Abraham Lincoln, a Universal Man |
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... appearance , had they chanced to meet , with scarce a glance and that glance one of curiosity , if not disdain . His schooling , training and accomplishments had all been in another world , an atmosphere of gentle breed- ing and courtly ...
... appearance , had they chanced to meet , with scarce a glance and that glance one of curiosity , if not disdain . His schooling , training and accomplishments had all been in another world , an atmosphere of gentle breed- ing and courtly ...
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... appeared upon the scene . Becoming aware of their purpose , Lincoln , his face swarthy with resolution and rage , interposed between them and their intended victim . Lincoln's determined look and demand that , " It must not be done ...
... appeared upon the scene . Becoming aware of their purpose , Lincoln , his face swarthy with resolution and rage , interposed between them and their intended victim . Lincoln's determined look and demand that , " It must not be done ...
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... appeared before the local Justice of the Peace . All this service was free . He was as indefatigable in gaining experi- ence as he was in showing his appreciation of the genuine friendship and support accorded him . Even when he moved ...
... appeared before the local Justice of the Peace . All this service was free . He was as indefatigable in gaining experi- ence as he was in showing his appreciation of the genuine friendship and support accorded him . Even when he moved ...
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... appeared to challenge their op- ponents with vigor , if not with courtesy and logic . Small wonder that Lincoln , whose love for public speaking had been fostered by practice upon every possible occasion since childhood , should have ...
... appeared to challenge their op- ponents with vigor , if not with courtesy and logic . Small wonder that Lincoln , whose love for public speaking had been fostered by practice upon every possible occasion since childhood , should have ...
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... appeared in the columns of that paper . In this debate he discovered the flaws in Douglas ' char- acter which led him to dodge , cover , and misrepresent facts , but with such subtlety , so much fire and impetuosity as easily to deceive ...
... appeared in the columns of that paper . In this debate he discovered the flaws in Douglas ' char- acter which led him to dodge , cover , and misrepresent facts , but with such subtlety , so much fire and impetuosity as easily to deceive ...
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Page 130 - Have we no tendency to the latter condition ? Let any one who doubts carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination — piece of machinery, so to speak— compounded of the Nebraska doctrine and the Dred Scott decision. Let him consider not only what work the machinery is adapted to do, and how well adapted; but also let him study the history of its construction, and trace, if he can, or rather fail, if he can, to trace the evidences of design and concert of action among its chief...
Page 129 - 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...
Page 170 - I can say in return, sir, that all the political sentiments I entertain have been drawn, so far as I have been able to draw them, from the sentiments which originated in and were given to the world from this hall. I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Page 58 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 210 - Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
Page 67 - 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 above resolutions is their reason for entering...
Page 132 - How can he refuse that trade in that "property" shall be "perfectly free," unless he does it as a protection to the home production? And as the home producers will probably not ask the protection, he will be wholly without a ground of opposition. Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser to-day than he was yesterday — that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change of which...
Page 193 - If the war continues long, as it must if the object be not sooner attained, the institution in your States will be extinguished by mere friction and abrasion — by the mere incidents of the war. It will be gone, and you will have nothing valuable in lieu of it.
Page 133 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to and conducted by its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through,...
Page 195 - If there be in it any statements or assumptions of fact which I may know to be erroneous, I do not now and here controvert them. If there be any inferences •which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I