The Table Talk of Abraham LincolnF. A. Stokes, 1894 - 154 pages |
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... ment as a trustworthy precedent of a constitutional ruler dealing with rebels . Mr. Lincoln put on an expression of grim , sarcastic humor as he replied : 66 Upon questions of history , I must refer you to Mr. Seward , for he is posted ...
... ment as a trustworthy precedent of a constitutional ruler dealing with rebels . Mr. Lincoln put on an expression of grim , sarcastic humor as he replied : 66 Upon questions of history , I must refer you to Mr. Seward , for he is posted ...
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... ment . I know they would suffer much for its sake . I know they would endure evils , long and pa- tiently , before they would ever think of changing it for another . Yet , notwithstanding all this , if the laws be continually despised ...
... ment . I know they would suffer much for its sake . I know they would endure evils , long and pa- tiently , before they would ever think of changing it for another . Yet , notwithstanding all this , if the laws be continually despised ...
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... GEN . J. C. FREMONT . " It is itself the surrender of the government . Can it be pretended that it is any longer the government of the United States - any govern- ment of constitution and laws- wherein a general or a Table Talk . 57.
... GEN . J. C. FREMONT . " It is itself the surrender of the government . Can it be pretended that it is any longer the government of the United States - any govern- ment of constitution and laws- wherein a general or a Table Talk . 57.
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Abraham Lincoln William O. Stoddard. ment of constitution and laws- wherein a general or a President may make permanent rules of prop- erty by proclamation ? " SPEECH AT INDEPENDENCE HALL , PHILADELPHIA , Feb. 20 , 1861 . " I have often ...
Abraham Lincoln William O. Stoddard. ment of constitution and laws- wherein a general or a President may make permanent rules of prop- erty by proclamation ? " SPEECH AT INDEPENDENCE HALL , PHILADELPHIA , Feb. 20 , 1861 . " I have often ...
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... MENT , FALL OF 1864 . " But this government must be preserved , in spite of the acts of any man or set of men . It is worthy your every effort . No- where in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality . To the ...
... MENT , FALL OF 1864 . " But this government must be preserved , in spite of the acts of any man or set of men . It is worthy your every effort . No- where in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality . To the ...
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Page 13 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will...
Page 142 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 23 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Page 130 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of these offences, 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 offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 102 - I do the very best I know how — the very best I can ; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Page 16 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 140 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 15 - I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 83 - I hold that notwithstanding all this there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Page 58 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence, which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.