Politics and Politicians: A Succinct History of the Politics of Illinois from 1856 to 1884, with Anecdotes and Incidents, and Appendix from 1809-1856 |
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... Never lan Abolitionist , 196. " I have never kept liquor in my house and will not begin now , " 197. A One - Idea Court , 197 . CHAPTER XXI - State Campaign of 1866 .. CHAPTER XXII - State Government - 1867 .... Twenty - fifth General ...
... Never lan Abolitionist , 196. " I have never kept liquor in my house and will not begin now , " 197. A One - Idea Court , 197 . CHAPTER XXI - State Campaign of 1866 .. CHAPTER XXII - State Government - 1867 .... Twenty - fifth General ...
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... never been able to dispute , successfully , the right of the Democratic party to control the affairs of the State , and in order that the reader may better understand the causes which led to the formation of the Republican party , brief ...
... never been able to dispute , successfully , the right of the Democratic party to control the affairs of the State , and in order that the reader may better understand the causes which led to the formation of the Republican party , brief ...
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... never to write , talk or even think of politics , to know nothing of public affairs , and therefore had ceased to read newspapers , yet the Missouri question aroused and filled me with alarm . have been among the most sanguine in ...
... never to write , talk or even think of politics , to know nothing of public affairs , and therefore had ceased to read newspapers , yet the Missouri question aroused and filled me with alarm . have been among the most sanguine in ...
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... never be construed to authorize the passage of any act by which any citizen of any of the States of the Union should be excluded from the enjoyment of any privilege to which he may be entitled under the Constitution of the United States ...
... never be construed to authorize the passage of any act by which any citizen of any of the States of the Union should be excluded from the enjoyment of any privilege to which he may be entitled under the Constitution of the United States ...
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... never will I take less than the Missouri Compromise line , extended to the Pacific ocean , with the specific recognition of the right to hold slaves in the territory below that line ; and that , before such Territories are admitted into ...
... never will I take less than the Missouri Compromise line , extended to the Pacific ocean , with the specific recognition of the right to hold slaves in the territory below that line ; and that , before such Territories are admitted into ...
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Page 187 - 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 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.
Page 134 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 187 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Page 12 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 188 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated ^that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 135 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, 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 destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 82 - 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 188 - 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 182 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists." I believe I have no lawful 34 right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 283 - AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, General, that I am equally anxious for peace with yourself, and the whole North entertains the same feeling. The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms, they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed.