The One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham LincolnIllinois State Journal Company, State Printers, 1908 - 45 pages |
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... standing undismayed with his back to the wall , looked so formidable in his defiance that an honest admiration took the place of momentary fury , and his initiation was over . As to Armstrong , he was Lincoln's friend and sworn brother ...
... standing undismayed with his back to the wall , looked so formidable in his defiance that an honest admiration took the place of momentary fury , and his initiation was over . As to Armstrong , he was Lincoln's friend and sworn brother ...
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... standing among new - made graves , overwhelmed with grief which they vainly endeavored to conceal . I knew that I was in the midst of a people bowing under great affliction , of a land stricken with sorrow . I knew that the tide of ...
... standing among new - made graves , overwhelmed with grief which they vainly endeavored to conceal . I knew that I was in the midst of a people bowing under great affliction , of a land stricken with sorrow . I knew that the tide of ...
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... standing , With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night , With the countless torches lit , with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads , With the waiting depot , the arriving coffin , and the sombre faces ...
... standing , With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night , With the countless torches lit , with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads , With the waiting depot , the arriving coffin , and the sombre faces ...
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... standing , good will and friendly feeling characterizing the people of the several sections , the one towards the other . I come from that section whose economic and social order was over- turned by that war , and whose material ...
... standing , good will and friendly feeling characterizing the people of the several sections , the one towards the other . I come from that section whose economic and social order was over- turned by that war , and whose material ...
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Page 24 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 27 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
Page 28 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 28 - I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 27 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or 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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 28 - I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming...
Page 26 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 38 - Guid faith he maunna fa' that : For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that; The pith o' sense, and pride o" worth, Are higher rank than a' that Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 27 - My Dear General: I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition...
Page 24 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. 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...