Abraham Lincoln's SpeechesDodd, Mead, 1908 - 371 pages |
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... question of the time , upon which depended the perpetuity of the Union . Slavery had previously been patient under restriction , it had consented to the several compromises . Now it had sud- denly become aggressive , and not only ...
... question of the time , upon which depended the perpetuity of the Union . Slavery had previously been patient under restriction , it had consented to the several compromises . Now it had sud- denly become aggressive , and not only ...
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... which danger may be expected . The question recurs , how shall we fortify against it ? The answer is simple . Let every American , every lover of liberty , every well - wisher to his posterity , swear by the 20 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... which danger may be expected . The question recurs , how shall we fortify against it ? The answer is simple . Let every American , every lover of liberty , every well - wisher to his posterity , swear by the 20 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... questions , including the Compromise of 1820 , in which Mr. Clay took a leading part , and its remaining pages are occupied by an ac- count of Mr. Clay's labours , in connection with the American Colonisation Society , in attempting to ...
... questions , including the Compromise of 1820 , in which Mr. Clay took a leading part , and its remaining pages are occupied by an ac- count of Mr. Clay's labours , in connection with the American Colonisation Society , in attempting to ...
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... question for lovers of the Union , whether the final destruction of the Missouri Com- promise , and with it the spirit of all compromise , will or will not embolden and embitter each of these , and fatally increase the number of both ...
... question for lovers of the Union , whether the final destruction of the Missouri Com- promise , and with it the spirit of all compromise , will or will not embolden and embitter each of these , and fatally increase the number of both ...
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... question when it first becomes a practical one . In your assumption that there may be a fair decision of the slavery question in Kansas , I plainly see that you and I would differ about the Nebraska law . I look upon that enactment ...
... question when it first becomes a practical one . In your assumption that there may be a fair decision of the slavery question in Kansas , I plainly see that you and I would differ about the Nebraska law . I look upon that enactment ...
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Page 95 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. 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...
Page 297 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 296 - ... 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 297 - 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 295 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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 297 - ... the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 74 - 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 296 - 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 95 - In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
Page 248 - I am loath to close. 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 battle-field 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.