...considering whether these states have ever been out of the Union, than with it. Finding themselves safely at home, it would be utterly immaterial whether...proper practical relations between these states and the Umon, and each forever after innocently indulge his own opinion whether in doing the acts he brought...

...considering whether these States have ever been out of the Union, than with it. Finding themselves safely at home, it would be utterly immaterial whether...to restoring the proper practical relations between th^se States and the Union, and each forever after innocently indulge his own opinion whether in doing...

...postoffice in the northwestern part of Harrison county. Reconstruction. President Lincoln's policy was: "Let us all join in doing the acts necessary to restoring the proper practical relations between those States and the Union, and each forever after innocently indulge his own opinion whether in doing...

...considering, whether these states have even been out of the Union, than with it. Finding themselves safely at home, it would be utterly immaterial whether...proper assistance, they never having been out of it. The amount of constituency, so to speak, on which the new Louisiana government rests, would be more...

...had ever been out of the Union ; he ironically suggested, almost parodying his own best style, that 'each forever after, innocently indulge his own opinion...proper assistance, they never having been out of it'. Politics, as we have seen, is indeed a matter of 'practical relations', not of deduction from higher...

...treat the South as a conquered territory without constitutional rights. The task, he said, was that of 'doing the acts necessary to restoring the proper...practical relations between these States and the Union'; he scorned 'deciding, or even considering' whether these States had ever been out of the Union ; he...

...considering whether these States have ever been out of the Union, than with it. Finding themselves safely at home, it would be utterly immaterial whether they had ever been abroad." Then, so deftly and easily that few of his hearers realized what political dynamite he was juggling,...

...veered away from disputations over the constitutional status of the ex-states: "Finding themselves safely at home, it would be utterly immaterial whether they had ever been abroad" (Lincoln VIII, 403). The national household that this domestic rhetoric invoked, however, had undergone...

...considering whether these States have ever been out of the Union, than with it. Finding themselves safely at home, it would be utterly immaterial whether...proper assistance, they never having been out of it. The amount of constituency, so to speak, on which the new Louisiana government rests, would be more...

...considering, whether these states have even been out of the Union, than with it. Finding themselves safely at home, it would be utterly immaterial whether...proper assistance, they never having been out of it. The amount of constituency, so to speak, on which the new Louisiana government rests, would be more...