The Life of Abraham LincolnT. R. Dawley, 1864 - 100 pages |
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... character had been adopted by the majority of the Illin ois legislature . These of course would have affixed the character of theoretical abolitionists to those who voted against them . In order to extricate himself from a posi tion ...
... character had been adopted by the majority of the Illin ois legislature . These of course would have affixed the character of theoretical abolitionists to those who voted against them . In order to extricate himself from a posi tion ...
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... character which excited no uneasiness on the part of the prosecutor - merely , in most cases , requiring the main witness to be definite as to time and place . When the evidence of the proscecution was ended , Lincoln intro- duced a few ...
... character which excited no uneasiness on the part of the prosecutor - merely , in most cases , requiring the main witness to be definite as to time and place . When the evidence of the proscecution was ended , Lincoln intro- duced a few ...
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... character of the man . Argument , ridicule and illustrative anecdotes were brought into requisition , with great ability and un- sparing boldness , in setting the real issues of the canvas · political and personal , in what he deemed a ...
... character of the man . Argument , ridicule and illustrative anecdotes were brought into requisition , with great ability and un- sparing boldness , in setting the real issues of the canvas · political and personal , in what he deemed a ...
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... character - acute , discerning , good humored , sarcastic , s'n . ceer and industrious . After the session closed , Mr. Lincoln made a visit to New England , where he delivered some effective campaign speeches , which were ...
... character - acute , discerning , good humored , sarcastic , s'n . ceer and industrious . After the session closed , Mr. Lincoln made a visit to New England , where he delivered some effective campaign speeches , which were ...
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... character has become more and more deeply fixed in the popular heart . be During the following year he again gave himself up to his profession ; but in the fall , when Douglas visited Ohio , and endeavored to sway the Democracy of that ...
... character has become more and more deeply fixed in the popular heart . be During the following year he again gave himself up to his profession ; but in the fall , when Douglas visited Ohio , and endeavored to sway the Democracy of that ...
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Page 84 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 85 - We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth.
Page 36 - They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy; but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.
Page 84 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Page 63 - We mean to treat you, as near as we possibly can, as Washington, Jefferson, and Madison treated you. We mean to leave you alone, and in no way to interfere with your institutions; to abide by all and every compromise of the Constitution...
Page 48 - ... ../Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.
Page 93 - That we approve the position taken by the government, that the people of the United States can never regard with indifference the attempt of any European power to overthrow by force, or to supplant by fraud, the institutions of any republican government on the western continent...
Page 91 - ... flag; that the nation owes to them some permanent recognition of their patriotism and their valor, and ample and permanent provision for those of their survivors who have received disabling and honorable wounds in the service of the country: and that the memories of those who have fallen in its defense shall be held in grateful and everlasting remembrance.
Page 91 - ... we are in favor, furthermore, of such an amendment to the Constitution, to be made by the people in conformity with its provisions, as shall terminate and forever prohibit the existence of slavery within the limits or the jurisdiction of the United States.
Page 84 - I do not forget the gravity which should characterize a paper addressed to the Congress of the nation by the Chief Magistrate of the nation. Nor do I forget that some of you are my seniors, nor that many of you have more experience than I, in the conduct of public affairs. Yet I trust that in view of the great responsibility resting upon me, you will perceive no want of respect yourselves, in any undue earnestness I may seem to display.