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... slavery question , and of the other vital political questions of that day , he recognized that he , and the people whose convictions he represented , if placed in similar circumstances , would in all probability have championed the ...
... slavery question , and of the other vital political questions of that day , he recognized that he , and the people whose convictions he represented , if placed in similar circumstances , would in all probability have championed the ...
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... slavery not raised the issue . But once raised , it had to be faced . Lincoln faced it . And in facing it and ... slavery the issue of the War . Lin- coln and his Cabinet and the leaders of the North said they fought to save the Union ...
... slavery not raised the issue . But once raised , it had to be faced . Lincoln faced it . And in facing it and ... slavery the issue of the War . Lin- coln and his Cabinet and the leaders of the North said they fought to save the Union ...
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... slavery , was the burden of Lincoln's first inauguration message . When the first guns of rebellion were fired on Fort Sumter , to save the Union , not to free the slaves , was the burden of Lincoln's call to arms . That call was ...
... slavery , was the burden of Lincoln's first inauguration message . When the first guns of rebellion were fired on Fort Sumter , to save the Union , not to free the slaves , was the burden of Lincoln's call to arms . That call was ...
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... slavery was the occasion of it , not the cause . Its roots ran far back into that old - world civili- zation from which North and South alike drew their ideals and their life . It was the struggle of the seventeenth century in England ...
... slavery was the occasion of it , not the cause . Its roots ran far back into that old - world civili- zation from which North and South alike drew their ideals and their life . It was the struggle of the seventeenth century in England ...
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... slavery might be dug away forever from the face of this American continent . Canada once had a taste of negro slavery . When the Loyalists of the Revolution chose the old flag rather than the new , they were permitted to bring their ...
... slavery might be dug away forever from the face of this American continent . Canada once had a taste of negro slavery . When the Loyalists of the Revolution chose the old flag rather than the new , they were permitted to bring their ...
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Page 243 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "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 303 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword; as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said — "that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 69 - O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O CAPTAIN ! my Captain ! our fearful trip is done ; The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring. But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies. Fallen cold and dead.
Page 316 - Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Page 172 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 504 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Page 171 - RESOLVED, That the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States, in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Page 532 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 320 - All they ask. we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy.
Page 239 - As the sun, Ere it is risen, sometimes paints its image In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.