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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... slavery - Is a candidate for Presidential Elector - Mr . Lincoln is elected to Congress His votes and speeches during his Congressional term : .. Becomes a delegate to the National Convention of 1848- He is nominated for United States ...
... slavery - Is a candidate for Presidential Elector - Mr . Lincoln is elected to Congress His votes and speeches during his Congressional term : .. Becomes a delegate to the National Convention of 1848- He is nominated for United States ...
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... Slavery abol- ished in the District of Columbia .. Re - opening of some of the Southern Ports - Repudiates an emancipation order of Major - General Hunter ... The President's conference with the Loyal Governors - His interview with the ...
... Slavery abol- ished in the District of Columbia .. Re - opening of some of the Southern Ports - Repudiates an emancipation order of Major - General Hunter ... The President's conference with the Loyal Governors - His interview with the ...
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... slavery . He witnessed the evils of the " peculiar institution , " and longed to be free from the disagreeable effects of a condi- tion of society which made a poor white man even more degraded than the unfortunate negro , whose ...
... slavery . He witnessed the evils of the " peculiar institution , " and longed to be free from the disagreeable effects of a condi- tion of society which made a poor white man even more degraded than the unfortunate negro , whose ...
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... who lived a few miles distant , and returning to Kentucky on foot , made preparations to remove his family . In a few days the party bade farewell to their old home and slavery , Mrs. Lincoln and 24 LIFE AND SERVICES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... who lived a few miles distant , and returning to Kentucky on foot , made preparations to remove his family . In a few days the party bade farewell to their old home and slavery , Mrs. Lincoln and 24 LIFE AND SERVICES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... slavery , Mrs. Lincoln and her daughter riding one horse , Abe another , and the father a third . After a seven days ' journey through an uninhab- ited country , their resting - place at night being a blanket spread upon the ground ...
... slavery , Mrs. Lincoln and her daughter riding one horse , Abe another , and the father a third . After a seven days ' journey through an uninhab- ited country , their resting - place at night being a blanket spread upon the ground ...
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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.