The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Including Inaugurals and ProclamationsDonated by Carl W. Schaefer. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 65
Page xvii
... answer to which , only five weeks later , was the firing upon and capture by the Southern forces in the field of Fort Sumter . Meanwhile , other United States forts and arsenals had been seized by the seceders , and a Con- federate ...
... answer to which , only five weeks later , was the firing upon and capture by the Southern forces in the field of Fort Sumter . Meanwhile , other United States forts and arsenals had been seized by the seceders , and a Con- federate ...
Page 2
... answer , If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us ; it cannot come from abroad . If de- struction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher . As a nation of freemen we must live through all time , or die by suicide ...
... answer , If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us ; it cannot come from abroad . If de- struction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher . As a nation of freemen we must live through all time , or die by suicide ...
Page 4
... answer , " It has much to do with it . " Its direct con- sequences are , comparatively speaking , but a small evil , and much of its danger consists in the proneness of our minds to regard its direct as its only consequences ...
... answer , " It has much to do with it . " Its direct con- sequences are , comparatively speaking , but a small evil , and much of its danger consists in the proneness of our minds to regard its direct as its only consequences ...
Page 6
... answer is simple . Let every American , every lover of liberty , every well - wisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country , and never to tolerate their ...
... answer is simple . Let every American , every lover of liberty , every well - wisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country , and never to tolerate their ...
Page 20
... answer the interrogatories I proposed , as before mentioned , or some other similar ones . Let him answer fully , fairly , and candidly . Let him answer with facts and not with arguments . Let him remember he sits where Washington sat ...
... answer the interrogatories I proposed , as before mentioned , or some other similar ones . Let him answer fully , fairly , and candidly . Let him answer with facts and not with arguments . Let him remember he sits where Washington sat ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abraham Lincoln amendment answer argument believe citizens claim Clay compromise of 1850 Congress Constitution course of ultimate decided Declaration Douglas's Dred Scott decision election emancipation Emancipation Proclamation exclude slavery existence fact fathers who framed favor Federal Fort Sumter friends give Henry Clay Illinois insist institution of slavery interrogatories Judge Douglas labor Lecompton Lecompton constitution legislation liberty Lincoln Louisiana mean ment Missouri Compromise Nebraska bill negro never opinion opposed party passed peace persons political popular sovereignty President principle prohibition proposition provision public mind purpose reason rebellion regard repeat Republican Republican party Senate sentiment slave slave-trade slavery agitation slavery question South speech Springfield stand stitution suppose Supreme Court tell Territories Texas thing tion true Trumbull ultimate extinction understand Union United voted whole wrong
Popular passages
Page 52 - 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 103 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 411 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page xvii - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 318 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you, in hot haste, to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time: but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Page 205 - 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...
Page 62 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. '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.
Page 362 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Page 411 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 94 - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.