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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... convention , and was instructed to vote for E D. Baker . Of this predicament he good - naturedly said : " I shall be fixed a good deal like the fellow who is made groomsman to the man who cut him out and is marrying his 66 Abraham Lincoln.
... convention , and was instructed to vote for E D. Baker . Of this predicament he good - naturedly said : " I shall be fixed a good deal like the fellow who is made groomsman to the man who cut him out and is marrying his 66 Abraham Lincoln.
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... convention as the most available man for the nomination , and the word " availability " was repeated with much scorn by Mr. Clay's friends afterwards . Lincoln was a delegate to the convention , and he was enthusiastically in favor of ...
... convention as the most available man for the nomination , and the word " availability " was repeated with much scorn by Mr. Clay's friends afterwards . Lincoln was a delegate to the convention , and he was enthusiastically in favor of ...
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... Convention , said that the Whigs would have a most overwhelm- ing and glorious triumph , " and he added : " One un- mistakable sign is that all the odds and ends are with us - Barn - Burners , Native Americans , Tyler men , dis ...
... Convention , said that the Whigs would have a most overwhelm- ing and glorious triumph , " and he added : " One un- mistakable sign is that all the odds and ends are with us - Barn - Burners , Native Americans , Tyler men , dis ...
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... convention met , June 16 , 1858 , they declared that Abraham Lincoln was their first and only choice for the United States Senate to fill the vacancy about to be created by the expiration of Mr. Douglas's term of office . The anti ...
... convention met , June 16 , 1858 , they declared that Abraham Lincoln was their first and only choice for the United States Senate to fill the vacancy about to be created by the expiration of Mr. Douglas's term of office . The anti ...
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... convention that had nominated him , putting into it his final platform , the platform from which he was to speak to the people during the coming canvass . Lincoln read the manuscript of his speech to his partner , Mr. W. H. Herndon ...
... convention that had nominated him , putting into it his final platform , the platform from which he was to speak to the people during the coming canvass . Lincoln read the manuscript of his speech to his partner , Mr. W. H. Herndon ...
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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"