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In two weeks they reached Decatur , Macon county , Illinois , near the centre of that State , and in another day were at the tract of land ( ten acres ) on the north side of the Sangamon river , and about teu miles west of Decatur .
In two weeks they reached Decatur , Macon county , Illinois , near the centre of that State , and in another day were at the tract of land ( ten acres ) on the north side of the Sangamon river , and about teu miles west of Decatur .
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Meet us , then , on the question of whether our principle , put in practice , would wrong your section ; and so meet it as if it were possible that something may be said on our side . Do you accept the challenge ? No ?
Meet us , then , on the question of whether our principle , put in practice , would wrong your section ; and so meet it as if it were possible that something may be said on our side . Do you accept the challenge ? No ?
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I believe the devotion to the Constitution is equally great on both sides of the river . It is only the different understanding of that instru . ment that causes difficulties . The only dispute is · What are their rights ?
I believe the devotion to the Constitution is equally great on both sides of the river . It is only the different understanding of that instru . ment that causes difficulties . The only dispute is · What are their rights ?
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If the great American people will only keep their temper on both sides of the line , the trouble will come to an end , and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like ...
If the great American people will only keep their temper on both sides of the line , the trouble will come to an end , and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like ...
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There is no alternative for continuing the government but acquiescence on the one side or the other . If a minority in such a case will secede rather than acquiesce , they make a precedent which in turn will ruin and divide them , for å ...
There is no alternative for continuing the government but acquiescence on the one side or the other . If a minority in such a case will secede rather than acquiesce , they make a precedent which in turn will ruin and divide them , for å ...
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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.
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| Title | 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. ... Volume 1 of Lives of presidents and generals |
| Editor | David Brainerd Williamson |
| Contributors | Peterson, T.B., & Brothers, Philadelphia, pub, T.B. Peterson & Brothers (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| Publisher | T.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1865 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 285 pages |
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