The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 3Lincoln History Society, 1900 |
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... received two days before from Mr. Seward , asking to be released from his promise to accept the portfolio of State . He could wait no longer . " I can't afford , " he said to Mr. Nicolay , his secretary , " to let Seward take the first ...
... received two days before from Mr. Seward , asking to be released from his promise to accept the portfolio of State . He could wait no longer . " I can't afford , " he said to Mr. Nicolay , his secretary , " to let Seward take the first ...
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... received . It is the subject of the most painful solicitude with me , and I feel constrained to beg that you will countermand the withdrawal . The pub- lic interest , I think , demands that you should ; and my per- sonal feelings are ...
... received . It is the subject of the most painful solicitude with me , and I feel constrained to beg that you will countermand the withdrawal . The pub- lic interest , I think , demands that you should ; and my per- sonal feelings are ...
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... received Anderson's letter . What was to be done ? The garrison must not be allowed to starve ; but evidently 20,000 disciplined men could not be had to relieve it - the whole United States army numbered but 16,000 . But if Mr. Lincoln ...
... received Anderson's letter . What was to be done ? The garrison must not be allowed to starve ; but evidently 20,000 disciplined men could not be had to relieve it - the whole United States army numbered but 16,000 . But if Mr. Lincoln ...
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... received , too , at least one severe lesson , which ought to have shown him that it was Mr. Lincoln , not he , who was cast- ing the decisive vote in the cabinet . This was in reference to Sumter . During the period when the President ...
... received , too , at least one severe lesson , which ought to have shown him that it was Mr. Lincoln , not he , who was cast- ing the decisive vote in the cabinet . This was in reference to Sumter . During the period when the President ...
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... received from Spain and France , Would convene Congress and declare war against them . But whatever policy we adopt , there must be an energetic prosecution of it . For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it ...
... received from Spain and France , Would convene Congress and declare war against them . But whatever policy we adopt , there must be an energetic prosecution of it . For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it ...
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Page 11 - 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 118 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 14 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 8 - I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these states is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 10 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people ? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Page 141 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 8 - 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 118 - 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 " seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
Page 54 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men...
Page 10 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it.