The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and DeathDerby and Miller, 1865 - 808 páginas Includes added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by F.B. Carpenter. |
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... regard you manifested for me ; but I do hope that , on more mature reflection , you will view the public interest as a paramount consideration , and therefore determine to let the worst come . I here assure you that the candid statement ...
... regard you manifested for me ; but I do hope that , on more mature reflection , you will view the public interest as a paramount consideration , and therefore determine to let the worst come . I here assure you that the candid statement ...
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... regard to the previous character of his client , who , though somewhat rowdyish , had never been known to commit a vicious act ; and to show that a greater degree of ill feeling existed between the accuser and the accused , than the ...
... regard to the previous character of his client , who , though somewhat rowdyish , had never been known to commit a vicious act ; and to show that a greater degree of ill feeling existed between the accuser and the accused , than the ...
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... regard as gratuitous and puerile any argument , the purpose of which should be to prove that Mr. Lincoln's action upon this Mexican- question was governed by the same inflexible ideas of honor and right which ruled him so unwaveringly ...
... regard as gratuitous and puerile any argument , the purpose of which should be to prove that Mr. Lincoln's action upon this Mexican- question was governed by the same inflexible ideas of honor and right which ruled him so unwaveringly ...
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... regard to his support of it , when he declares the last years of his life have been , and all the future years of his life shall be , devoted to this matter of popular sovereignty . What is it ? Why , it is the sovereignty of the people ...
... regard to his support of it , when he declares the last years of his life have been , and all the future years of his life shall be , devoted to this matter of popular sovereignty . What is it ? Why , it is the sovereignty of the people ...
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... regard to words . I know what I meant , and I will not leave this crowd in doubt , if I can explain it to them , what I really meant in the use of that paragraph . I am not , in the first place , unaware that this Government has endured ...
... regard to words . I know what I meant , and I will not leave this crowd in doubt , if I can explain it to them , what I really meant in the use of that paragraph . I am not , in the first place , unaware that this Government has endured ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN action Administration adopted aforesaid amendment Andrew Johnson April army arrest authority believe bill called cause citizens City Point command Congress Constitution Convention Corps declared Department dispatch Douglas duty election emancipation enemy EXECUTIVE MANSION favor Federal force Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe friends give Government Governor Grant Greeley habeas corpus Halleck honor HORACE GREELEY House hundred issued John Wilkes Booth July Kentucky labor letter liberty loyal Major-General March McClellan ment military Missouri navy North Carolina o'clock officers party passed peace persons political position Potomac present President Lincoln President's proclamation purpose question re-enforcements rebel rebellion received reply Republican resolution Richmond River Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent sentiment Seward slavery slaves soldiers South speech territory thing thousand tion troops Union United Virginia vote WAR DEPARTMENT Washington whole York
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Página 258 - States ; and the fact that. any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Página 260 - ... 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 162 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 50 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Página 258 - 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 258 - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Página 358 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Página 251 - 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 them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
Página 229 - Resolved that the United States ought to co-operate with any state which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such state pecuniary aid, to be used by such state in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences public and private, produced by such change of system.
Página 241 - ... and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them and coming under the control of the Government of the United States...