Abraham Lincoln: The Nation's Leader in the Great Struggle Through which was Maintained the Existence of the United StatesG. P. Putnam's sons, 1888 - 467 pages |
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... Union as a INDI State , and the tide of immigration setting into the new State was full and far - spreading . But neigh- bors were not uncomfortably near the Lincolns in their new home . Picking up their property left in charge of one ...
... Union as a INDI State , and the tide of immigration setting into the new State was full and far - spreading . But neigh- bors were not uncomfortably near the Lincolns in their new home . Picking up their property left in charge of one ...
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... Union , a measure to which Lincoln , and other Whigs , was bitterly opposed . Texas had first seceded from Mexico , and , after a sharp war , had gained something that was akin to independence . At least , the war was temporarily ...
... Union , a measure to which Lincoln , and other Whigs , was bitterly opposed . Texas had first seceded from Mexico , and , after a sharp war , had gained something that was akin to independence . At least , the war was temporarily ...
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... Union . This suspicion was certainty when the Southern States insisted that Texas should be brought into the Federal Union , without delay . This was finally brought about , and Mexico , which had agreed to a cessation of hostilities ...
... Union . This suspicion was certainty when the Southern States insisted that Texas should be brought into the Federal Union , without delay . This was finally brought about , and Mexico , which had agreed to a cessation of hostilities ...
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... Union to be dissolved . I do not expect the house to fall . But I do expect it will cease to be divided . It will become all one thing , or all the other . Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it , and place ...
... Union to be dissolved . I do not expect the house to fall . But I do expect it will cease to be divided . It will become all one thing , or all the other . Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it , and place ...
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... Union . It was a wild region , with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods . There I grew up . There were some schools so - called , but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin , ' writin ' , and ...
... Union . It was a wild region , with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods . There I grew up . There were some schools so - called , but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin , ' writin ' , and ...
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Page 161 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 409 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Page 314 - Navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Page 282 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
Page 154 - That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy, and slavery.
Page 411 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said that "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 240 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 311 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : SEC.
Page 189 - It professed to ignore the question of slavery, and declared that it would recognize no political principle other than " the Constitution of the Country, the Union of the States, and the enforcement of the Laws.
Page 314 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...