Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Government, Volumes 1-2Ouseley, 1916 - Constitutions |
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... authority under him , to enforce the laws , and , I , as in duty bound by my oath of fidelity to the constitution , would do all in my power to aid the government of the United States in maintaining the laws against all resistance to ...
... authority under him , to enforce the laws , and , I , as in duty bound by my oath of fidelity to the constitution , would do all in my power to aid the government of the United States in maintaining the laws against all resistance to ...
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... authority of the United States government re - established . Jefferson Davis , as President of the Southern Confederacy , was given almost unlimited power to raise , by draft or otherwise sol- diers for the southern army . All white men ...
... authority of the United States government re - established . Jefferson Davis , as President of the Southern Confederacy , was given almost unlimited power to raise , by draft or otherwise sol- diers for the southern army . All white men ...
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... authorities in West Virginia , Messrs . Nicolay and Hay state : " One is always surprised at the ease with which the President took up these cases of contention between officials , and in a few sentences , pointed out the law and the ...
... authorities in West Virginia , Messrs . Nicolay and Hay state : " One is always surprised at the ease with which the President took up these cases of contention between officials , and in a few sentences , pointed out the law and the ...
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... authority at this critical period who could have been entrusted with the almost despotic discretionary power vested in the President , who would have exercised this power with so much forebearance and wisdom as did this patient and ...
... authority at this critical period who could have been entrusted with the almost despotic discretionary power vested in the President , who would have exercised this power with so much forebearance and wisdom as did this patient and ...
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... authority of Brigadier - General Beauregard , command- ing the provisional forces of the Confederate States , we have the honor to notify you that he will open the fire of his batteries upon Fort Sumter in one hour from this time . We ...
... authority of Brigadier - General Beauregard , command- ing the provisional forces of the Confederate States , we have the honor to notify you that he will open the fire of his batteries upon Fort Sumter in one hour from this time . We ...
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Page 185 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Page 173 - Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void.
Page 115 - ... 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 sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the states and parts of states wherein the people...
Page 232 - ... vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
Page 185 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 92 - The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.
Page 70 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Page 72 - Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Page 121 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 115 - Now therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as commander-inchief 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...