Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and presidential addresses, 1859-1865Current literature publishing Company, 1907 |
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... Union , New York . February 27 , 1860 Slavery the Enemy of the Free Workingmen . Abstract of Speech at Hartford , Connecticut . March 5 , 1860 · I 2 43 57 Slavery the Snake in the Union Bed . Speech at New Haven , Connecticut . March 5 ...
... Union , New York . February 27 , 1860 Slavery the Enemy of the Free Workingmen . Abstract of Speech at Hartford , Connecticut . March 5 , 1860 · I 2 43 57 Slavery the Snake in the Union Bed . Speech at New Haven , Connecticut . March 5 ...
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... Union : It Rests with the People . Remarks at Indianapolis , Indiana . February 11 , 1861 The Union : Is It a Marriage Bond , or a Free- Love Arrangement ? Remarks to the Indiana Legislature , at Indianapolis . February 12 , 1861 Good ...
... Union : It Rests with the People . Remarks at Indianapolis , Indiana . February 11 , 1861 The Union : Is It a Marriage Bond , or a Free- Love Arrangement ? Remarks to the Indiana Legislature , at Indianapolis . February 12 , 1861 Good ...
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... Union Meeting in Washington . August 6 , 1862 Address to a Deputation of Colored Men on Colonization . August 14 , 1862 · Remarks on Premature Emancipation to Rep- resentatives of the Churches of Chicago . tember 13 , 1862 Sep- Remarks ...
... Union Meeting in Washington . August 6 , 1862 Address to a Deputation of Colored Men on Colonization . August 14 , 1862 · Remarks on Premature Emancipation to Rep- resentatives of the Churches of Chicago . tember 13 , 1862 Sep- Remarks ...
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... Union League . June 9 , 1864 Remarks to an Ohio Regiment . June 11 , 1864 · • Remarks on the Progress of the War , at a Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia . June 16 , 1864 • Remarks on Amity with Italy , Made in Receiv- ing Commander ...
... Union League . June 9 , 1864 Remarks to an Ohio Regiment . June 11 , 1864 · • Remarks on the Progress of the War , at a Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia . June 16 , 1864 • Remarks on Amity with Italy , Made in Receiv- ing Commander ...
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... Union Committee . November 17 , 1864 PAGE 208 209 210 212 213 214 216 Remarks on Sherman's March to the Sea , in Response to a Serenade . December 6 , 1864 217 Remarks on Edward Everett to a Committee Presenting a Souvenir of Gettysburg ...
... Union Committee . November 17 , 1864 PAGE 208 209 210 212 213 214 216 Remarks on Sherman's March to the Sea , in Response to a Serenade . December 6 , 1864 217 Remarks on Edward Everett to a Committee Presenting a Souvenir of Gettysburg ...
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Page 223 - 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.
Page 29 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union, to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 223 - Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war ; seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
Page 144 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 270 - And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Page 141 - For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy, a year or two hence, arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this. Is there such perfect identity of interests among the States to compose a new union, as to produce harmony only, and prevent renewed secession ? Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy.
Page 171 - What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet.
Page 223 - Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention, and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Page 134 - 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.
Page 253 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by. this sun of York ; And all the clouds, that lowered upon our house, In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.