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... confidence to undertake this task in shipbuilding . From the after history of both Johnston and Hanks , we know that neither of them I was gifted with skill or industry , and it becomes clear that Lincoln was from the first leader of ...
... confidence to undertake this task in shipbuilding . From the after history of both Johnston and Hanks , we know that neither of them I was gifted with skill or industry , and it becomes clear that Lincoln was from the first leader of ...
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... confidence . Relatively speaking , he was neither uneducated nor friendless . His acquirements were already far beyond the simple elements of reading , writing , and ciphering . He wrote a good , clear , serviceable hand ; he could talk ...
... confidence . Relatively speaking , he was neither uneducated nor friendless . His acquirements were already far beyond the simple elements of reading , writing , and ciphering . He wrote a good , clear , serviceable hand ; he could talk ...
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... similar establishments that were in extremity , and for these likewise gave their notes . It is evident that the confidence which Lincoln had inspired while he was a clerk in Offutt's store , and the enthusiastic support.
... similar establishments that were in extremity , and for these likewise gave their notes . It is evident that the confidence which Lincoln had inspired while he was a clerk in Offutt's store , and the enthusiastic support.
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... confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank . But this transmutation was not at- tained until he had passed through a ...
... confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank . But this transmutation was not at- tained until he had passed through a ...
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... confidence in the future . Through all his misfortunes and his failures , he preserved his self - respect and his determination to succeed . Two years had nearly elapsed since he was defeated for the legislature , and , having received ...
... confidence in the future . Through all his misfortunes and his failures , he preserved his self - respect and his determination to succeed . Two years had nearly elapsed since he was defeated for the legislature , and , having received ...
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Page 119 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. 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 344 - ... commander-in-chief of the army and navy of 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...
Page 496 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge...
Page 336 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Page 340 - 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 367 - What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you.
Page 123 - It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a Territory under the Constitution, the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
Page 344 - Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as commander-in-chief of the army and navy of 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...
Page 47 - They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy; but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than to abate its evils. They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power, under the constitution, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States.
Page 139 - If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and...