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... of a raccoon or opossum , and buckskin breeches , which were invariably about twelve inches too short for him . When not working for his father , he was hired out as a farm - labourer to the neighbours . His cousin , John Hanks ,
... of a raccoon or opossum , and buckskin breeches , which were invariably about twelve inches too short for him . When not working for his father , he was hired out as a farm - labourer to the neighbours . His cousin , John Hanks ,
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Charles Godfrey Leland. to the neighbours . His cousin , John Hanks , says— " We worked barefoot , grubbed it , ploughed , mowed , and cradled together . " All who knew him at this time testify that Abraham hated hard - work , though he ...
Charles Godfrey Leland. to the neighbours . His cousin , John Hanks , says— " We worked barefoot , grubbed it , ploughed , mowed , and cradled together . " All who knew him at this time testify that Abraham hated hard - work , though he ...
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... John Baldwin , the village blacksmith , who was , even for a Western American wag , wonderfully clever at a jest , and possessed of an inexhaustible fund of stories . It was from John Baldwin that Lincoln derived a great number of the ...
... John Baldwin , the village blacksmith , who was , even for a Western American wag , wonderfully clever at a jest , and possessed of an inexhaustible fund of stories . It was from John Baldwin that Lincoln derived a great number of the ...
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... John Hanks , Abraham Lincoln , and John D. Johnston , his stepmother's son , to take a flat - boat to New Orleans . The wages offered were very high - fifty cents a day to each man.
... John Hanks , Abraham Lincoln , and John D. Johnston , his stepmother's son , to take a flat - boat to New Orleans . The wages offered were very high - fifty cents a day to each man.
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... John Hanks , apparently a most trustworthy and excellent man , declared that it was during this trip , while at New Orleans , Lincoln first saw negroes chained , maltreated , and whipped . It made a deep impression on his humane mind ...
... John Hanks , apparently a most trustworthy and excellent man , declared that it was during this trip , while at New Orleans , Lincoln first saw negroes chained , maltreated , and whipped . It made a deep impression on his humane mind ...
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Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the United States Charles Godfrey 1824-1903 Leland No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 119 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Page 120 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 90 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 200 - 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 129 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 231 - 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. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Page 118 - 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 67 - 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 119 - ... order and designate, as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States...
Page 68 - 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...