Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, Volume 2Century Company, 1894 |
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... believe that provisions for more than one or two months could be furnished at a time . There is no doubt whatever in my mind that when Major Anderson first took possession of Fort Sumter he could have been easily supplied with men and ...
... believe that provisions for more than one or two months could be furnished at a time . There is no doubt whatever in my mind that when Major Anderson first took possession of Fort Sumter he could have been easily supplied with men and ...
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... believe the attempt to carry it into effect would initiate a bloody and protracted conflict . Should he succeed in re- lieving Fort Sumter , which is doubted by many of our most experienced soldiers and seamen , would that enable us to ...
... believe the attempt to carry it into effect would initiate a bloody and protracted conflict . Should he succeed in re- lieving Fort Sumter , which is doubted by many of our most experienced soldiers and seamen , would that enable us to ...
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... believe that public sentiment would fully justify the action of the government when the reasons which prompt it shall be explained and understood . I therefore respectfully answer the inquiry of the President by saying that , in my ...
... believe that public sentiment would fully justify the action of the government when the reasons which prompt it shall be explained and understood . I therefore respectfully answer the inquiry of the President by saying that , in my ...
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... believe Fort Sumter may be provisioned and relieved by Captain Fox with little risk ; and General Scott's opinion , that with its war complement there is no force in South Carolina which can take it , renders it almost certain that it ...
... believe Fort Sumter may be provisioned and relieved by Captain Fox with little risk ; and General Scott's opinion , that with its war complement there is no force in South Carolina which can take it , renders it almost certain that it ...
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... believe I have told you fully what it was , and is , that pressed me to appoint him : the urgent solicitation of an old friend who has served me all my life , and who has never before received or asked anything in return . His ( Mr ...
... believe I have told you fully what it was , and is , that pressed me to appoint him : the urgent solicitation of an old friend who has served me all my life , and who has never before received or asked anything in return . His ( Mr ...
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Page 587 - ... the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his...
Page 587 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives . to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 472 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 211 - ... 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 56 - Must a Government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence...
Page 5 - Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.
Page 221 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
Page 240 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Page 3 - 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.
Page 269 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons. And yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which, I am not quite satisfied with you.