Abraham LincolnChautauqua Press, 1899 - 189 pages |
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... oath to do his duty ; that under that oath he could do no less than he said he would do ; that if the secessionists resisted such an appeal as the President had made , they were bent upon mischief , and that the govern- ment must be ...
... oath to do his duty ; that under that oath he could do no less than he said he would do ; that if the secessionists resisted such an appeal as the President had made , they were bent upon mischief , and that the govern- ment must be ...
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... oath I took that I would , to the best of my ability , preserve , protect , and defend the Constitu- tion of the United States . I could not take the office without taking the oath . Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get ...
... oath I took that I would , to the best of my ability , preserve , protect , and defend the Constitu- tion of the United States . I could not take the office without taking the oath . Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get ...
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... oath to sup- port the Constitution and obey the laws of the United States and the proclamations of the President with regard to slaves ; and also promising that when , in any of the rebel States , a number of citizens equal to one tenth ...
... oath to sup- port the Constitution and obey the laws of the United States and the proclamations of the President with regard to slaves ; and also promising that when , in any of the rebel States , a number of citizens equal to one tenth ...
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... oath of office as President of the United States , and then from the east portico of the Capitol delivered to an immense throng his in augural address . He had written it before coming to Washing- ton , and had asked criticism upon it ...
... oath of office as President of the United States , and then from the east portico of the Capitol delivered to an immense throng his in augural address . He had written it before coming to Washing- ton , and had asked criticism upon it ...
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... oaths are unanimous . Now , if they would make the effort in good temper , could they not , with nearly equal unanim- ity , frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath ? 66 There is some difference of opinion ...
... oaths are unanimous . Now , if they would make the effort in good temper , could they not , with nearly equal unanim- ity , frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath ? 66 There is some difference of opinion ...
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Page 28 - 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. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 50 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 79 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman'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 by 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 42 - Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not, in any case, surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that " the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States?
Page 89 - O Captain! My Captain! O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain!
Page 52 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destrov the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend
Page 89 - For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 59 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 54 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or 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 save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 77 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed very 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.