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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 10
Page 230
... emancipation deprives them of it , and of all the States initiating it . The point is not that all the States tolerating slavery would very soon , if at all , initiate emancipation ; but while the offer is equally made to all , the more ...
... emancipation deprives them of it , and of all the States initiating it . The point is not that all the States tolerating slavery would very soon , if at all , initiate emancipation ; but while the offer is equally made to all , the more ...
Page 235
... emancipation Message of last March , the war would now be substantially ended . And the plan therein proposed is yet one of the most potent and swift means of ending it . Let the States which are in rebellion see definitely and cer ...
... emancipation Message of last March , the war would now be substantially ended . And the plan therein proposed is yet one of the most potent and swift means of ending it . Let the States which are in rebellion see definitely and cer ...
Page 355
... emancipation will follow in at least several of the States . As to the first article , the main points are : first , the emancipation ; secondly , the length of time for consummating it - thirty - seven years ; and , thirdly , the ...
... emancipation will follow in at least several of the States . As to the first article , the main points are : first , the emancipation ; secondly , the length of time for consummating it - thirty - seven years ; and , thirdly , the ...
Page 426
... emancipation was in advance of the Government at Washington . " You have risen , " said this address , " too fast in popular favor . The policy announced in your proclamation , although hailed as a political and military necessity ...
... emancipation was in advance of the Government at Washington . " You have risen , " said this address , " too fast in popular favor . The policy announced in your proclamation , although hailed as a political and military necessity ...
Page 427
... emancipation of slavery , giving to such State , at its dis- cretion , compensation for the inconvenience , public ... emancipation on the basis proposed . At the State election , in the following November , the question of ...
... emancipation of slavery , giving to such State , at its dis- cretion , compensation for the inconvenience , public ... emancipation on the basis proposed . At the State election , in the following November , the question of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ABRAHAM LINCOLN action adopted amendment army authority believe bill called Carolina cause citizens command Congress Constitution Convention Court declared Department District Dred Dred Scott decision duty election emancipation enemy EXECUTIVE MANSION existing favor Federal force Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe friends Government Governor habeas corpus honor HORACE GREELEY House hundred Illinois insurrection issued Judge Douglas Kentucky labor Lecompton Constitution legislature letter liberty loyal March Maryland McClellan ment military Missouri nation officers opinion party passed peace persons political popular sovereignty position Potomac present President Lincoln President's principle proclamation purpose question re-enforcements rebel rebellion received regard reply Republican resolution Richmond secession Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent sentiment session Seward slavery slaves soldiers South South Carolina Southern speech Tennessee Territories thing thousand tion troops Union United Virginia vote Washington whole wrong
Popular passages
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...