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 DeathIncludes added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by F.B. Carpenter. |
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... effect on and after the day of such proclamation . SEC . 7. That involuntary servitude for the punishment of crime , whereof the party shall have been duly convicted , shall in no wise be pro- hibited by this act . SEO . 8. That for all ...
... effect on and after the day of such proclamation . SEC . 7. That involuntary servitude for the punishment of crime , whereof the party shall have been duly convicted , shall in no wise be pro- hibited by this act . SEO . 8. That for all ...
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... effect that object . They wish us to infer all , from the fact that he now has a little quarrel with the present head of the dynasty ; and that he has regularly voted with us on a single point , upon which he and we have never differed ...
... effect that object . They wish us to infer all , from the fact that he now has a little quarrel with the present head of the dynasty ; and that he has regularly voted with us on a single point , upon which he and we have never differed ...
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... effect , as he did in his speech at Chicago . Then he took up the charge which he had previously made , of the existence of a con- spiracy to extend slavery over the Northern States , and pressed it home , citing as proof a speech which ...
... effect , as he did in his speech at Chicago . Then he took up the charge which he had previously made , of the existence of a con- spiracy to extend slavery over the Northern States , and pressed it home , citing as proof a speech which ...
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... effect which it would have upon the Slavery question among ourselves . In the next debate , at Quincy , besides making some personal points as to the mode in which Douglas had con- ducted the previous discussions , he stated clearly and ...
... effect which it would have upon the Slavery question among ourselves . In the next debate , at Quincy , besides making some personal points as to the mode in which Douglas had con- ducted the previous discussions , he stated clearly and ...
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... effect of these efforts - more particularly his speech at Cooper Institute - and of his debates with Mr. Douglas , was to make Mr. Lincoln decidedly the second choice of the great body of the Republicans of New York , as the candidate ...
... effect of these efforts - more particularly his speech at Cooper Institute - and of his debates with Mr. Douglas , was to make Mr. Lincoln decidedly the second choice of the great body of the Republicans of New York , as the candidate ...
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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...