The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and DeathDerby and Miller, 1865 - 808 páginas Includes added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by F.B. Carpenter. |
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... Convention which were never so adopted , and again called Douglas's attention to the conspiracy to nationalize slavery , and showed that his pretended desire to leave the people of a Territory free to establish slavery or exclude it ...
... Convention which were never so adopted , and again called Douglas's attention to the conspiracy to nationalize slavery , and showed that his pretended desire to leave the people of a Territory free to establish slavery or exclude it ...
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... Convention , showed them how by so doing they would the most surely protect their cherished institution of slavery . In the course of his argument he expressed this shrewd opinion , which may now be classed as a prophecy : It is but my ...
... Convention , showed them how by so doing they would the most surely protect their cherished institution of slavery . In the course of his argument he expressed this shrewd opinion , which may now be classed as a prophecy : It is but my ...
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... Convention was in session framing it , and while the Northwestern Territory still was the only territory owned by the United States , the same question of prohibiting slavery in the territory again came before the Congress of the ...
... Convention was in session framing it , and while the Northwestern Territory still was the only territory owned by the United States , the same question of prohibiting slavery in the territory again came before the Congress of the ...
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... Convention of 1860 met on the 16th of May , at Chicago , in an immense building which the people of that city had put up for the purpose , called the Wigwam . There were four hundred and sixty - five delegates . The city was filled with ...
... Convention of 1860 met on the 16th of May , at Chicago , in an immense building which the people of that city had put up for the purpose , called the Wigwam . There were four hundred and sixty - five delegates . The city was filled with ...
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... Convention at once . Mr. Carter , of Ohio , rose and announced a change in the vote of the Ohio delegation of four votes in favor of Mr. Lincoln , and the Convention at once burst into a state of the wildest excitement . The cheers of ...
... Convention at once . Mr. Carter , of Ohio , rose and announced a change in the vote of the Ohio delegation of four votes in favor of Mr. Lincoln , and the Convention at once burst into a state of the wildest excitement . The cheers of ...
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Página 163 - 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, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes...
Página 261 - ... 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 164 - I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these states is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Página 200 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not waged on their part in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired ;...
Página 670 - Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed very fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress...
Página 360 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Página 352 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Página 730 - In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Página 730 - tis the draught of a breath — From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : — Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Página 260 - 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...