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Page xiv
... conditions chance might leave dangling for us . We confess that we had our doubts at first whether the patriotism of our people were not too narrowly provincial to embrace the propor- tions of national peril . We felt an only too natu ...
... conditions chance might leave dangling for us . We confess that we had our doubts at first whether the patriotism of our people were not too narrowly provincial to embrace the propor- tions of national peril . We felt an only too natu ...
Page xvi
... conditions of its solution were so intricate and so greatly de- pendent on incalculable and uncontrollable con- tingencies ; so many of the data , whether for hope or fear , were , from their novelty , incapable of arrangement under any ...
... conditions of its solution were so intricate and so greatly de- pendent on incalculable and uncontrollable con- tingencies ; so many of the data , whether for hope or fear , were , from their novelty , incapable of arrangement under any ...
Page xvii
... condition of four millions of people , by softening the prejudices , allaying the fears , and gradually obtaining the coöperation , of their unwilling liberators . Surely , if ever there were an occasion when the heightened imagination ...
... condition of four millions of people , by softening the prejudices , allaying the fears , and gradually obtaining the coöperation , of their unwilling liberators . Surely , if ever there were an occasion when the heightened imagination ...
Page xviii
... condition of the American who does not feel his spirit braced and heightened by being even a spectator of such qualities and achievements . That a steady pur- pose and a definite aim have been given to the jarring forces which , at the ...
... condition of the American who does not feel his spirit braced and heightened by being even a spectator of such qualities and achievements . That a steady pur- pose and a definite aim have been given to the jarring forces which , at the ...
Page xxxviii
... conditions . To contrast the size of the oak with that of the par- ent acorn , as if the poor seed had paid all costs from its slender strong - box , may serve for a child's wonder ; but the real miracle lies in that divine league which ...
... conditions . To contrast the size of the oak with that of the par- ent acorn , as if the poor seed had paid all costs from its slender strong - box , may serve for a child's wonder ; but the real miracle lies in that divine league which ...
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Page 81 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Page 173 - 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 220 - 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 ; and that I will, in like manner.
Page xlvi - And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate.
Page 144 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : SEC.
Page 146 - 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 69 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution...
Page 144 - States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the Government of the United States...
Page 146 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: "Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St.
Page 232 - Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery...