Lincoln's Words on Living Questions: A Collection of All the Recorded Utterances of Abraham Lincoln Bearing Upon the Questions of TodayTrusty Publishing Company, 1900 - 175 páginas |
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... President , Duties and Powers of . .86 , 89 , 97 , 102 Silver , Gold , Greenbacks , Money . Suffrage and Elections .. Tariff .. 170-186 122-134 186-190 Temperance , War , Peace . War , Temperance , Peace . 227-250 227-250 AUTOBIOGRAPHY ...
... President , Duties and Powers of . .86 , 89 , 97 , 102 Silver , Gold , Greenbacks , Money . Suffrage and Elections .. Tariff .. 170-186 122-134 186-190 Temperance , War , Peace . War , Temperance , Peace . 227-250 227-250 AUTOBIOGRAPHY ...
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... presidents , not with office - seekers , but with you , is the question : Shall the Union and shall the liberties . of this country be preserved to the latest genera- tions ? 28 ( November 19 , 1858 , Letter to H. Asbury - Herndon , p ...
... presidents , not with office - seekers , but with you , is the question : Shall the Union and shall the liberties . of this country be preserved to the latest genera- tions ? 28 ( November 19 , 1858 , Letter to H. Asbury - Herndon , p ...
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... president , shall expressly or impliedly seize and exercise the permanent legislative functions of the government . 87 ( March 4 , 1861 , First Inaugural - Raymond , p . 168. ) By the frame of the government under which we live , the ...
... president , shall expressly or impliedly seize and exercise the permanent legislative functions of the government . 87 ( March 4 , 1861 , First Inaugural - Raymond , p . 168. ) By the frame of the government under which we live , the ...
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... president , shall expressly or impliedly seize and exercise the permanent legislative func- tions of the government . 87 ( March 4 , 1861 , First Inaugural - Raymond , p . 168. ) By the frame of the government under which we live , the ...
... president , shall expressly or impliedly seize and exercise the permanent legislative func- tions of the government . 87 ( March 4 , 1861 , First Inaugural - Raymond , p . 168. ) By the frame of the government under which we live , the ...
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... President , I should desire the legislation of the country to rest with Congress un- influenced by the executive in its origin or progress and undisturbed by the veto unless in very special and clear cases . 90 ( February 15 , 1848 ...
... President , I should desire the legislation of the country to rest with Congress un- influenced by the executive in its origin or progress and undisturbed by the veto unless in very special and clear cases . 90 ( February 15 , 1848 ...
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Página 78 - I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Página 91 - 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 148 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it...
Página 39 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Página 60 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Página 173 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St.
Página 148 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Página 72 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. 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 172 - 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 143 - If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored — contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong : vain as the search for a man who should be neither a living man nor a dead man ; such as a policy of