Anecdotal LincolnPaul Selby Thompson & Thomas, 1900 - 469 páginas |
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... that , while Congress had " no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery In the different States , " it had the power to abolish it in the District of Columbia , but ought not 30 LIFE OF LINCOLN .
... that , while Congress had " no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery In the different States , " it had the power to abolish it in the District of Columbia , but ought not 30 LIFE OF LINCOLN .
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... Constitution should be respected , on this question as well as all others . For this reason , he urged upon the few loyal members who still remained in Congress from the Southern States the acceptance of emancipa- tion with compensation ...
... Constitution should be respected , on this question as well as all others . For this reason , he urged upon the few loyal members who still remained in Congress from the Southern States the acceptance of emancipa- tion with compensation ...
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... Constitution of Illinois ; John J. Hardin , who fell at Buena Vista ; John Moore , afterward Lieutenant - Governor of the State ; William A. Richardson , subsequently United States Senator , and William McMurtry , who has since been ...
... Constitution of Illinois ; John J. Hardin , who fell at Buena Vista ; John Moore , afterward Lieutenant - Governor of the State ; William A. Richardson , subsequently United States Senator , and William McMurtry , who has since been ...
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... Constitution and the laws will permit , and that my opponents are for slavery . They know this , and yet , with this book in their hands , in the light of which human bondage cannot live a moment , they are going to vote against me ; I ...
... Constitution and the laws will permit , and that my opponents are for slavery . They know this , and yet , with this book in their hands , in the light of which human bondage cannot live a moment , they are going to vote against me ; I ...
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... Constitution expressly enjoins upon me , that the laws of the Union shall be faithfully executed in all the States ... Constitution : " I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States , and ...
... Constitution expressly enjoins upon me , that the laws of the Union shall be faithfully executed in all the States ... Constitution : " I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States , and ...
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Anecdotal Lincoln: Speeches, Stories, and Yarns of the Immortal Abe ... Paul Selby Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 426 - 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 365 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Página 430 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Página 451 - 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 thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Página 461 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered ; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes.
Página 434 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers...
Página 435 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Página 434 - Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.
Página 451 - ... 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 432 - All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guarantees and prohibitions, in the Constitution, that controversies never arise concerning them. But no organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration.