Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 3Century Company, 1890 - 470 pages Lincoln's law partner wrote a history of Lincoln containing many little-known facts some of which have been disproved by later scholars. |
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... confident that if forced to answer your letter then he would have taken such ground as would have prevented his ever approach- ing it hereafter , a possibility not at all improbable , and which ought to be kept open . I considered ...
... confident that if forced to answer your letter then he would have taken such ground as would have prevented his ever approach- ing it hereafter , a possibility not at all improbable , and which ought to be kept open . I considered ...
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... confidence which your letter implied , to take their counsel . We agreed perfectly , and the result was the telegraphic dis- patch of last night . The withdrawal of the letter was a great relief to the President , who is most earnestly ...
... confidence which your letter implied , to take their counsel . We agreed perfectly , and the result was the telegraphic dis- patch of last night . The withdrawal of the letter was a great relief to the President , who is most earnestly ...
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... confidence , to hold communications with you on my behalf , for the purpose of changing or modi- fying the contemplated action of the State in the manner I have already suggested . Commending Mr. Cushing to your kind attention , for his ...
... confidence , to hold communications with you on my behalf , for the purpose of changing or modi- fying the contemplated action of the State in the manner I have already suggested . Commending Mr. Cushing to your kind attention , for his ...
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... confidence they had in their complete domination over the will of Mr. Buchanan . Unprepared for war , they abruptly closed their only avenue to successful intrigue ; feeling assured that all resist- ance from the President would break ...
... confidence they had in their complete domination over the will of Mr. Buchanan . Unprepared for war , they abruptly closed their only avenue to successful intrigue ; feeling assured that all resist- ance from the President would break ...
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... confidence of the people . I think that is a mistake . No adminis- tration has ever suffered the loss of public confidence and support as this has done . Only the other day it was announced that a million of dollars had been stolen from ...
... confidence of the people . I think that is a mistake . No adminis- tration has ever suffered the loss of public confidence and support as this has done . Only the other day it was announced that a million of dollars had been stolen from ...
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Page 341 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 342 - 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 340 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.
Page 331 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was " to form a more perfect Union.
Page 344 - 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 chords 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.
Page 334 - 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; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion -no using of force against, or among the people anywhere.
Page 331 - ... Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever— it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
Page 331 - I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these states is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 332 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 332 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.