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... necessity an orator , though his eminence as a speaker may be no true measure either of his momentary power or of his permanent fame , for wisdom , courage and tact bear little direct relation to the gift for speech . But whether that ...
... necessity an orator , though his eminence as a speaker may be no true measure either of his momentary power or of his permanent fame , for wisdom , courage and tact bear little direct relation to the gift for speech . But whether that ...
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... necessity " was the only argument they ever admitted in favour of slavery , and so far , and so far only as it carried them , did they ever go . They found the institution existing among us , which they could not help , Abraham Lincoln ...
... necessity " was the only argument they ever admitted in favour of slavery , and so far , and so far only as it carried them , did they ever go . They found the institution existing among us , which they could not help , Abraham Lincoln ...
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... necessity . But now it is to be transformed into a sacred right . Henceforth it is to be the chief jewel of the nation , —the very figure - head of the ship of State . Little by little , but steadily as man's march to the grave , we ...
... necessity . But now it is to be transformed into a sacred right . Henceforth it is to be the chief jewel of the nation , —the very figure - head of the ship of State . Little by little , but steadily as man's march to the grave , we ...
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... necessity , and the thing is done . Apropos of this , let me tell you an anecdote . Douglas introduced the Nebraska Bill in January . In February afterward , there was a called session of the Illinois Legislature . Of the one hundred ...
... necessity , and the thing is done . Apropos of this , let me tell you an anecdote . Douglas introduced the Nebraska Bill in January . In February afterward , there was a called session of the Illinois Legislature . Of the one hundred ...
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... necessity carried it ; and it was passed through the lower house of Congress against the will of the people , for the same reason . Here is where the greatest danger lies - that , while we profess to be a government of law and reason ...
... necessity carried it ; and it was passed through the lower house of Congress against the will of the people , for the same reason . Here is where the greatest danger lies - that , while we profess to be a government of law and reason ...
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Page 204 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 175 - 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 213 - 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 restingplace for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 194 - I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do rot agree with them.
Page 104 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 203 - ... the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority 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 the people...
Page 194 - I would do it; 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 224 - Oneeighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the War.
Page 202 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 202 - 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...