History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclamations, and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of His LifeJ. C. Derby & N. C. Miller, 1864 - 496 pages |
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... proposed to Lincoln to take up survey- ing , and himself aided in his studies . He had plenty of employment as a surveyor , and won a good reputa- tion in this new line of business . In 1834 he was sent to the Legislature , and 18 LIFE ...
... proposed to Lincoln to take up survey- ing , and himself aided in his studies . He had plenty of employment as a surveyor , and won a good reputa- tion in this new line of business . In 1834 he was sent to the Legislature , and 18 LIFE ...
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... proposed to him . On the right of petition Mr. Lincoln , of course , held the right side , voting repeatedly against laying on the table without consideration petitions in favor of the abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia ...
... proposed to him . On the right of petition Mr. Lincoln , of course , held the right side , voting repeatedly against laying on the table without consideration petitions in favor of the abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia ...
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... proposed were such as to give him the decided advantage of having four opening and closing speeches to Mr. Lincoln's three ; and that Mr. Lincoln , while noticing the inequality , did not hesi- tate to accept them . The seven joint ...
... proposed were such as to give him the decided advantage of having four opening and closing speeches to Mr. Lincoln's three ; and that Mr. Lincoln , while noticing the inequality , did not hesi- tate to accept them . The seven joint ...
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... proposed to him , and in his turn put four questions to Douglas , to which he got but evasive replies . He also pressed home upon his opponent a charge of quoting resolutions as being adopted at a Republican State Convention , which ...
... proposed to him , and in his turn put four questions to Douglas , to which he got but evasive replies . He also pressed home upon his opponent a charge of quoting resolutions as being adopted at a Republican State Convention , which ...
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... proposed to do , and what they did not propose to do . He said that they looked upon Slavery as a moral , a social , and a political wrong , " and they proposed a course of conduct which should treat it as a wrong ; " did not propose to ...
... proposed to do , and what they did not propose to do . He said that they looked upon Slavery as a moral , a social , and a political wrong , " and they proposed a course of conduct which should treat it as a wrong ; " did not propose to ...
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Page 463 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 210 - seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with...
Page 113 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 128 - WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and 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 - I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oftexpressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.
Page 118 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 215 - 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 218 - ... 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 78 - Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support, and I hope you, my friends, will all pray that I may receive that Divine assistance, without which I cannot succeed, but with which, success is certain. Again I bid you all an affectionate farewell.
Page 118 - Constitution and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great...