Early Speeches: Springfield Speech, Cooper Union Speech, Inaugural Addresses, Gettysburg Address, Selected Letters, Lincoln's Lost SpeechDoubleday, Page, 1902 - 167 pages |
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... wrong . But can we , for that rea- son , run ahead , and infer that he will make any particular change of which he , himself , has given no intimation ? Can we safely base our action upon any such vague inference ? Now , as ever , I ...
... wrong . But can we , for that rea- son , run ahead , and infer that he will make any particular change of which he , himself , has given no intimation ? Can we safely base our action upon any such vague inference ? Now , as ever , I ...
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... wrong principle or practice . If we do repel you by any wrong principle or prac- tice , the fault is ours ; but this brings you to where you ought to have started - to a discus- sion of the right or wrong of our principle . If our ...
... wrong principle or practice . If we do repel you by any wrong principle or prac- tice , the fault is ours ; but this brings you to where you ought to have started - to a discus- sion of the right or wrong of our principle . If our ...
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... wrong your section for the benefit of ours , or for any other object , then our principle , and we with it , are sectional , and are justly opposed and denounced as such . Meet us , then , on the question of whether our principle , put ...
... wrong your section for the benefit of ours , or for any other object , then our principle , and we with it , are sectional , and are justly opposed and denounced as such . Meet us , then , on the question of whether our principle , put ...
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... wrong ; but the slaves do not hear us declare even this . For anything we say or do , the slaves would scarcely know there is a Republican party . I believe they would not , in fact , generally know it but for your misrepresentations of ...
... wrong ; but the slaves do not hear us declare even this . For anything we say or do , the slaves would scarcely know there is a Republican party . I believe they would not , in fact , generally know it but for your misrepresentations of ...
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... wrong , and join them in calling it right . And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words . Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them . Senator Douglas's new sedition law must be ...
... wrong , and join them in calling it right . And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words . Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them . Senator Douglas's new sedition law must be ...
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Page 24 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 104 - Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. One-eighth 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 90 - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 76 - ... of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend ; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any state or territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
Page 105 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Page 80 - I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken ; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 25 - 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 84 - Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism...
Page 52 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now" I fully indorse this, and I adopt it as a text for this discourse.
Page 93 - 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.