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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... Washington in Lincoln's Time , " " History of the United States , " etc. National Tribune Washington , D. C. 1 TO THE MEMORY OF 66 TAD " PREFACE TO NEW Centennial Edition CHAPTER.
... Washington in Lincoln's Time , " " History of the United States , " etc. National Tribune Washington , D. C. 1 TO THE MEMORY OF 66 TAD " PREFACE TO NEW Centennial Edition CHAPTER.
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... Washington , and saw him almost daily until his tragical death . This preliminary egotism may be pardoned by way of explanation of the fact that many things relating to his early life , herein set down , were derived from his own lips ...
... Washington , and saw him almost daily until his tragical death . This preliminary egotism may be pardoned by way of explanation of the fact that many things relating to his early life , herein set down , were derived from his own lips ...
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... WASHINGTON Lincoln's Farewell to his Fellow - Townsmen ― Prayers for the President - Elect - Rush of the People to See Him - A Series of Remarkable Speeches Why the President Would Wear a Beard - Rumors of Assassination The Night ...
... WASHINGTON Lincoln's Farewell to his Fellow - Townsmen ― Prayers for the President - Elect - Rush of the People to See Him - A Series of Remarkable Speeches Why the President Would Wear a Beard - Rumors of Assassination The Night ...
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... Washington was another book early found among the settlers and devoured with a book - hunger most pathetic . Hearing of an- other life of Washington , written by Weems , young Lincoln went in pursuit of it and joyfully carried it home ...
... Washington was another book early found among the settlers and devoured with a book - hunger most pathetic . Hearing of an- other life of Washington , written by Weems , young Lincoln went in pursuit of it and joyfully carried it home ...
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... Washington , and , years after , standing near the battle - ground of Trenton , and recalling the pages of the book hidden in the crevices of the log cabin in the Indiana wilderness , he said : " I remember all the accounts there given ...
... Washington , and , years after , standing near the battle - ground of Trenton , and recalling the pages of the book hidden in the crevices of the log cabin in the Indiana wilderness , he said : " I remember all the accounts there given ...
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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...