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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... friends of the measure ; and down they voted the amendment . While the Nebraska bill was passing through Congress , a law - case , in- volving the question of a negro's freedom , by reason of his owner having voluntarily taken him first ...
... friends of the measure ; and down they voted the amendment . While the Nebraska bill was passing through Congress , a law - case , in- volving the question of a negro's freedom , by reason of his owner having voluntarily taken him first ...
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... friends , and yet whisper us softly , that Senator Douglas is the aptest instrument there is with which to effect that object . They wish us to infer all , from the fact that he now has a little quarrel with the present head of the ...
... friends , and yet whisper us softly , that Senator Douglas is the aptest instrument there is with which to effect that object . They wish us to infer all , from the fact that he now has a little quarrel with the present head of the ...
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... friends regarding it , and none of them , even those with whom he was the most intimate , knew of the positions which he intended to take , until they heard them enunciated from the platform in Springfield , on that memorable June 17 ...
... friends regarding it , and none of them , even those with whom he was the most intimate , knew of the positions which he intended to take , until they heard them enunciated from the platform in Springfield , on that memorable June 17 ...
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... friends and foes , to rejoice over every keen thrust at the adversary , to be cast down by each failure to parry the thrust so aimed . It is impossible to present here any thing more than the barest sketch of these great efforts of Mr ...
... friends and foes , to rejoice over every keen thrust at the adversary , to be cast down by each failure to parry the thrust so aimed . It is impossible to present here any thing more than the barest sketch of these great efforts of Mr ...
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... friends were trying to change the position of the country on the slavery question from what it was when the Constitution was adopted , and that the disturbance of the country had arisen from this pernicious effort . He then cited from ...
... friends were trying to change the position of the country on the slavery question from what it was when the Constitution was adopted , and that the disturbance of the country had arisen from this pernicious effort . He then cited from ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN action Administration adopted aforesaid amendment Andrew Johnson April army arrest authority believe bill called cause citizens City Point command Congress Constitution Convention Corps declared Department dispatch Douglas duty election emancipation enemy EXECUTIVE MANSION favor Federal force Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe friends give Government Governor Grant Greeley habeas corpus Halleck honor HORACE GREELEY House hundred issued John Wilkes Booth July Kentucky labor letter liberty loyal Major-General March McClellan ment military Missouri navy North Carolina o'clock officers party passed peace persons political position Potomac present President Lincoln President's proclamation purpose question re-enforcements rebel rebellion received reply Republican resolution Richmond River Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent sentiment Seward slavery slaves soldiers South speech territory thing thousand tion troops Union United Virginia vote WAR DEPARTMENT Washington whole York
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Página 258 - 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 260 - ... 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 162 - 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 50 - 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 258 - 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...
Página 258 - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Página 358 - 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 251 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
Página 229 - Resolved that the United States ought to co-operate with any state which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such state pecuniary aid, to be used by such state in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences public and private, produced by such change of system.
Página 241 - ... and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them and coming under the control of the Government of the United States...