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... enemies and leaders of a neighborhood feud , Lincoln's self- possession and good temper turned the contest into the beginning of a warm and lasting friendship . If Lincoln's muscles were at times hungry for work , not less so was his ...
... enemies and leaders of a neighborhood feud , Lincoln's self- possession and good temper turned the contest into the beginning of a warm and lasting friendship . If Lincoln's muscles were at times hungry for work , not less so was his ...
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... enemy , than for any cause personal to myself ; so that , if it should so happen that nobody else wishes to be elected , I could not refuse the people the right of sending me again . But to enter myself as a competitor of others , or to ...
... enemy , than for any cause personal to myself ; so that , if it should so happen that nobody else wishes to be elected , I could not refuse the people the right of sending me again . But to enter myself as a competitor of others , or to ...
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... enemies of free institutions , with plausibil- ity , to taunt us as hypocrites ; causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity ; and especially because it forces so many good men among ourselves into an open war with the ...
... enemies of free institutions , with plausibil- ity , to taunt us as hypocrites ; causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity ; and especially because it forces so many good men among ourselves into an open war with the ...
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... enemy . Did we brave all then to falter now ? -now , when that same enemy is wavering , dissevered , and belligerent ? The result is not doubtful . We shall not fail - if we stand firm , we shall not fail . Wise counsels may accelerate ...
... enemy . Did we brave all then to falter now ? -now , when that same enemy is wavering , dissevered , and belligerent ? The result is not doubtful . We shall not fail - if we stand firm , we shall not fail . Wise counsels may accelerate ...
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... enemy of liberty , because the most insidious one ) would have little support in the North , and , by consequence , no capital to trade on in the South , if it were not for his friends thus magnifying him and his humbug . But lastly ...
... enemy of liberty , because the most insidious one ) would have little support in the North , and , by consequence , no capital to trade on in the South , if it were not for his friends thus magnifying him and his humbug . But lastly ...
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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...