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... President's knowledge of the sentiments and conditions of their parts of the country . The first State in which ... President Lincoln and all the mem- bers of the Cabinet , who were there apparently waiting for us . The President ...
... President's knowledge of the sentiments and conditions of their parts of the country . The first State in which ... President Lincoln and all the mem- bers of the Cabinet , who were there apparently waiting for us . The President ...
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... President proposes to do all his work , " he wrote to Mrs. Seward on March 16. He had received , too , at least one severe lesson , which ought to have shown him that it was ... PRESIDENT'S CONSIDERATION , APRIL 1 , 28 LIFE OF LINCOLN.
... President proposes to do all his work , " he wrote to Mrs. Seward on March 16. He had received , too , at least one severe lesson , which ought to have shown him that it was ... PRESIDENT'S CONSIDERATION , APRIL 1 , 28 LIFE OF LINCOLN.
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... President did not understand what was going on before his eyes . General Sherman himself confesses his ... President's face , in which ( at least for those near enough to see it well ) there was the same curious problem of ...
... President did not understand what was going on before his eyes . General Sherman himself confesses his ... President's face , in which ( at least for those near enough to see it well ) there was the same curious problem of ...
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... President and without authority of law . The Czar of Russia could hardly be more absolute in his authority ... President's approbation , to talk with the General " as a friend . " In the meantime , Lincoln's letter of September ...
... President and without authority of law . The Czar of Russia could hardly be more absolute in his authority ... President's approbation , to talk with the General " as a friend . " In the meantime , Lincoln's letter of September ...
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... President was suffer- ing disappointment . At the time when Frémont received the order retiring him , McClellan had ... President's suggestions , when they did not agree with his own ideas , he regarded as an interference . Thus he ...
... President was suffer- ing disappointment . At the time when Frémont received the order retiring him , McClellan had ... President's suggestions , when they did not agree with his own ideas , he regarded as an interference . Thus he ...
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Page 11 - I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 14 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 10 - If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
Page 8 - I, therefore, consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 54 - On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men ; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders ; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life.
Page 8 - 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 141 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 122 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. _ We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth.
Page 10 - 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 118 - I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I " seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.