Lincoln, His Life and Time: Being the Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States, Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages and Proclamations and Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and Death, Volume 1Thompson & Thomas, 1891 - 808 pages This work is a biography of Abraham Lincoln and focuses on his presidency and administration during the Civil War. |
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... interest the life and public acts of one whose work was at once so great and so successful . The principles which guided his conduct , and the policy by which he sought to carry them out- the temper and character which were the secret ...
... interest the life and public acts of one whose work was at once so great and so successful . The principles which guided his conduct , and the policy by which he sought to carry them out- the temper and character which were the secret ...
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... interest . I find myself wholly unable to form any conjecture of what fact or facts , real or supposed , you spoke . But my opinion of your veracity will not permit me , for a moment , to doubt that you , at least , believed what you ...
... interest . I find myself wholly unable to form any conjecture of what fact or facts , real or supposed , you spoke . But my opinion of your veracity will not permit me , for a moment , to doubt that you , at least , believed what you ...
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... interest , reads as follows : - MARCH 8 , 1837 . The following protest was presented to the House , which was read and ordered to be spread on the journals , to wit : " Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both ...
... interest , reads as follows : - MARCH 8 , 1837 . The following protest was presented to the House , which was read and ordered to be spread on the journals , to wit : " Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both ...
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... interest in him , lent him books to read , and , after the season for work was over , encour- aged him to remain with them until he should find some- thing " to turn his hand to . " They also hoped much from his influence over their son ...
... interest in him , lent him books to read , and , after the season for work was over , encour- aged him to remain with them until he should find some- thing " to turn his hand to . " They also hoped much from his influence over their son ...
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... interest to the country . The Mexicau War was in progress , and Congress had to deal with grave questions arising out of it , besides determining and providing the means by which it was to be carried on . The irrepressible Slavery ...
... interest to the country . The Mexicau War was in progress , and Congress had to deal with grave questions arising out of it , besides determining and providing the means by which it was to be carried on . The irrepressible Slavery ...
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Page 263 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free ; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Page 260 - ... 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 or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 262 - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in 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 54 - 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 push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 170 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 55 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 101 - All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy.
Page 262 - ... 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...
Page 171 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Page 362 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.