A Life of Lincoln for BoysT. Y. Crowell & Company, 1907 - 328 pages |
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... United States when Texas did , in the Mexican war , 1845-1848 . In early times , and even after the Revolu- tionary war , it had been thought that we should never want the country west of the Mississippi , and that this would always be ...
... United States when Texas did , in the Mexican war , 1845-1848 . In early times , and even after the Revolu- tionary war , it had been thought that we should never want the country west of the Mississippi , and that this would always be ...
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... united household . Brothers and sisters and cousins all acknowl- edged that their big brother Abraham was first of them all in goodness and cleverness . Mrs. Lincoln not long before her death said to his friend , Mr. Herndon : " I can ...
... united household . Brothers and sisters and cousins all acknowl- edged that their big brother Abraham was first of them all in goodness and cleverness . Mrs. Lincoln not long before her death said to his friend , Mr. Herndon : " I can ...
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... United States " was perhaps the first direct preparation which he had for the work that , long afterward , lay before him . For then he began to learn somewhat of the country which after- ward he was to be the leader in saving from ...
... United States " was perhaps the first direct preparation which he had for the work that , long afterward , lay before him . For then he began to learn somewhat of the country which after- ward he was to be the leader in saving from ...
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... United States troops there sent a command to Black Hawk to return . But Black Hawk refused , and the Governor called for volunteers . Abraham Lincoln was one of the first to respond . In those days the volunteer companies chose their ...
... United States troops there sent a command to Black Hawk to return . But Black Hawk refused , and the Governor called for volunteers . Abraham Lincoln was one of the first to respond . In those days the volunteer companies chose their ...
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... United States , and Mr. Breckinridge would be only too much honored by being spoken to by him . When that time arrived , Lincoln showed the noble spirit he was of , for again he congratulated the law- yer upon that fine speech of so ...
... United States , and Mr. Breckinridge would be only too much honored by being spoken to by him . When that time arrived , Lincoln showed the noble spirit he was of , for again he congratulated the law- yer upon that fine speech of so ...
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Page 282 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 164 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that 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 it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 31 - I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through the night, Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel pond, Mine the walnut slopes beyond, Mine, on bending orchard trees, Apples of Hesperides!
Page 110 - They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy; but that the promulgation of Abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.
Page 30 - Of the wild-flower's time and place, Flight of fowl and habitude Of the tenants of the wood ; How the tortoise bears his shell, How the woodchuck digs his cell, And the ground mole sinks his well ; How the robin feeds her young, How the oriole's nest is hung...
Page 110 - They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States. "They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power, under the Constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power ought not to be exercised, unless at the request of the people of the District. "The difference between these opinions and those contained in the said resolutions is their reason for entering...
Page 313 - The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great North-west for it. Nor yet wholly to them. Three hundred miles up they met New England, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey, hewing their way right and left. The sunny South, too, in more colors than one, also lent a hand.
Page 164 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Page 268 - At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks, thanks to all.
Page 285 - Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.