Abraham Lincoln: His Youth and Early Manhood, with a Brief Account of His Later LifeG. P. Putnam's sons, 1901 - 204 páginas |
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... Kansas . 1860 - THE COOPER UNION SPEECH . The Democratic party splits , one faction nominating John C. Breckinridge , the other , Stephen A. Douglas . The Republicans ( June 18 ) choose Abraham Lincoln as Important Events XV.
... Kansas . 1860 - THE COOPER UNION SPEECH . The Democratic party splits , one faction nominating John C. Breckinridge , the other , Stephen A. Douglas . The Republicans ( June 18 ) choose Abraham Lincoln as Important Events XV.
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... Democratic friends may suppose there is of black - cockade Federal- ism about me , and thereupon they shall take me up as their candidate for the presidency , I protest that they shall not make fun of me , as they have of General Cass ...
... Democratic friends may suppose there is of black - cockade Federal- ism about me , and thereupon they shall take me up as their candidate for the presidency , I protest that they shall not make fun of me , as they have of General Cass ...
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... Democrats to rate themselves as the hard - working bone and sinew of the land , and to stigmatize the Whigs as aristocrats , ruffled - shirted gentry . So Colonel Taylor spoke with his finery concealed under a long surtout . But when he ...
... Democrats to rate themselves as the hard - working bone and sinew of the land , and to stigmatize the Whigs as aristocrats , ruffled - shirted gentry . So Colonel Taylor spoke with his finery concealed under a long surtout . But when he ...
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... Democratic disputants were Stephen A. Douglas , John Calhoun , Josiah Lamborn , and Jesse B. Thomas . The Whig speakers were Stephen T. Logan , Edward D. Baker , Orville H. Browning , and Abraham Lincoln . All of 56 Abraham Lincoln.
... Democratic disputants were Stephen A. Douglas , John Calhoun , Josiah Lamborn , and Jesse B. Thomas . The Whig speakers were Stephen T. Logan , Edward D. Baker , Orville H. Browning , and Abraham Lincoln . All of 56 Abraham Lincoln.
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... Democrats , and General William H. Harrison by the Whigs . Lincoln was one of the presi- dential electors on the Harrison ticket , and he took a lively interest in the canvass , making speeches and going on long expeditions for the sake ...
... Democrats , and General William H. Harrison by the Whigs . Lincoln was one of the presi- dential electors on the Harrison ticket , and he took a lively interest in the canvass , making speeches and going on long expeditions for the sake ...
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Página 102 - 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 185 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said that "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 161 - ... commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one...
Página 161 - ... order and designate as 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 143 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States, that, by the accession of a Republican Administration, their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed, and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you.
Página 161 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free...
Página v - O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O CAPTAIN I my Captain ! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! 0 the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Página 105 - Volunteers — a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.
Página 12 - All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory!
Página 105 - It was a wild region with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin', writin', and cipherin"