Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 6Century Company, 1890 - United States |
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... wrote to the President April 18 , 1874 , asking him to examine as fully into the question as he thought justice or mercy demanded ; or to order a board of competent officers of high rank , unconnected with the ar- mies or transactions ...
... wrote to the President April 18 , 1874 , asking him to examine as fully into the question as he thought justice or mercy demanded ; or to order a board of competent officers of high rank , unconnected with the ar- mies or transactions ...
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A History John George Nicolay, John Hay. he changed his mind and wrote a paper in favor of CHAP . I. General Porter . An advisory board consisting of Generals Schofield , Terry , and Getty , appointed by President Hayes to reëxamine the ...
A History John George Nicolay, John Hay. he changed his mind and wrote a paper in favor of CHAP . I. General Porter . An advisory board consisting of Generals Schofield , Terry , and Getty , appointed by President Hayes to reëxamine the ...
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... wrote : " I hope Mac is at work W. R. Vol . XII . , Part III . , and we will soon get ordered out of this . It would seem , from proper statements of the enemy , that he was wandering around loose ; but I expect they know what they are ...
... wrote : " I hope Mac is at work W. R. Vol . XII . , Part III . , and we will soon get ordered out of this . It would seem , from proper statements of the enemy , that he was wandering around loose ; but I expect they know what they are ...
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... wrote , shortly before his death , he gave this absolutely new and most remarkable account of the visit which Lincoln and Halleck made to him on the 2d of September : He [ the President ] then said that he regarded Wash- ington as lost ...
... wrote , shortly before his death , he gave this absolutely new and most remarkable account of the visit which Lincoln and Halleck made to him on the 2d of September : He [ the President ] then said that he regarded Wash- ington as lost ...
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... wrote to his wife : " I do not regard Washington as safe against the rebels . If I can quietly slip over there I will send your silver off . " If it were worth while to cumber these pages with the refutation of a calumny so ...
... wrote to his wife : " I do not regard Washington as safe against the rebels . If I can quietly slip over there I will send your silver off . " If it were worth while to cumber these pages with the refutation of a calumny so ...
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Page 347 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 414 - Portsmouth and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid i do order and declare 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 236 - ... lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid.
Page 414 - 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 sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly...
Page 168 - 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 442 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that in all cases when allowed they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 153 - 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.
Page 414 - 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 155 - What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated ? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet.
Page 341 - The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the Divine Will demand that Sunday labor in the Army and Navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity. The discipline and character of the national forces should not suffer nor the cause they defend be imperiled by the profanation of the day or name of the Most High. 'At this time of public...