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Page xii
... reason for their promulgation . One classification , therefore , would be logically sufficient , but Lincoln's pre- eminent fame as the great emancipator justifies from a practical point of view the segregation of those papers relating ...
... reason for their promulgation . One classification , therefore , would be logically sufficient , but Lincoln's pre- eminent fame as the great emancipator justifies from a practical point of view the segregation of those papers relating ...
Page xiv
... reason and consequent firmness of the people , without which that presence of mind , no less essential in times of moral than of material peril , will be wanting at the critical mo- ment . Would this fervor of the Free States hold out ...
... reason and consequent firmness of the people , without which that presence of mind , no less essential in times of moral than of material peril , will be wanting at the critical mo- ment . Would this fervor of the Free States hold out ...
Page xvii
... reasons enough of settled gravity against any over - confidence of hope . A war - which , whether we consider the expanse of the territory at stake , the hosts brought into the field , or the reach of the principles involved , may ...
... reasons enough of settled gravity against any over - confidence of hope . A war - which , whether we consider the expanse of the territory at stake , the hosts brought into the field , or the reach of the principles involved , may ...
Page xxi
... reason of the people was to be reached and kindled through their sentiments . It was one of those periods of excitement , gathering , contagious , universal , which , while they last , exalt and clarify the minds of men , giving to the ...
... reason of the people was to be reached and kindled through their sentiments . It was one of those periods of excitement , gathering , contagious , universal , which , while they last , exalt and clarify the minds of men , giving to the ...
Page xxvii
... reason why he should govern Americans the less wisely . People of more sensitive organizations may be shocked , but we are glad that in this our true war of independence , which is to free us for- ever from the Old World , we have had ...
... reason why he should govern Americans the less wisely . People of more sensitive organizations may be shocked , but we are glad that in this our true war of independence , which is to free us for- ever from the Old World , we have had ...
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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...