Speeches and Addresses Delivered in the Congress of the United States: And on Several Public Occasions [1856-1865]Harper & Brothers, 1867 - 596 pages |
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... carrying in- expressible sorrow to every household and every heart . The course of legislation was stopped in mid career to give expression to the grief of Congress , and by resolution , approved January 6 , 1800 , the 22d of February ...
... carrying in- expressible sorrow to every household and every heart . The course of legislation was stopped in mid career to give expression to the grief of Congress , and by resolution , approved January 6 , 1800 , the 22d of February ...
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... carry war where it is easy to advance , where food for the sword and torch await our ar- mies in the densely populated cities . " In March , the Thirty - sixth Congress , after vainly passing conciliatory resolutions by the score- among ...
... carry war where it is easy to advance , where food for the sword and torch await our ar- mies in the densely populated cities . " In March , the Thirty - sixth Congress , after vainly passing conciliatory resolutions by the score- among ...
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... carried on , unremittingly from that time until the elec- tion on the 13th of June , the most brilliant campaign against open traitors , doubters , and dodgers , that unrivaled eloquence , courage , and activity could achieve . Every ...
... carried on , unremittingly from that time until the elec- tion on the 13th of June , the most brilliant campaign against open traitors , doubters , and dodgers , that unrivaled eloquence , courage , and activity could achieve . Every ...
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... carried by a majority of the popular vote . He allowed himself no reprieve from labor until all this had been accom- plished . And when the rest of us , worn out by incessant toil , gladly sought rest , he went before the Court of ...
... carried by a majority of the popular vote . He allowed himself no reprieve from labor until all this had been accom- plished . And when the rest of us , worn out by incessant toil , gladly sought rest , he went before the Court of ...
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... carry the whole South , and trust - not to party discipline , for that has died away , but to the chance of the ... carrying him to the presidential chair ; and 42 A PLEA FOR THE COUNTRY.
... carry the whole South , and trust - not to party discipline , for that has died away , but to the chance of the ... carrying him to the presidential chair ; and 42 A PLEA FOR THE COUNTRY.
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Page 420 - State before it can determine whether it is republican or not; and when the senators and representatives of a State are admitted into the councils of the Union, the authority of the government under which they are appointed, as well as its republican character, is recognized by the proper constitutional authority, and its decision is binding on every other department of the government, and could not be questioned in a judicial tribunal.
Page 418 - Therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do proclaim, declare, and make known to all persons who have, directly or by implication, participated in the existing rebellion, except as hereinafter...
Page 133 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 421 - And for the same reason it may be proper to further say that whether members sent to Congress from any State shall be admitted to seats constitutionally rests exclusively with the respective Houses, and not to any extent with the Executive.
Page 283 - If the judicial power extends so far, the guarantee contained in the Constitution of the United States is a guarantee of anarchy, and not of order. Yet if this right does not reside in the courts when the conflict is raging, if the judicial power is at that time bound to follow the decision of the political, it must be equally bound when the contest is over. It cannot, when peace is restored, punish as offences and crimes the acts which it before recognized, and was bound to recognize, as lawful...
Page xxiv - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 282 - And if the government of Rhode Island deemed the armed opposition so formidable and so ramified throughout the State as to require the use of its military force and the declaration of martial law, we see no ground upon which this court can question its authority. "It was a state of war; and the established government resorted to the. rights and usages of war to maintain itself, and to overcome the unlawful opposition.
Page 169 - Sir, while you reproach, justly too, our British ancestors for the introduction of this institution upon the continent of America, I am for one unwilling that the posterity of the present inhabitants of California and New Mexico shall reproach us for doing just what we reproach Great Britain for doing to us.
Page 259 - ... then known, that on this day the Union of the United States of America stands firm, that their Constitution still exists unimpaired, and with all its original usefulness and glory ; growing every day stronger and stronger in the affections of the great body of the American people, and attracting more and more the admiration of the world.
Page xxv - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.