The Words of Abraham LincolnMaynard, Merrill & Company, 1898 - 57 pages |
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... Constitution defied . The war which fo lowed was one of the most extensive and disastrous in history . Magnificent armies , made up of the finest soldiers in the world , contended with each other for four years for the supremacy of the ...
... Constitution defied . The war which fo lowed was one of the most extensive and disastrous in history . Magnificent armies , made up of the finest soldiers in the world , contended with each other for four years for the supremacy of the ...
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... Constitution and laws let every American pledge his life , his property , and his sacred honor ; let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample upon the blood of his father , and to tear the charter of his own and his ...
... Constitution and laws let every American pledge his life , his property , and his sacred honor ; let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample upon the blood of his father , and to tear the charter of his own and his ...
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... Constitution found the institution of slavery amongst their other institutions at the time . They found that by an effort to eradicate it they might lose much of what they had already gained . They were obliged to bow to the necessity ...
... Constitution found the institution of slavery amongst their other institutions at the time . They found that by an effort to eradicate it they might lose much of what they had already gained . They were obliged to bow to the necessity ...
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... Constitution , and the perpetual union , harmony , and prosperity of all , I am most happy to co - operate for the practical success of the principles declared by the convention . Your obliged friend and fellow - citizen , ABRAHAM ...
... Constitution , and the perpetual union , harmony , and prosperity of all , I am most happy to co - operate for the practical success of the principles declared by the convention . Your obliged friend and fellow - citizen , ABRAHAM ...
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... Constitution of the United States to be taken by the President before he enters on the execution of his office . I do not consider it necessary , at present , for me to discuss those matters of administration about which there is no spe ...
... Constitution of the United States to be taken by the President before he enters on the execution of his office . I do not consider it necessary , at present , for me to discuss those matters of administration about which there is no spe ...
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Page 25 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the motherland; but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.
Page 43 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 26 - 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. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in...
Page 46 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 43 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 45 - Navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority of, 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 and parts of States wherein...
Page 28 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 53 - All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.
Page 19 - That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world.
Page 29 - 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? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.