A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay and Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a HistoryCentury Company, 1902 - 578 pages |
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... Senator Brown's Questions - Lincoln's Warn- ing against Popular Sovereignty - The War of Pamphlets- Lincoln's Ohio Speeches - The John Brown Raid — Lincoln's Comment ix PAGE . 118 X - Lincoln's Kansas Speeches - The Cooper Institute ...
... Senator Brown's Questions - Lincoln's Warn- ing against Popular Sovereignty - The War of Pamphlets- Lincoln's Ohio Speeches - The John Brown Raid — Lincoln's Comment ix PAGE . 118 X - Lincoln's Kansas Speeches - The Cooper Institute ...
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... for governor , for Congress , and for the State Senate . The scope of discussion was enlarged and localized . From the published address of an indus- ELECTED TO LEGISLATURE 43 trious aspirant who received only ninety 42 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... for governor , for Congress , and for the State Senate . The scope of discussion was enlarged and localized . From the published address of an indus- ELECTED TO LEGISLATURE 43 trious aspirant who received only ninety 42 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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... Senate , and a technical , but legally questionable , two - thirds majority in the House , submitted to popular vote an act calling a State convention to change the constitu- tion . It happened , fortunately , that Governor Coles ...
... Senate , and a technical , but legally questionable , two - thirds majority in the House , submitted to popular vote an act calling a State convention to change the constitu- tion . It happened , fortunately , that Governor Coles ...
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... senators , congressmen , jurists , orators , and battle heroes lent the little social reunions of Spring- field a zest and exaltation never found - perhaps impos- sible amid the heavy , oppressive surroundings of conventional ceremony ...
... senators , congressmen , jurists , orators , and battle heroes lent the little social reunions of Spring- field a zest and exaltation never found - perhaps impos- sible amid the heavy , oppressive surroundings of conventional ceremony ...
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... senator from two States , was at that time auditor of Illinois , with his office at Springfield . Shields was an Irishman by birth , and , for an active politician of the Democratic party , had the misfortune to be both sensitive and 5.
... senator from two States , was at that time auditor of Illinois , with his office at Springfield . Shields was an Irishman by birth , and , for an active politician of the Democratic party , had the misfortune to be both sensitive and 5.
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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 512 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage. This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to their homes, not to be disturbed by United States authority so long as they observe their paroles and the laws in force where they may reside.
Page 181 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "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 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 494 - 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 139 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the National Territories, and to overrun us here in these Free States?
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 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 219 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men...
Page 336 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.