The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of the Martyred PresidentJohn Gilmary Shea |
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Page 58
... firing behind his neck , between his legs , and in many strange and awkward positions . For his escape he had no less carefully provided . He took a stable in the alley in the rear of the theatre , and on the after- noon of Friday hired ...
... firing behind his neck , between his legs , and in many strange and awkward positions . For his escape he had no less carefully provided . He took a stable in the alley in the rear of the theatre , and on the after- noon of Friday hired ...
Page 64
... fired . I turned , looked up at the President's box , heard the man exclaim ' Sic semper tyrannis , ' saw him jump from the box , seize the flag on the staff , and drop to the stage ; he slipped when he gained the stage , but got upon ...
... fired . I turned , looked up at the President's box , heard the man exclaim ' Sic semper tyrannis , ' saw him jump from the box , seize the flag on the staff , and drop to the stage ; he slipped when he gained the stage , but got upon ...
Page 66
... fired behind the scenes , on the right of the stage . Looking to- wards it and behind the Presidential box , while it startled all , it was evidently accepted by every one in the theatre as an introduction to some new passage , several ...
... fired behind the scenes , on the right of the stage . Looking to- wards it and behind the Presidential box , while it startled all , it was evidently accepted by every one in the theatre as an introduction to some new passage , several ...
Page 72
... fired so closely to to the head . The ball was evidently a derringer , hand cast , and from which the neck had been clipped . A shaving of lead had been removed from the ball in its passage of the bones of the skull , and was found in ...
... fired so closely to to the head . The ball was evidently a derringer , hand cast , and from which the neck had been clipped . A shaving of lead had been removed from the ball in its passage of the bones of the skull , and was found in ...
Page 173
... firing in mem- ory of the honored dead . The hall was draped in the most artistic style , and in the centre , behind the Speaker's desk , was a portrait of President Lincoln , looking natural as life . The Speaker's desk was handsomely ...
... firing in mem- ory of the honored dead . The hall was draped in the most artistic style , and in the centre , behind the Speaker's desk , was a portrait of President Lincoln , looking natural as life . The Speaker's desk was handsomely ...
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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.