The Lincoln Memorial: Album-immortelles: Original Life Pictures, with Autographs, from the Hands and Hearts of Eminent Americans and Europeans, Contemporaries of the Great Martyr to Liberty, Abraham Lincoln. Together with Extracts from His Speeches, Letters and Sayings |
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Page 49
... Constitution will permit to maintain their just rights . But , ' said he , rising upon his feet and raising his arm , ' if the Southern States attempt to secede , I am in favor of their having just so many slaves , and just so much ...
... Constitution will permit to maintain their just rights . But , ' said he , rising upon his feet and raising his arm , ' if the Southern States attempt to secede , I am in favor of their having just so many slaves , and just so much ...
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... constitutional means by the ballot . He did not foresee , nor even dream ( unless in those dim mysterious shadows , which sometimes startle by half revealing the future ) , his own elevation to the presidency . He did not then suspect ...
... constitutional means by the ballot . He did not foresee , nor even dream ( unless in those dim mysterious shadows , which sometimes startle by half revealing the future ) , his own elevation to the presidency . He did not then suspect ...
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... CONSTITUTION . Meanwhile Lincoln had been triumphantly re - elected ; Congress had , as before stated , abolished slavery at the Capital , prohibited it in all the territories , declared all negro soldiers in the Union armies , and ...
... CONSTITUTION . Meanwhile Lincoln had been triumphantly re - elected ; Congress had , as before stated , abolished slavery at the Capital , prohibited it in all the territories , declared all negro soldiers in the Union armies , and ...
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... Constitutional Amendment ( perhaps the greatest in our congressional history , cer- tainly the most important since the adoption of the Con- stitution ) ran through two sessions of Congress . Charles Sumner , the learned Senator from ...
... Constitutional Amendment ( perhaps the greatest in our congressional history , cer- tainly the most important since the adoption of the Con- stitution ) ran through two sessions of Congress . Charles Sumner , the learned Senator from ...
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... Constitutional Amendment . The North and South , " said he , " can never live at peace with each other except as one nation and that with- out slavery . " * GARFIELD'S SPEECH . I would be glad to quote from this great debate , but must ...
... Constitutional Amendment . The North and South , " said he , " can never live at peace with each other except as one nation and that with- out slavery . " * GARFIELD'S SPEECH . I would be glad to quote from this great debate , but must ...
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