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 էջ |
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... ment of Fort Sumter . - Passage of Troops through Baltimore . - Interview with the Mayor of Baltimore . - The Blockade of Rebel Ports . - The Pres- ident and the Virginia Commissioners . - Instruction to our Ministers abroad ...
... ment of Fort Sumter . - Passage of Troops through Baltimore . - Interview with the Mayor of Baltimore . - The Blockade of Rebel Ports . - The Pres- ident and the Virginia Commissioners . - Instruction to our Ministers abroad ...
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... ment . Immediately after their marriage the couple re- moved to Hardin County , Kentucky , and there , on Feb- ruary 12th , 1809 , as has already been stated , Abraham Lincoln was born . His early life was spent in poverty and toil ...
... ment . Immediately after their marriage the couple re- moved to Hardin County , Kentucky , and there , on Feb- ruary 12th , 1809 , as has already been stated , Abraham Lincoln was born . His early life was spent in poverty and toil ...
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... ment as entirely unnecessary , encouraged his son to per- severe , until he was able to put his thoughts upon paper in a style which , although rude , caused him to be regarded as quite a prodigy among the illiterate neighbors . One of ...
... ment as entirely unnecessary , encouraged his son to per- severe , until he was able to put his thoughts upon paper in a style which , although rude , caused him to be regarded as quite a prodigy among the illiterate neighbors . One of ...
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... ment . No one would have been more surprised than Mr. Lin- coln himself , could the fact have been revealed to him , when uttering these words , that through him as an hum- ble instrument in the hands of Providence , and in the brief ...
... ment . No one would have been more surprised than Mr. Lin- coln himself , could the fact have been revealed to him , when uttering these words , that through him as an hum- ble instrument in the hands of Providence , and in the brief ...
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... ment , expressly declaring the right of the people , voted down ? Plainly enough now : the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision . Why was the court decision held up ? Why even a Senator's individual ...
... ment , expressly declaring the right of the people , voted down ? Plainly enough now : the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision . Why was the court decision held up ? Why even a Senator's individual ...
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The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State ... Henry Jarvis Raymond Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1865 |
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN action Administration adopted aforesaid amendment Andrew Johnson April arms army arrest attack authority believe bill called cause citizens City Point command Congress Constitution Convention Corps declared Department dispatch Douglas duty election emancipation Emancipation Proclamation enemy EXECUTIVE MANSION favor Federal force Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe friends give Government Governor Grant habeas corpus Halleck hand honor HORACE GREELEY House hundred issued John Wilkes Booth July 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 Territories thing thousand tion troops Union United Virginia vote Washington whole York
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Էջ 258 - ... 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 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...
Էջ 118 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Էջ 724 - 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...
Էջ 643 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Էջ 260 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this...
Էջ 253 - 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.
Էջ 165 - 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...
Էջ 642 - On the occasion corresponding to this four" years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it.
Էջ 350 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before?
Էջ 54 - 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...