History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclamations, and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of His Life |
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... liberty and ultimate emancipation , that they must , if they would do this , go back to the era of our Independence and muzzle the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return ; they must blow out the moral lights around us ; they ...
... liberty and ultimate emancipation , that they must , if they would do this , go back to the era of our Independence and muzzle the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return ; they must blow out the moral lights around us ; they ...
Page 60
... Liberty to ourselves and our pos- terity . " We have the clear and explicit testimony of A. H. Stephens , the Vice - President of the rebel Confederacy , echo- ing and reaffirming that of the whole civilized world , to the fact , that ...
... Liberty to ourselves and our pos- terity . " We have the clear and explicit testimony of A. H. Stephens , the Vice - President of the rebel Confederacy , echo- ing and reaffirming that of the whole civilized world , to the fact , that ...
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... liberty for yourselves , and not for me . I desire they should be constitutionally performed . I , as already intimated , am but an accidental instrument , temporary , and to serve but for a limited time , and I appeal to you again to ...
... liberty for yourselves , and not for me . I desire they should be constitutionally performed . I , as already intimated , am but an accidental instrument , temporary , and to serve but for a limited time , and I appeal to you again to ...
Page 83
... liberty to modify and change the course of policy as future events may make a change necessary . I have not maintained silence from any want of real anxiety . It is a good thing that there is no more than anxiety , for there is nothing ...
... liberty to modify and change the course of policy as future events may make a change necessary . I have not maintained silence from any want of real anxiety . It is a good thing that there is no more than anxiety , for there is nothing ...
Page 88
... liberty and the Union can never be in danger . Frequent allu- sion is made to the excitement at present existing in our national poli- tics , and it is as well that I should also allude to it here . I think that there is no occasion for ...
... liberty and the Union can never be in danger . Frequent allu- sion is made to the excitement at present existing in our national poli- tics , and it is as well that I should also allude to it here . I think that there is no occasion for ...
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