The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters, and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished, and Illustrated with Many Reproductions from Original Paintings, Photographs, Etc, Volume 3Lincoln History Society, 1900 |
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... ment to the Constitution of the United States had passed the Senate in the all - night session , and as it concerned the sub- ject of his inaugural , he must incorporate a reference to it in the address . Then he had not replied to the ...
... ment to the Constitution of the United States had passed the Senate in the all - night session , and as it concerned the sub- ject of his inaugural , he must incorporate a reference to it in the address . Then he had not replied to the ...
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... ment Mr. Seward had tried to make it . " It is marked , " said the New York " Tribune " of March 5 , " by no feeble expression . He who runs may read ' it ; and to twenty millions of people it will carry the tidings , good or not , as ...
... ment Mr. Seward had tried to make it . " It is marked , " said the New York " Tribune " of March 5 , " by no feeble expression . He who runs may read ' it ; and to twenty millions of people it will carry the tidings , good or not , as ...
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... ment . " The style of the address is as characteristic as its tem- per , " said the Boston " Transcript . " " It has not one fawn- ing expression in the whole course of its firm and explicit statements . The language is level to the ...
... ment . " The style of the address is as characteristic as its tem- per , " said the Boston " Transcript . " " It has not one fawn- ing expression in the whole course of its firm and explicit statements . The language is level to the ...
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... ment of the people by the same people can or can not main- tain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes . So viewing the issue , no choice was left but to call out the war power of the government ; and so to resist force ...
... ment of the people by the same people can or can not main- tain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes . So viewing the issue , no choice was left but to call out the war power of the government ; and so to resist force ...
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... ment officials , foreign ministers , governors , senators , office- seekers " were pressed into one or the other of two impromptu organizations , the Clay Battalion of Cassius M. Clay , and the Frontier Guards of Senator Lane of Kansas ...
... ment officials , foreign ministers , governors , senators , office- seekers " were pressed into one or the other of two impromptu organizations , the Clay Battalion of Cassius M. Clay , and the Frontier Guards of Senator Lane of Kansas ...
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Page 10 - 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 12 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 9 - 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 6 - 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 50 - 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 6 - 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 138 - 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 118 - 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 8 - 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 116 - 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.