History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclamations, and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of His LifeJ. C. Derby & N. C. Miller, 1864 - 496 páginas |
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... oath of office . That is what I meant by " the custom of the country . " I do suppose that , while the political drama being enacted in this country , at this time , is rapidly shifting its scenes - forbidding an anticipation , with any ...
... oath of office . That is what I meant by " the custom of the country . " I do suppose that , while the political drama being enacted in this country , at this time , is rapidly shifting its scenes - forbidding an anticipation , with any ...
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... oath and assumed the duties of the Presidential office . He was quite right in saying , on the eve of his departure from his home in Springfield , that those duties were greater than had devolved upon any other man since the days of ...
... oath and assumed the duties of the Presidential office . He was quite right in saying , on the eve of his departure from his home in Springfield , that those duties were greater than had devolved upon any other man since the days of ...
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... oath of office Mr. LINCOLN delivered the following INAUGURAL ADDRESS . Fellow - Citizens of the United States : In compliance with a custom as old as the Government itself , I ap- pear before you to address you briefly , and to take in ...
... oath of office Mr. LINCOLN delivered the following INAUGURAL ADDRESS . Fellow - Citizens of the United States : In compliance with a custom as old as the Government itself , I ap- pear before you to address you briefly , and to take in ...
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... oaths are unanimous . Now , if they would make the effort in good temper , could they not , with nearly equal unanimity , frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath ? There is some difference of opinion ...
... oaths are unanimous . Now , if they would make the effort in good temper , could they not , with nearly equal unanimity , frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath ? There is some difference of opinion ...
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... oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve , protect , and defend " it . I am loth to close . We are not enemies , but friends . We must not be enemies . Though passion may ...
... oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve , protect , and defend " it . I am loth to close . We are not enemies , but friends . We must not be enemies . Though passion may ...
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Página 463 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Página 210 - seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with...
Página 113 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 128 - 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 211 - I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oftexpressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.
Página 118 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 215 - 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 218 - ... 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 78 - Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support, and I hope you, my friends, will all pray that I may receive that Divine assistance, without which I cannot succeed, but with which, success is certain. Again I bid you all an affectionate farewell.
Página 118 - Constitution and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great...