Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public ServicesB.B. Russell, 1865 - 216 páginas |
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... person who lived a few miles distant , and , returning to Kentucky on foot , made preparations to remove his family . In a few days , the party bade fare- well to their old home and slavery ; Mrs. Lincoln and her daughter riding one ...
... person who lived a few miles distant , and , returning to Kentucky on foot , made preparations to remove his family . In a few days , the party bade fare- well to their old home and slavery ; Mrs. Lincoln and her daughter riding one ...
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... person was needed , of different birth and simpler life , to represent the ideas which were now assailed . ” * There were not a few contrasts — in origin , in early life , in condition and opportunities - between Washing- ton and ...
... person was needed , of different birth and simpler life , to represent the ideas which were now assailed . ” * There were not a few contrasts — in origin , in early life , in condition and opportunities - between Washing- ton and ...
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... person of his height ; his lower limbs are not dispropor- tioned to his body . In walking , his gait , though firm , is never brisk . He steps slowly and deliberately , almost always with his head inclined forward , and his hands ...
... person of his height ; his lower limbs are not dispropor- tioned to his body . In walking , his gait , though firm , is never brisk . He steps slowly and deliberately , almost always with his head inclined forward , and his hands ...
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... person he was tall and rugged , with little The Dutchman has seasoned with freedom his krout ; And slow , late , but certain , the Quakers are out ! Give the flag to the winds ! set the hills all aflame ! Make way for the man with the ...
... person he was tall and rugged , with little The Dutchman has seasoned with freedom his krout ; And slow , late , but certain , the Quakers are out ! Give the flag to the winds ! set the hills all aflame ! Make way for the man with the ...
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... person . Perhaps the quality which struck the most at first sight was his simplicity of manners and conversation , without form or ceremony of any kind , beyond that among neigh- bors . His hand - writing had the same simplicity . It ...
... person . Perhaps the quality which struck the most at first sight was his simplicity of manners and conversation , without form or ceremony of any kind , beyond that among neigh- bors . His hand - writing had the same simplicity . It ...
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Página 146 - 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 57 - Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren; and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward.
Página 146 - 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 97 - 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. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation.
Página 192 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Página 142 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united 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 142 - St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina...
Página 124 - I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the government.
Página 141 - 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 121 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the National authority.