIDENT .
... here is the true philosophy of his magnetic influence in social life . He had no enemies among the young or old . Even his political opponents were not his : enemies they respected him as a generous , noble 20 THE PIONEER BOY AS PRESIDENT .
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... political enemies in Missouri in their defeat , sustaining his political friends in Maryland in their victory ; conservative in his sympathies , and radical in his acts ; Socratic in his style , and Baconian in his method ; his religion ...
... political enemies in Missouri in their defeat , sustaining his political friends in Maryland in their victory ; conservative in his sympathies , and radical in his acts ; Socratic in his style , and Baconian in his method ; his religion ...
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... political philosophy , and poetic beauty , it was never surpassed . It will bear comparison with the most felicitous epistolary efforts of the greatest statesmen of this or other lands . Mrs. Stowe , the celebrated authoress , speaking ...
... political philosophy , and poetic beauty , it was never surpassed . It will bear comparison with the most felicitous epistolary efforts of the greatest statesmen of this or other lands . Mrs. Stowe , the celebrated authoress , speaking ...
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... political hon- esty and conscientiousness : what could loyalty do ? Fare- well to our Republican Government , farewell to our liber- ties and national glory , if such a man were our President ! - a man In this hour of peril , we need an ...
... political hon- esty and conscientiousness : what could loyalty do ? Fare- well to our Republican Government , farewell to our liber- ties and national glory , if such a man were our President ! - a man In this hour of peril , we need an ...
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William M. Thayer. give for the proof of deceit and political fraud in Abraham Lincoln ? It would be worth the price of our national de- struction to them , since they might use it to destroy us . Ah ! never before did this country have ...
William M. Thayer. give for the proof of deceit and political fraud in Abraham Lincoln ? It would be worth the price of our national de- struction to them , since they might use it to destroy us . Ah ! never before did this country have ...
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Página 12 - 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...
Página 62 - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Página 8 - no one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century. Here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again.
Página 11 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Página 12 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 32 - Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Página 10 - It is true, as has been said by the president of the Senate, that very great responsibility rests upon me in the position to which the votes of the American people have called me. I am deeply sensible of that weighty responsibility. I cannot but know what you all know...
Página 27 - Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb.
Página 44 - Blondin, stand up a little straighter — Blondin, stoop a little more — go a little faster — lean a little more to the north — lean a little more to the south.
Página 57 - As I understand, you telegraphed General Halleck that you cannot subsist your army at Winchester unless the railroad from Harper's Ferry to that point be put in working order. But the enemy does now subsist his army at Winchester, at a distance nearly twice as great from railroad transportation as you would have to do without the railroad last named.