The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and Death |
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They read as follows : Resolved by the House of Representatives , That the President of the United States be respectfully requested to inform this House-- 1st . Whether the spot on which the blood of our citizens was shed , as in his ...
They read as follows : Resolved by the House of Representatives , That the President of the United States be respectfully requested to inform this House-- 1st . Whether the spot on which the blood of our citizens was shed , as in his ...
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That no negro slave , imported as such from Africa , and no descendant of such slave , can ever be a citizen of any State , in the sense of that term as used in the Constitution of the United States . This point is made in order to ...
That no negro slave , imported as such from Africa , and no descendant of such slave , can ever be a citizen of any State , in the sense of that term as used in the Constitution of the United States . This point is made in order to ...
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Certainly , the people of a State are and ought to be subject to the Constitution of the United States ; but why is mention of this lugged into this merely territorial law ? Why are the people of a Territory and the people of a State ...
Certainly , the people of a State are and ought to be subject to the Constitution of the United States ; but why is mention of this lugged into this merely territorial law ? Why are the people of a Territory and the people of a State ...
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in all the Territories of the United States , North as well as South of the Missouri Compromise line ? A. I am impliedly , if not expressly , pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in all the United ...
in all the Territories of the United States , North as well as South of the Missouri Compromise line ? A. I am impliedly , if not expressly , pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in all the United ...
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The policy of the new Confederacy towards the United States was soon officially made known . The government decided to maintain the status quo until the expiration of Mr. Buchanan's term , feeling assured that , with his de- clared ...
The policy of the new Confederacy towards the United States was soon officially made known . The government decided to maintain the status quo until the expiration of Mr. Buchanan's term , feeling assured that , with his de- clared ...
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Page 671 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 260 - State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 163 - 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, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes...
Page 260 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 670 - 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 163 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare...
Page 165 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the National authority.
Page 671 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.
Page 167 - A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Page 458 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder...
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| Title | The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and Death HeinOnline: Core collection HeinOnline: Spinelli's law library reference shelf HeinOnline: U.S. presidential library |
| Authors | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter |
| Publisher | Darby and Miller, 1865 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 808 pages |
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