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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... ACTION OF CONGRESS . - THE PEACE CONFERENCE . - ACTION OF CONGRESS . - THE SECESSION MOVE- MENT UNCHECKED . ABRAHAM LINCOLN was elected to be President of the United States on the sixth day of November , 1860. The preliminary canvass ...
... ACTION OF CONGRESS . - THE PEACE CONFERENCE . - ACTION OF CONGRESS . - THE SECESSION MOVE- MENT UNCHECKED . ABRAHAM LINCOLN was elected to be President of the United States on the sixth day of November , 1860. The preliminary canvass ...
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... action of the South , assuming that it was prompted by these apprehensions ; but went on to show that there was no right on the part of any State to secede from the Union , while at the same time he contended that the General Government ...
... action of the South , assuming that it was prompted by these apprehensions ; but went on to show that there was no right on the part of any State to secede from the Union , while at the same time he contended that the General Government ...
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... action of the Senate was somewhat modified by the intervening action of a Peace Conference , which assembled at Washington on the 4th of February , in pursuance of a recommendation of the State of Virginia , embodied in resolutions ...
... action of the Senate was somewhat modified by the intervening action of a Peace Conference , which assembled at Washington on the 4th of February , in pursuance of a recommendation of the State of Virginia , embodied in resolutions ...
Page 207
... action in the premises to this Department . You will , however , neither authorize nor permit any interference , by the troops under your command , with the servants of peaceful citizens , in house or field , nor will you , in any way ...
... action in the premises to this Department . You will , however , neither authorize nor permit any interference , by the troops under your command , with the servants of peaceful citizens , in house or field , nor will you , in any way ...
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... action would tend to weaken the rebel- lion ; and the general policy of the Government upon this subject became the theme of protracted and animated debate . The orders issued by the generals of the army , especially McClellan , Halleck ...
... action would tend to weaken the rebel- lion ; and the general policy of the Government upon this subject became the theme of protracted and animated debate . The orders issued by the generals of the army , especially McClellan , Halleck ...
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Page 669 - 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 668 - 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 669 - 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 456 - 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...