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... South- ern Leaders - Silence of Mr. Lincoln during the Campaign - Election of Mr. Lincoln -Popular Rejoicing at the North , and Exasperation at the South - Feeling of the Republican Party - Effect upon Mr. Lincoln - An Optical Illusion ...
... South- ern Leaders - Silence of Mr. Lincoln during the Campaign - Election of Mr. Lincoln -Popular Rejoicing at the North , and Exasperation at the South - Feeling of the Republican Party - Effect upon Mr. Lincoln - An Optical Illusion ...
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... South Mountain and Antietam -General McClellan ordered to pursue the Rebels - Stuart's Raid - President's Let- ter to General McClellan - The Army across the Potomac - McClellan relieved of his Command - His Character - General Burnside ...
... South Mountain and Antietam -General McClellan ordered to pursue the Rebels - Stuart's Raid - President's Let- ter to General McClellan - The Army across the Potomac - McClellan relieved of his Command - His Character - General Burnside ...
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... Tennessee ; at a point three and a half miles south or southwest of Atherton's Ferry , ( on the Rolling Fork , ) and six miles from Hodgenville . It was in these two homes * that he spent the first seven 18 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... Tennessee ; at a point three and a half miles south or southwest of Atherton's Ferry , ( on the Rolling Fork , ) and six miles from Hodgenville . It was in these two homes * that he spent the first seven 18 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... South Carolina , to explore that part of Virginia which he then knew as " The Country of Kentucky . " After participating in the most daring and dangerous adventures , and suffering almost incredible hardships , he returned , abund ...
... South Carolina , to explore that part of Virginia which he then knew as " The Country of Kentucky . " After participating in the most daring and dangerous adventures , and suffering almost incredible hardships , he returned , abund ...
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... south and west , and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east . 5th . Whether the people of that settlement , or a majority of them , or any of them , have ever submitted themselves to the government or laws of Texas or of the ...
... south and west , and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east . 5th . Whether the people of that settlement , or a majority of them , or any of them , have ever submitted themselves to the government or laws of Texas or of the ...
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Page 161 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 400 - Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Page 105 - House dissenting), had declared that "by the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war exists between that Government and the United States...
Page 162 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 151 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 503 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Page 211 - If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it are themselves wrong and should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality — its universality ; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension — its enlargement. 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...
Page 210 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican President. In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union ; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us ? That Is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, " stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer...
Page 161 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in...
Page 299 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.