The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: And the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, on the Evening of the 14th of April, 1865. Expressions of Condolence and Sympathy Inspired by These EventsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1866 - 717 pages |
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... lives of the Secretary of State and his son has also filled me with horror . I thank Heaven the crime was not accom- plished ; and I sincerely desire the speedy and perfect recovery of the intended victims . I will also hasten to inform ...
... lives of the Secretary of State and his son has also filled me with horror . I thank Heaven the crime was not accom- plished ; and I sincerely desire the speedy and perfect recovery of the intended victims . I will also hasten to inform ...
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... live beneath the protection of republican institutions , and who now lament the loss of Lincoln , the venerated apostle of American democracy . I have the honor to transcribe the foregoing to your excellency , in compliance with the ...
... live beneath the protection of republican institutions , and who now lament the loss of Lincoln , the venerated apostle of American democracy . I have the honor to transcribe the foregoing to your excellency , in compliance with the ...
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... live in the heart of humanity so long as the current of the Potomac flows or the Andes endure . This reflection may , perhaps , in some degree mitigate your own grief , and that of your fellow - coun- trymen . With sentiments of the ...
... live in the heart of humanity so long as the current of the Potomac flows or the Andes endure . This reflection may , perhaps , in some degree mitigate your own grief , and that of your fellow - coun- trymen . With sentiments of the ...
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... lives . My government would wish , in honor of humanity , that this savage act should appear isolated , and solely chargeable to the wretched assassin who attacked the life of the unfortunate President . And it must be so . Whatever ...
... lives . My government would wish , in honor of humanity , that this savage act should appear isolated , and solely chargeable to the wretched assassin who attacked the life of the unfortunate President . And it must be so . Whatever ...
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... lives of the Secretary of State and the Assistant Secretary . I have already , in my despatch No. 25 , reported the cordial expression of sympathy which his highness the Pacha of Egypt hastened to make me , in an official interview ...
... lives of the Secretary of State and the Assistant Secretary . I have already , in my despatch No. 25 , reported the cordial expression of sympathy which his highness the Pacha of Egypt hastened to make me , in an official interview ...
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Page 84 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
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Page 83 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 406 - ... never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine 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 83 - MY FRIENDS : No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again.
Page 129 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully.
Page 84 - It was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence...
Page 406 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said that " the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 399 - THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.