The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters, and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished, and Illustrated with Many Reproductions from Original Paintings, Photographs, Etc, Volume 3Lincoln History Society, 1900 |
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... Seward's Ambition to Control the Admin- PAGE istration · I XXIII . The Beginning of Civil War • 33 XXIV . The Failure of Frémont - Lincoln's First Difficulties with McClellan - The Death of Willie Lincoln . • 61 XXV . Lincoln and ...
... Seward's Ambition to Control the Admin- PAGE istration · I XXIII . The Beginning of Civil War • 33 XXIV . The Failure of Frémont - Lincoln's First Difficulties with McClellan - The Death of Willie Lincoln . • 61 XXV . Lincoln and ...
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... Seward , asking to be released from his promise to accept the portfolio of State . He could wait no longer . " I can't afford , " he said to Mr. Nicolay , his secretary , " to let Seward take the first trick . " And he despatched the ...
... Seward , asking to be released from his promise to accept the portfolio of State . He could wait no longer . " I can't afford , " he said to Mr. Nicolay , his secretary , " to let Seward take the first trick . " And he despatched the ...
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... Seward a copy of the paper he had prepared , and to ask for his criticisms . Of the paragraphs quoted above , Mr. Seward wrote : I declare to you my conviction that the second and 6 LIFE OF LINCOLN.
... Seward a copy of the paper he had prepared , and to ask for his criticisms . Of the paragraphs quoted above , Mr. Seward wrote : I declare to you my conviction that the second and 6 LIFE OF LINCOLN.
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... Seward disapproved of the entire selection and prepared a non - committal substitute . Mr. Lincoln , how- ever , retained his own sentences . The foregoing quotations are a fairly complete expression of what may be called Mr. Lincoln's ...
... Seward disapproved of the entire selection and prepared a non - committal substitute . Mr. Lincoln , how- ever , retained his own sentences . The foregoing quotations are a fairly complete expression of what may be called Mr. Lincoln's ...
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... Seward objected , and submitted two suggestions for a closing ; one of his paragraphs read as follows : I close . We are not , we must not be , aliens or enemies , but fellow - countrymen and brethren . Although passion has strained our ...
... Seward objected , and submitted two suggestions for a closing ; one of his paragraphs read as follows : I close . We are not , we must not be , aliens or enemies , but fellow - countrymen and brethren . Although passion has strained our ...
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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.