Illustrated Life, Services, Martyrdom, and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln ...: With a Portrait of President Lincoln, and Other Illustrative Engravings of the Scene of the Assassination, Etc. ...David Brainerd Williamson |
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... called for . The President's Dedicatory Address at the Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg .... ....... He issues another Thanksgiving Proclamation - His Annual Message of December , 1863 - Full pardon offered to the ...
... called for . The President's Dedicatory Address at the Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg .... ....... He issues another Thanksgiving Proclamation - His Annual Message of December , 1863 - Full pardon offered to the ...
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... called at home and by his companions , was seven years of age , his name was entered for the first time on the roll of an edu- cational institution — an academy which had but little pre- tension in outward appearance , and the presiding ...
... called at home and by his companions , was seven years of age , his name was entered for the first time on the roll of an edu- cational institution — an academy which had but little pre- tension in outward appearance , and the presiding ...
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... called , won the respect and confidence of all with whom he had business dealings , while socially , he was much ... called into active service . A new levy was then called for , and he re - enlisted as a private , and at the end of ...
... called , won the respect and confidence of all with whom he had business dealings , while socially , he was much ... called into active service . A new levy was then called for , and he re - enlisted as a private , and at the end of ...
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... called for , and arising from his seat , modestly ac- knowledged that he had split rails some thirty years pre- vious in Macon county , and he was informed that those before him were a small portion of the product of his labor with the ...
... called for , and arising from his seat , modestly ac- knowledged that he had split rails some thirty years pre- vious in Macon county , and he was informed that those before him were a small portion of the product of his labor with the ...
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... called our fathers who framed that part of the present Government . It is almost exactly true to say they framed it , and it is altogether true to say they fairly represented the opinion and sentiment of the whole nation at that time ...
... called our fathers who framed that part of the present Government . It is almost exactly true to say they framed it , and it is altogether true to say they fairly represented the opinion and sentiment of the whole nation at that time ...
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Page 97 - Whereas the laws of the United States have been for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 221 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 135 - ... 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. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence ; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully...
Page 91 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 134 - States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 91 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 134 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 93 - Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left.
Page 94 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 107 - 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.