Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and Speeches in and Out of Congress; Also, a General View of His Policy as President of the United States; with His Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., and a History of His Eventful Administration, and of the Scenes Attendant Upon His Tragic and Lamented DemiseMoore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1865 - 842 páginas |
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... fact was known that the youth had once made such a trip , and his services were sought for the occasion . As one who had his own subsistence to earn , with no capital but his hands , and with no immediate opportunities for commencing ...
... fact was known that the youth had once made such a trip , and his services were sought for the occasion . As one who had his own subsistence to earn , with no capital but his hands , and with no immediate opportunities for commencing ...
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... fact , in alleging him to have been a grocery - keeper , though it might be no great sin had the statement been well founded . He added that , in truth , he had " never kept a grocery anywhere in the world . " The business of this ...
... fact , in alleging him to have been a grocery - keeper , though it might be no great sin had the statement been well founded . He added that , in truth , he had " never kept a grocery anywhere in the world . " The business of this ...
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... fact become reduced one - half . The wearisome marches , the delays , the privations and exposures , had proved to them that this service was no pastime , and that its romance was not what it seemed in the distance . They sickened of ...
... fact become reduced one - half . The wearisome marches , the delays , the privations and exposures , had proved to them that this service was no pastime , and that its romance was not what it seemed in the distance . They sickened of ...
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... fact that he became , on returning home , a candidate for representative in the State Legislature , the election of which was close at hand . youth of twenty - three , and not at all generally known through the county , or able , in the ...
... fact that he became , on returning home , a candidate for representative in the State Legislature , the election of which was close at hand . youth of twenty - three , and not at all generally known through the county , or able , in the ...
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... fact that he became , on returning home , a candidate for representative in the State Legislature , the election of which was close at hand . A youth of twenty - three , and not at all generally known through the county , or able , in ...
... fact that he became , on returning home , a candidate for representative in the State Legislature , the election of which was close at hand . A youth of twenty - three , and not at all generally known through the county , or able , in ...
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Página 398 - 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.
Página 398 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could do 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 211 - Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Página 445 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder...
Página 205 - Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
Página 206 - 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 398 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 126 - But if the Negro is a man, is it not to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government— that is despotism. If the Negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal," and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
Página 219 - Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon, the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Página 206 - 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 ; but, beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.