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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... whole nation years after- ward . Yet so it proved to be . A writer , describing one of the incidents in the earlier political career of the late President , says : - During the sitting of the Republican State Convention , at Decatur , a ...
... whole nation years after- ward . Yet so it proved to be . A writer , describing one of the incidents in the earlier political career of the late President , says : - During the sitting of the Republican State Convention , at Decatur , a ...
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... whole time to the practice of his profes- sion . As already stated , he had been admitted to the bar in 1836 ; and on April 15 , 1837 , he settled permanently in Springfield , the seat of Sangamon County , which was destined to be his ...
... whole time to the practice of his profes- sion . As already stated , he had been admitted to the bar in 1836 ; and on April 15 , 1837 , he settled permanently in Springfield , the seat of Sangamon County , which was destined to be his ...
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... whole tale was a fabrication . An almost instantaneous change seemed to have been wrought in the minds of his auditors , and the verdict of " not guilty " was at the end of every tongue . But the advocate was not content with this ...
... whole tale was a fabrication . An almost instantaneous change seemed to have been wrought in the minds of his auditors , and the verdict of " not guilty " was at the end of every tongue . But the advocate was not content with this ...
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... whole foundation of it , doubtless , was the fact which Mr. Lin- coln states , that , whenever the Democrats tried to get him to vote that the war had been righteously begun , " he would not do it . He showed , in fact , on this point ...
... whole foundation of it , doubtless , was the fact which Mr. Lin- coln states , that , whenever the Democrats tried to get him to vote that the war had been righteously begun , " he would not do it . He showed , in fact , on this point ...
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... whole country put on that career of prosperity which shall correspond with its extent of territory , its natural resources , and the intelligence and enterprise of its people . The nomination of General Taylor as the Whig candi- date ...
... whole country put on that career of prosperity which shall correspond with its extent of territory , its natural resources , and the intelligence and enterprise of its people . The nomination of General Taylor as the Whig candi- date ...
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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.