Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public ServicesB.B. Russell, 1865 - 216 pages |
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... civil , and soon after in a military capacity . " The writer of the " Lincoln Memorial " thinks that the fact of Lincoln's captaincy was significant , and almost symbolical . " This early choice , " he says , " of one who was at most a ...
... civil , and soon after in a military capacity . " The writer of the " Lincoln Memorial " thinks that the fact of Lincoln's captaincy was significant , and almost symbolical . " This early choice , " he says , " of one who was at most a ...
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... civil war . Never nation needed a leader more . God saw our necessity . It was his glorious opportunity . He saw our need of a pillar of fire in the night of war fast settling down upon us ; and , lo ! Abraham Lincoln " stood before us ...
... civil war . Never nation needed a leader more . God saw our necessity . It was his glorious opportunity . He saw our need of a pillar of fire in the night of war fast settling down upon us ; and , lo ! Abraham Lincoln " stood before us ...
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... civil war , how to accommodate opinion to the al- tered relations of States , interests , and sections of the people , he marched , side by side with the advancing hosts of the best and most discerning , in the direction where Divine ...
... civil war , how to accommodate opinion to the al- tered relations of States , interests , and sections of the people , he marched , side by side with the advancing hosts of the best and most discerning , in the direction where Divine ...
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... civil war . In such cases , there is always a main question ; but , in this case , that question is a perplexing compound , - union and slavery . It be- comes a question not of two sides merely , but of at least four sides , even among ...
... civil war . In such cases , there is always a main question ; but , in this case , that question is a perplexing compound , - union and slavery . It be- comes a question not of two sides merely , but of at least four sides , even among ...
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... civil war which was inaugurated in 1861 to its triumphal close in 1865 . But God was alike with the nation which was in the caldron , and the man who , in one sense , bore the bur- den of that nation's woes . As Bancroft , our great ...
... civil war which was inaugurated in 1861 to its triumphal close in 1865 . But God was alike with the nation which was in the caldron , and the man who , in one sense , bore the bur- den of that nation's woes . As Bancroft , our great ...
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Abraham Lincoln: Is Life and Public Services (Classic Reprint) Phebe A. Hanaford No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 144 - ... rebellion against the United 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...
Page 123 - In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the National authority. 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...
Page 149 - 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.
Page 59 - 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.
Page 144 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans ; Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...
Page 193 - 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.
Page 143 - 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...
Page 194 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of 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?
Page 183 - tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death ; From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : — Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Page 125 - All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guarantees and prohibitions in the Constitution, that controversies never arise concerning them. But no organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. No foresight can anticipate, nor any document of reasonable length contain, express provisions for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor...