Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. Showing the Inner Growth, Special Training, and Peculiar Fitness of the Man for His Work |
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... Hour and the Man - The Proclamation - Waiting for the Victory - An Unpre- pared People - Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus - Visiting the Army- The Reply of the Opposition . CHAPTER XLII . THE HARDEST BLOW , · Home - Life in the ...
... Hour and the Man - The Proclamation - Waiting for the Victory - An Unpre- pared People - Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus - Visiting the Army- The Reply of the Opposition . CHAPTER XLII . THE HARDEST BLOW , · Home - Life in the ...
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... Hours for the President - Dark- ness at the South - Statesmen under an Hallucination - The Second Invasion of the North - Hooker Succeeded by Meade . THE TURNING POINT , CHAPTER XLVIII . The Eve of Battle - The Surrender of Vicksburg ...
... Hours for the President - Dark- ness at the South - Statesmen under an Hallucination - The Second Invasion of the North - Hooker Succeeded by Meade . THE TURNING POINT , CHAPTER XLVIII . The Eve of Battle - The Surrender of Vicksburg ...
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... hour the next morning , the Lincoln family were gathered on the bank of the Rolling Fork to see the precious flatboat pushed away . She had been built and launched at the mouth of Knob Creek , a stream that ran past their own cabin ...
... hour the next morning , the Lincoln family were gathered on the bank of the Rolling Fork to see the precious flatboat pushed away . She had been built and launched at the mouth of Knob Creek , a stream that ran past their own cabin ...
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... hour of his morning - time , was the form of his first , his own mother . God is very merci- ful to children as to all their early troubles and bereavements ; and little Abe had been without any mother at all for nearly a year and a ...
... hour of his morning - time , was the form of his first , his own mother . God is very merci- ful to children as to all their early troubles and bereavements ; and little Abe had been without any mother at all for nearly a year and a ...
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... hours . In the first place , the body which contained him was grow- ing at such a tremendous rate that he was a man in height be- fore he was fifteen years old , and by the time he passed his seventeenth birthday he was as tall as he ...
... hours . In the first place , the body which contained him was grow- ing at such a tremendous rate that he was a man in height be- fore he was fifteen years old , and by the time he passed his seventeenth birthday he was as tall as he ...
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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...