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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... never wrote out his speeches before- hand . Speaking of his feelings at the end of his college life , he sadly said : " My father's death had embittered the last days of the year 1836 , and left me without a counselor . I knew something ...
... never wrote out his speeches before- hand . Speaking of his feelings at the end of his college life , he sadly said : " My father's death had embittered the last days of the year 1836 , and left me without a counselor . I knew something ...
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... never would hold any of his slaves under his authority , never would accept a cent of their wages , and tendered each and all of them a deed of absolute manumission whenever the law would allow . Tell me , was that man sincere in his ...
... never would hold any of his slaves under his authority , never would accept a cent of their wages , and tendered each and all of them a deed of absolute manumission whenever the law would allow . Tell me , was that man sincere in his ...
Page xix
... never appearing in the trial of a cause without the most elaborate and exhaustive preparation , and soon became known to his professional brethren as a valuable ally and a formidable foe . His natural aptitude for pub- lic affairs made ...
... never appearing in the trial of a cause without the most elaborate and exhaustive preparation , and soon became known to his professional brethren as a valuable ally and a formidable foe . His natural aptitude for pub- lic affairs made ...
Page xxi
... never doubted his recovery . Later in the day very unfavor- able symptoms appeared , and all then realized his danger . In the evening his wife spoke to him of a visit , for one day , which he had projected , to his old friend Mrs ...
... never doubted his recovery . Later in the day very unfavor- able symptoms appeared , and all then realized his danger . In the evening his wife spoke to him of a visit , for one day , which he had projected , to his old friend Mrs ...
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... never commonplaced from books . His thesaurus was his head . I have but little personal knowledge of Mr. Davis as a lawyer . It was never my good fortune to be associated with him in the trial of a cause , nor have I ever been present ...
... never commonplaced from books . His thesaurus was his head . I have but little personal knowledge of Mr. Davis as a lawyer . It was never my good fortune to be associated with him in the trial of a cause , nor have I ever been present ...
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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.