Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time: His Cause, His Character, and True Place in History, and the Men, Statesmen, Heroes, Patriots, who Formed the Illustrious League about Him, Volume 2Blakely-Oswald Printing Company, 1907 |
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... party form , were tolerating and sustaining this sum of human misery . The Whig party , with as distinguished , powerful , and patriotic a leader as Winfield Scott , rang its last tattoo and sounded its last battle - call . The ...
... party form , were tolerating and sustaining this sum of human misery . The Whig party , with as distinguished , powerful , and patriotic a leader as Winfield Scott , rang its last tattoo and sounded its last battle - call . The ...
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... party beliefs of the pro- jectors of this segment of the breaking - up Whig party , had no distinct feature except its professed Americanism . Its relation to the slavery question , the principal topic of the time , was the same as that ...
... party beliefs of the pro- jectors of this segment of the breaking - up Whig party , had no distinct feature except its professed Americanism . Its relation to the slavery question , the principal topic of the time , was the same as that ...
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... Whig party , though agreeing with the Democratic party's declaration on slavery , would not unite with them because most of them were taught and learned , as their course of political action , to oppose Democracy and every- thing known ...
... Whig party , though agreeing with the Democratic party's declaration on slavery , would not unite with them because most of them were taught and learned , as their course of political action , to oppose Democracy and every- thing known ...
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... Whig party , who were scarcely anti - slavery , but strongly democratic , and who would not support any one for office whom they chose to designate " an Abolitionist . " Of such there were a num- ber in Illinois , whom Mr. Lincoln had ...
... Whig party , who were scarcely anti - slavery , but strongly democratic , and who would not support any one for office whom they chose to designate " an Abolitionist . " Of such there were a num- ber in Illinois , whom Mr. Lincoln had ...
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... Whig , and Van Buren , Dallas , Pierce , and Buchanan , of the Democratic parties . In this review we can see the position and real character of Douglas as a party leader . He was , through all of this period , much the strongest man in his ...
... Whig , and Van Buren , Dallas , Pierce , and Buchanan , of the Democratic parties . In this review we can see the position and real character of Douglas as a party leader . He was , through all of this period , much the strongest man in his ...
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Page 517 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 519 - It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect, are legally void ; and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 521 - 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. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Page 700 - Now we are engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether that Nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that Nation might live.
Page 649 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Page 121 - Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone. In some respects she certainly is not my equal ; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal, and the equal of all others.
Page 517 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. "I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 214 - It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Page 510 - I can say in return, sir, that all the political sentiments I entertain have been drawn, so far as I have been able to draw them, from the sentiments which originated in and were given to the world from this hall. I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Page 278 - It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great Confederacy shall be at peace, and in harmony one with another. Let us Republicans do our part to have it so. Even though much provoked, let us do nothing through passion and ill temper. Even though the Southern people will not so much as listen to us, let us calmly consider their demands, and yield to them if, in our deliberate view of our duty, we possibly can.