Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, Volume 64 |
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... negro , I wish to ask whether you of the South , yourselves , have ever been willing to do as much ? It is kindly provided that of all those who come into the world , only a small percentage are natural tyrants . That percentage is no ...
... negro , I wish to ask whether you of the South , yourselves , have ever been willing to do as much ? It is kindly provided that of all those who come into the world , only a small percentage are natural tyrants . That percentage is no ...
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... telling you that the poor negro has some natural right to himself , —that those who deny it and make mere merchandise of him deserve kickings , contempt , and death . And now why will you ask us to deny the 30 Speeches and Letters of.
... telling you that the poor negro has some natural right to himself , —that those who deny it and make mere merchandise of him deserve kickings , contempt , and death . And now why will you ask us to deny the 30 Speeches and Letters of.
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... negro is not or is a man . If he is not a man , in that case he who is a man may , as a matter of self - government , do just what he pleases with him . But if the negro is a man , is it not to that extent a total destruction of self ...
... negro is not or is a man . If he is not a man , in that case he who is a man may , as a matter of self - government , do just what he pleases with him . But if the negro is a man , is it not to that extent a total destruction of self ...
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... negro slave in America , scarcely less terrible to the contemplation of the free mind , is now as fixed and hopeless of change for the better as that of the lost souls of the finally impenitent . The Autocrat of all the Russias will ...
... negro slave in America , scarcely less terrible to the contemplation of the free mind , is now as fixed and hopeless of change for the better as that of the lost souls of the finally impenitent . The Autocrat of all the Russias will ...
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... negro taken to Kansas is free ; yet in utter disregard of this in the spirit of violence merely that beautiful Legislature gravely passes a law to hang any man who shall venture to inform a negro of his legal rights . This is the ...
... negro taken to Kansas is free ; yet in utter disregard of this in the spirit of violence merely that beautiful Legislature gravely passes a law to hang any man who shall venture to inform a negro of his legal rights . This is the ...
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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...