Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public ServicesB.B. Russell, 1865 - 216 pages |
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... soon floating down the stream , on his way to Indiana to select a new home . His journey down the Rolling Fork and into the Ohio River , was successfully accomplished ; but , soon afterwards , his boat was unfortunately upset , and its ...
... soon floating down the stream , on his way to Indiana to select a new home . His journey down the Rolling Fork and into the Ohio River , was successfully accomplished ; but , soon afterwards , his boat was unfortunately upset , and its ...
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... soon after presented to him , he gained the aptness of illustration which has made " the President's last anecdote " a byword ; and from the best of books and Catechism he gathered those ripe sheaves of wisdom which fitted him for his ...
... soon after presented to him , he gained the aptness of illustration which has made " the President's last anecdote " a byword ; and from the best of books and Catechism he gathered those ripe sheaves of wisdom which fitted him for his ...
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... soon found himself busied in writing letters for his neighbors . - President Lincoln never forgot his mother . It was very long before the loneliness and desolation of that sad bereavement passed away . Her lessons of divinest wisdom he ...
... soon found himself busied in writing letters for his neighbors . - President Lincoln never forgot his mother . It was very long before the loneliness and desolation of that sad bereavement passed away . Her lessons of divinest wisdom he ...
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... soon raised there ; and such was the confidence of his fellow - townsmen and comrades- in - arms , that they unanimously chose him to be their captain , an office which he reluctantly accepted , having a modest doubt of his own ability ...
... soon raised there ; and such was the confidence of his fellow - townsmen and comrades- in - arms , that they unanimously chose him to be their captain , an office which he reluctantly accepted , having a modest doubt of his own ability ...
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... soon made his mark : an attempt of a gang of the bullies of the place to give him a beating resulted in the defeat of their champion by the tall sinewy stranger , who at once became a favorite with 1 " The Pioneer Boy , " p . 252 ...
... soon made his mark : an attempt of a gang of the bullies of the place to give him a beating resulted in the defeat of their champion by the tall sinewy stranger , who at once became a favorite with 1 " The Pioneer Boy , " p . 252 ...
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Abraham Lincoln: Is Life and Public Services (Classic Reprint) Phebe A. Hanaford No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 144 - ... 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 123 - In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the National authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts...
Page 149 - 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.
Page 59 - Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren : and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.
Page 144 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans ; Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...
Page 193 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 143 - 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 194 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 183 - tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death ; From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : — Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Page 125 - 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. No foresight can anticipate, nor any document of reasonable length contain, express provisions for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor...