Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public ServicesB. B. Russell, 1866 - 216 páginas |
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... seemed just on the brink of disruption and civil war , yet the dreaded collision had always been somehow averted , and the moment of fiercest excitement , of wildest alienation , had often been the im- * Gov. Andrew's Address . mediate ...
... seemed just on the brink of disruption and civil war , yet the dreaded collision had always been somehow averted , and the moment of fiercest excitement , of wildest alienation , had often been the im- * Gov. Andrew's Address . mediate ...
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... seemed unprepared for war in every Jefferson Davis and John B. Floyd had directed the War Department for eight years with an eye to South- ern supremacy . Most of our little army had been or- dered to Texas , where it was placed under ...
... seemed unprepared for war in every Jefferson Davis and John B. Floyd had directed the War Department for eight years with an eye to South- ern supremacy . Most of our little army had been or- dered to Texas , where it was placed under ...
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... seemed to rise into that peculiar sphere which we assign to those who by origi nal constitution are natural leaders among men . Not by nature a leader , neither was he by nature a follower ; and by force of his rare union and balance of ...
... seemed to rise into that peculiar sphere which we assign to those who by origi nal constitution are natural leaders among men . Not by nature a leader , neither was he by nature a follower ; and by force of his rare union and balance of ...
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... seemed to suffer . But , when the blow was struck , there was nothing but gratitude ; and all con- fessed the singleness with which he had sought the public good . There was also a conviction , that , though slow to reach his conclusion ...
... seemed to suffer . But , when the blow was struck , there was nothing but gratitude ; and all con- fessed the singleness with which he had sought the public good . There was also a conviction , that , though slow to reach his conclusion ...
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... seemed to rise before them out of the quiet sea , a vast mausoleum from the hand of God wherein to lay the dead . I was not astonished , therefore , when Mr. Lincoln alluded to it in this way , and gave , in a few deep - toned words , a ...
... seemed to rise before them out of the quiet sea , a vast mausoleum from the hand of God wherein to lay the dead . I was not astonished , therefore , when Mr. Lincoln alluded to it in this way , and gave , in a few deep - toned words , a ...
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Página 205 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28 For the kingdom is the LORD'S : and he is the governor among the nations.
Página 57 - Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren : and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.
Página 120 - 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 192 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Página 128 - The laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals...
Página 141 - 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 121 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the National authority.
Página 138 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree 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 120 - 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 190 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed 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...