Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 2Century Company, 1890 - Presidents |
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... means within your reach to restore the supremacy of the law , always endeavoring to carry out your present purpose to prevent the unnecessary effusion of blood . " 1 The Secretary had probably cast his eye upon the Platte County battle ...
... means within your reach to restore the supremacy of the law , always endeavoring to carry out your present purpose to prevent the unnecessary effusion of blood . " 1 The Secretary had probably cast his eye upon the Platte County battle ...
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... means to slavery in any United States Territory ; the immediate admission of Kansas as a free State , and the overthrow of the present national Administration . In response to the official call embodied in the Pittsburgh address , the ...
... means to slavery in any United States Territory ; the immediate admission of Kansas as a free State , and the overthrow of the present national Administration . In response to the official call embodied in the Pittsburgh address , the ...
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... mean that it is our aim to dissolve the Union , I for myself answer that it is untrue ; for those who act with me I answer that it is untrue . Have you heard us assert that as our aim ? Do you really believe that such is our aim ? Do ...
... mean that it is our aim to dissolve the Union , I for myself answer that it is untrue ; for those who act with me I answer that it is untrue . Have you heard us assert that as our aim ? Do you really believe that such is our aim ? Do ...
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... means of construing the Constitution in all its bearings , rather than to look behind that period into a traffic which is now declared to be piracy , and punished with death by Christian nations . I do not like to draw the sources of ...
... means of construing the Constitution in all its bearings , rather than to look behind that period into a traffic which is now declared to be piracy , and punished with death by Christian nations . I do not like to draw the sources of ...
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... mean to say all were equal in color , size , intellect , moral development , or social capacity . They defined with tolerable distinctness in what respects they did consider all men created equal -equal with " certain inalienable rights ...
... mean to say all were equal in color , size , intellect , moral development , or social capacity . They defined with tolerable distinctness in what respects they did consider all men created equal -equal with " certain inalienable rights ...
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Page 136 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 137 - 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 it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 183 - This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Page 150 - They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings.
Page 222 - ... free states ? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored...
Page 149 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Page 89 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 138 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work — who do care for the result. Two years ago, the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us.
Page 40 - That we recognize the right of the people of all the Territories, including Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly expressed will of a majority of actual residents, and whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States.
Page 138 - ... common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under .the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now ? — now — when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail — if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate or mistakes...