Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His TimeAllen Thorndike Rice North American Publishing Company, 1886 - 668 páginas |
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... House . And Roscoe Conkling tells me that it is not news to him . One morning , a year before he died , Mr. Weed said to me : He " Governor Seymour was here yesterday . stayed to dinner , and we had a good talk about old times . I spoke ...
... House . And Roscoe Conkling tells me that it is not news to him . One morning , a year before he died , Mr. Weed said to me : He " Governor Seymour was here yesterday . stayed to dinner , and we had a good talk about old times . I spoke ...
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... house of the Legislature . I landed at Galena by a Mississippi River steam- boat , on the first day of April , 1840 , ten years after Hanks and Lincoln were splitting rails in Macon County . The country was then fairly entered on that ...
... house of the Legislature . I landed at Galena by a Mississippi River steam- boat , on the first day of April , 1840 , ten years after Hanks and Lincoln were splitting rails in Macon County . The country was then fairly entered on that ...
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... house of Legislature during the service of Mr. Lincoln , who became afterward distinguished in the political history of the State , and among them might be mentioned Orlando B. Ficklin , John T. Stuart , William A. Richardson , John A ...
... house of Legislature during the service of Mr. Lincoln , who became afterward distinguished in the political history of the State , and among them might be mentioned Orlando B. Ficklin , John T. Stuart , William A. Richardson , John A ...
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... House , and among the number the accomplished scholar and unrivaled orator , Lisle Smith . He sud- denly interrupted the conversation by exclaiming , " There is Lincoln on the other side of the street . Just look at Old Abe , ' " and ...
... House , and among the number the accomplished scholar and unrivaled orator , Lisle Smith . He sud- denly interrupted the conversation by exclaiming , " There is Lincoln on the other side of the street . Just look at Old Abe , ' " and ...
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... House of Representatives , and for the long session was so unfortunate as to draw one of the most undesirable seats in the hall . He par- ticipated but little in the active business of the House 2 BY ELIHU B. WAShburne . 17.
... House of Representatives , and for the long session was so unfortunate as to draw one of the most undesirable seats in the hall . He par- ticipated but little in the active business of the House 2 BY ELIHU B. WAShburne . 17.
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Página 63 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Página 75 - 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 it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Página 65 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Página 349 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Página 74 - Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes.
Página 467 - 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 54 - It follows from these views that no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence within any state or states against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Página 215 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 85 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.
Página 215 - 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...