Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Including Inaugurals and ProclamationsA.L. Burt Company, 1906 - 417 pages |
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... , four years after Clay's Mis- souri Compromise Bill had transferred the preponder- ance of power to the South , by opening the territories to the extension of slavery and enforcing the Fugitive- Slave Law INTRODUCTION . xi.
... , four years after Clay's Mis- souri Compromise Bill had transferred the preponder- ance of power to the South , by opening the territories to the extension of slavery and enforcing the Fugitive- Slave Law INTRODUCTION . xi.
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... territory ; at another showing us how we can support the war by levying contributions on Mexico . At one time urging the national honor , the security of the future , the prevention of foreign inter- ference , and even the good of ...
... territory ; at another showing us how we can support the war by levying contributions on Mexico . At one time urging the national honor , the security of the future , the prevention of foreign inter- ference , and even the good of ...
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... territorial indemnity for the expenses of the war ; but he forgets to tell us how we are to get the excess after those expenses shall have surpassed the value of the whole of the Mexican territory . So again , he insists that the ...
... territorial indemnity for the expenses of the war ; but he forgets to tell us how we are to get the excess after those expenses shall have surpassed the value of the whole of the Mexican territory . So again , he insists that the ...
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... Territory , provision had been made even before the adoption of the Constitution that slavery should never go there . On the admission of States into the Union , carved from the territory we owned before the Con- stitution , no question ...
... Territory , provision had been made even before the adoption of the Constitution that slavery should never go there . On the admission of States into the Union , carved from the territory we owned before the Con- stitution , no question ...
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... Territories of Kansas and Nebraska , with the proviso that they should be free to regulate their domestic institutions ( including the vexed and menacing slavery question ) each in its own way , subject only to the Constitution of the ...
... Territories of Kansas and Nebraska , with the proviso that they should be free to regulate their domestic institutions ( including the vexed and menacing slavery question ) each in its own way , subject only to the Constitution of the ...
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Page 52 - 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. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 312 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 103 - 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 309 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare...
Page 319 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." 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 battlefield 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.
Page 409 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself ; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it.
Page 205 - 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...
Page 62 - 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. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 410 - Fondly do we, hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth...
Page 370 - I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by congress, or by decision of the supreme court...