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Page 80
... thanks for the high honor done me , which you now formally announce . Deeply and even painfully sensible of the great responsibility which is in- separable from this high honor - a responsibility which I could almost wish had fallen ...
... thanks for the high honor done me , which you now formally announce . Deeply and even painfully sensible of the great responsibility which is in- separable from this high honor - a responsibility which I could almost wish had fallen ...
Page 85
... thank you . Having said this much , allow me now to say that it is my wish that you will hear this public discussion by others of our friends who are present for the purpose of addressing you , and that you will kindly let me be silent ...
... thank you . Having said this much , allow me now to say that it is my wish that you will hear this public discussion by others of our friends who are present for the purpose of addressing you , and that you will kindly let me be silent ...
Page 86
... thank you in common with all those who have thought fit by their votes to indorse the Republican cause . I rejoice ... thanks , and to excuse me from further speaking at this time . Political Opponents in the Cabinet . EDITORIAL IN THE ...
... thank you in common with all those who have thought fit by their votes to indorse the Republican cause . I rejoice ... thanks , and to excuse me from further speaking at this time . Political Opponents in the Cabinet . EDITORIAL IN THE ...
Page 87
... thank you for this magnificent reception ; and while I cannot take to myself any share of the compliment thus paid , more than that which pertains to a mere instrument — an accidental instrument perhaps I should say - of a great cause ...
... thank you for this magnificent reception ; and while I cannot take to myself any share of the compliment thus paid , more than that which pertains to a mere instrument — an accidental instrument perhaps I should say - of a great cause ...
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Abraham Lincoln Marion Mills Miller. most heartily do I thank you for it . You have been pleased to address yourself to me chiefly in behalf of this glorious Union in which we live , in all of which you have my hearty sympathy , and , as ...
Abraham Lincoln Marion Mills Miller. most heartily do I thank you for it . You have been pleased to address yourself to me chiefly in behalf of this glorious Union in which we live , in all of which you have my hearty sympathy , and , as ...
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Page 3 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union, to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 128 - The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
Page 128 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 129 - 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 129 - 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 165 - And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Page 66 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern states, that, by the accession of a Republican administration, their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension.
Page 157 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by. this sun of York ; And all the clouds, that lowered upon our house, In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Page 32 - Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried ? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by our fathers who framed the government under which we live...
Page 33 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that "no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...