The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volumen13;Volumen35Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1888 |
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... Lincoln had received 180 votes ; Breck- inridge , 72 ; Bell , 39 ; Douglas , 12. Vice - Pres- ident Breckinridge thereupon announced that " Abraham Lincoln , of Illinois , having received a majority of the whole number of electoral ...
... Lincoln had received 180 votes ; Breck- inridge , 72 ; Bell , 39 ; Douglas , 12. Vice - Pres- ident Breckinridge thereupon announced that " Abraham Lincoln , of Illinois , having received a majority of the whole number of electoral ...
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... Lincoln alluded to this amendment in his inaugural address , reciting its substance and giving it his unreserved approval . " I under- stand , " he said , " a proposed amendment to the Constitution - which amendment , how- ever , I have ...
... Lincoln alluded to this amendment in his inaugural address , reciting its substance and giving it his unreserved approval . " I under- stand , " he said , " a proposed amendment to the Constitution - which amendment , how- ever , I have ...
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... Lincoln was a terse greet- ing from Governor Chase , dated November 7th , that admirably expressed the prevalent feeling . his portrait , ambitious politicians to note new party currents , and veteran statesmen to urge the adoption of ...
... Lincoln was a terse greet- ing from Governor Chase , dated November 7th , that admirably expressed the prevalent feeling . his portrait , ambitious politicians to note new party currents , and veteran statesmen to urge the adoption of ...
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... Lincoln nor any one save the actors themselves had then any means of knowing . But in addition to other current sources of information the con- fidential letters of Captain Abner Doubleday , second in command at Fort Moultrie , written ...
... Lincoln nor any one save the actors themselves had then any means of knowing . But in addition to other current sources of information the con- fidential letters of Captain Abner Doubleday , second in command at Fort Moultrie , written ...
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... Lincoln informed by letter of public events occurring there , so far as they were permitted to come to the knowledge ... Lincoln to Scott , Jan. 11th , 1861. Unpublished MS . + Lincoln to Wool , Jan. 14th , 1861. Unpublished MS ...
... Lincoln informed by letter of public events occurring there , so far as they were permitted to come to the knowledge ... Lincoln to Scott , Jan. 11th , 1861. Unpublished MS . + Lincoln to Wool , Jan. 14th , 1861. Unpublished MS ...
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Página 280 - 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 284 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Página 285 - I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.' I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 283 - 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, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 284 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.
Página 281 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Página 282 - 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 284 - 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 284 - 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 281 - The Union is much older than the Constitution/ It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.