Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. Showing the Inner Growth, Special Training, and Peculiar Fitness of the Man for His Work |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 42
Page 60
... command of young Allen Gentry , but would never return to the Ohio , for flatboats are built to go down with the stream and not for pulling against it . Abe's hour for travel and adventure had at last arrived 60 ABRAHAM LINCOLN ...
... command of young Allen Gentry , but would never return to the Ohio , for flatboats are built to go down with the stream and not for pulling against it . Abe's hour for travel and adventure had at last arrived 60 ABRAHAM LINCOLN ...
Page 70
... command , as if in any time of special trouble the leadership belonged to him . An empty boat was floated alongside , and the cargo was hoisted into it by main strength , until the grounded craft was sufficiently lightened to be set ...
... command , as if in any time of special trouble the leadership belonged to him . An empty boat was floated alongside , and the cargo was hoisted into it by main strength , until the grounded craft was sufficiently lightened to be set ...
Page 71
... command of her , by thunder , she would have to go ! " The remainder of the trip was much like any other flatboat voyage down the Mississippi ; but at New Orleans and else- where Abe received a repetition of his first lessons on slavery ...
... command of her , by thunder , she would have to go ! " The remainder of the trip was much like any other flatboat voyage down the Mississippi ; but at New Orleans and else- where Abe received a repetition of his first lessons on slavery ...
Page 83
... command of the forces , forbid- ding the discharge of firearms within fifty paces of the camp limits . A military order was nothing but the word of one man , and the prohibition must mean " fifty paces , more or less , " thought Captain ...
... command of the forces , forbid- ding the discharge of firearms within fifty paces of the camp limits . A military order was nothing but the word of one man , and the prohibition must mean " fifty paces , more or less , " thought Captain ...
Page 195
... command of Fort Moultrie , found himself compelled to transfer his small force , with such stores as he could easily move , to Fort Sumter , this being his sole tenable defense . He did so secretly , on the night of December 26 , only ...
... command of Fort Moultrie , found himself compelled to transfer his small force , with such stores as he could easily move , to Fort Sumter , this being his sole tenable defense . He did so secretly , on the night of December 26 , only ...
Contents
13 | |
24 | |
31 | |
40 | |
47 | |
53 | |
60 | |
73 | |
261 | |
267 | |
275 | |
281 | |
289 | |
307 | |
321 | |
328 | |
81 | |
90 | |
99 | |
105 | |
111 | |
127 | |
138 | |
145 | |
154 | |
167 | |
177 | |
192 | |
201 | |
213 | |
227 | |
239 | |
253 | |
343 | |
349 | |
356 | |
371 | |
382 | |
392 | |
402 | |
416 | |
423 | |
433 | |
440 | |
452 | |
457 | |
465 | |
493 | |
500 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abe's Abraham Lincoln affairs afterwards Ann Rutledge appointed arms army battle better Blackhawk War called campaign coln command Confederacy Confederate Congress Constitution Convention course declared Democratic duty election enemy expression fact fathers who framed federacy Federal fight flatboat forces Fort Sumter Frémont friends Gentryville hands heart Herndon hour human Illinois Jefferson Davis Kentucky kind knew live March Maryland matter McClellan ment military mind nation never nomination North once organization party patriotic peace peril political popular Potomac prepared President President's proclamation question ready Rebel Rebellion regiments Republican result Richmond River Salem Sangamon Sangamon County Sangamon River secession Senate Seward slavery slaves soldiers South South Carolina Southern speech Springfield strong sure Territories things tion troops Union Union armies United utterances victory Virginia voted Washington whole young
Popular passages
Page 368 - Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate, as the States...
Page 171 - 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 450 - 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.
Page 470 - ... lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few, not omitting even scaffolding; or, if a single piece be lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared yet to bring...
Page 450 - Fondly do we hope, — fervently do we pray, — that this mighty scourge of war may soon pass away. Yet, If 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 with another drawn with the sword, — as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 224 - South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshals by law...
Page 490 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican President. In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union ; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us ? : That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer...
Page 499 - By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation.
Page 500 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere...
Page 465 - 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 the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...