Portrait Life of Lincoln: Life of Abraham Lincoln, the Greatest American |
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... hear the clanking shackles break from the arms of three million human beings , as though he could hear the anguished sigh that arose from three million human hearts . Original negative taken by Alexander Gardner at Washington , in G6.
... hear the clanking shackles break from the arms of three million human beings , as though he could hear the anguished sigh that arose from three million human hearts . Original negative taken by Alexander Gardner at Washington , in G6.
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... Alexander Gardner at Washington , in 1863 , when Lincoln , age 54 , broke the chains that had bound three million slaves Negative in the Collection of Americana of Frederick H. Meserve , New York THE GREATEST SACRIFICE OF LINCOLN'S LIFE ...
... Alexander Gardner at Washington , in 1863 , when Lincoln , age 54 , broke the chains that had bound three million slaves Negative in the Collection of Americana of Frederick H. Meserve , New York THE GREATEST SACRIFICE OF LINCOLN'S LIFE ...
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... Alexander Gardner on November 19 , 1863 , while Lincoln was delivering his famous Gettysburg address at the consecration of the cemetery Original in the Brady - Gardner Collection at Springfield , Massachusetts Copyrighted , 1910 , by ...
... Alexander Gardner on November 19 , 1863 , while Lincoln was delivering his famous Gettysburg address at the consecration of the cemetery Original in the Brady - Gardner Collection at Springfield , Massachusetts Copyrighted , 1910 , by ...
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... Alexander Gardner at Washington - Print from the Collection PRESIDENT LINCOLN ABOUT THE TIME OF THE FALL OF RICHMOND. of Mr. Frederick H. Meserve of New York.
... Alexander Gardner at Washington - Print from the Collection PRESIDENT LINCOLN ABOUT THE TIME OF THE FALL OF RICHMOND. of Mr. Frederick H. Meserve of New York.
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... Alexander Gardner at Washington - Print from the Collection of Mr. L. C. Handy in Washington , District of Columbia Photograph of Lincoln at his second inauguration in 1865 , age 56 years - Original negative by H. F. Warren , Waltham ...
... Alexander Gardner at Washington - Print from the Collection of Mr. L. C. Handy in Washington , District of Columbia Photograph of Lincoln at his second inauguration in 1865 , age 56 years - Original negative by H. F. Warren , Waltham ...
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Page 137 - 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 46 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." 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 30 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 134 - Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?
Page 124 - If any man at this day sincerely believes that a proper division of local from Federal authority, or any part of the Constitution, forbids the Federal Government to control as to slavery in the Federal Territories...
Page 124 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now.
Page 133 - 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 140 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of...
Page 133 - ... rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to Its own judgment exclusively, Is essential to that balance of...
Page 137 - I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution — which amendment, however, I have not seen — has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said...