The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of the Martyred PresidentJohn Gilmary Shea |
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... Constitutional Convention , Mr. Lincoln studied surveying , and soon met with sufficient employment ; but diffi- culties weighed so heavily on him , that his instruments were actually at one time seized for debt . He still took an ...
... Constitutional Convention , Mr. Lincoln studied surveying , and soon met with sufficient employment ; but diffi- culties weighed so heavily on him , that his instruments were actually at one time seized for debt . He still took an ...
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... Constitution , to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States . " 6 They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power , under the Constitution , to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia ; but ...
... Constitution , to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States . " 6 They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power , under the Constitution , to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia ; but ...
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... Constitution , and the perpetual union , harmony , and prosperity of all , I am most happy to co - operate for the practical success of the principles declared by the Convention . " Your obliged friend and fellow - citizen , ' ABRAHAM ...
... Constitution , and the perpetual union , harmony , and prosperity of all , I am most happy to co - operate for the practical success of the principles declared by the Convention . " Your obliged friend and fellow - citizen , ' ABRAHAM ...
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... constitutional objection . His antagonist , Mr. Breckenridge , since a rebel general and Secre- tary of War , declared officially , as Vice - President of the United States , that Abraham Lincoln was lawfully elected President of the ...
... constitutional objection . His antagonist , Mr. Breckenridge , since a rebel general and Secre- tary of War , declared officially , as Vice - President of the United States , that Abraham Lincoln was lawfully elected President of the ...
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... Constitution , and proceeding to the choice of a President and Vice - President . On the 11th of February , Mr. Lincoln left his home in Spring- field . He could not conceal from himself the terrible task be- fore him . To him the ...
... Constitution , and proceeding to the choice of a President and Vice - President . On the 11th of February , Mr. Lincoln left his home in Spring- field . He could not conceal from himself the terrible task be- fore him . To him the ...
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Page 28 - Resolved, that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 51 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in ; to bind up the nation's wounds ;. to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan ; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Page 44 - ... that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free and that the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...
Page 33 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends?
Page 44 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 32 - Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Page 46 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the union of the States thereunder; and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress, passed during the existing rebellion, with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress, or by decision of the Supreme Court...
Page 35 - By the frame of the Government under which we live this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance no Administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years.
Page 37 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 32 - All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guarantees and prohibitions, in the Constitution that controversies never arise concerning them. But no organic law can ever be framed -with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration.