The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters, and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished, and Illustrated with Many Reproductions from Original Paintings, Photographs, Etc, Volume 3Lincoln History Society, 1900 |
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... tell ; but he did know that almost every one of them was waiting with painful eagerness to hear what answer he would make there to the questions they had been hurling at his head since his election . 66 Six weeks before , when he wrote ...
... tell ; but he did know that almost every one of them was waiting with painful eagerness to hear what answer he would make there to the questions they had been hurling at his head since his election . 66 Six weeks before , when he wrote ...
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... tell you he did me a good turn long ago . When I took to the law , I was going to court one morning , with some ten ... telling that evening was used , as often hap- pened , to cover a serious mental struggle . After many of his guests ...
... tell you he did me a good turn long ago . When I took to the law , I was going to court one morning , with some ten ... telling that evening was used , as often hap- pened , to cover a serious mental struggle . After many of his guests ...
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... Tell him that I wish this thing done , and not to let it fail unless he can show that I have refused him something he asked for . By April 6 , news reached Mr. Lincoln from Fort Pick- ens . The commander of the vessel on which the ...
... Tell him that I wish this thing done , and not to let it fail unless he can show that I have refused him something he asked for . By April 6 , news reached Mr. Lincoln from Fort Pick- ens . The commander of the vessel on which the ...
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... tell me that you are an old citizen of Texas and about to return to your home . My object in wishing to see you is that I desire to intrust to you a secret message to Governor Houston . " I said , " Yes , Mr. President , I should have ...
... tell me that you are an old citizen of Texas and about to return to your home . My object in wishing to see you is that I desire to intrust to you a secret message to Governor Houston . " I said , " Yes , Mr. President , I should have ...
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... tell you I have nothing personal in this , having never seen or heard of Colonel Meigs until about the end of last March . But that he could appoint arbitrarily is certain from the following letter : You must make a job of it , and ...
... tell you I have nothing personal in this , having never seen or heard of Colonel Meigs until about the end of last March . But that he could appoint arbitrarily is certain from the following letter : You must make a job of it , and ...
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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.