The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Including Inaugurals and ProclamationsDonated by Carl W. Schaefer. |
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... ment that offers them no protection , and are not much averse to a change in which they imagine they have nothing to lose . Thus , then , by the operation of this mobocratic spirit which all must admit is now abroad in the land , the ...
... ment that offers them no protection , and are not much averse to a change in which they imagine they have nothing to lose . Thus , then , by the operation of this mobocratic spirit which all must admit is now abroad in the land , the ...
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... ment of the justice and wisdom of his conduct ; besides that singularly candid paragraph in his late message in which he tells us that Congress with great una- nimity had declared that " by the act of the Republic of Mexico , a state of ...
... ment of the justice and wisdom of his conduct ; besides that singularly candid paragraph in his late message in which he tells us that Congress with great una- nimity had declared that " by the act of the Republic of Mexico , a state of ...
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... ment , revoking all others - makes no such claim . But suppose she had always claimed it . Has not Mexico always claimed the contrary ? So that there is but claim against claim , leaving nothing proved until we get back of the claims ...
... ment , revoking all others - makes no such claim . But suppose she had always claimed it . Has not Mexico always claimed the contrary ? So that there is but claim against claim , leaving nothing proved until we get back of the claims ...
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... ment . Such minority was precisely the case of the Tories of our own revolution . It is a quality of revo lutions not to go by old lines or old laws ; but to break up both , and make new ones . As to the country now in question , we ...
... ment . Such minority was precisely the case of the Tories of our own revolution . It is a quality of revo lutions not to go by old lines or old laws ; but to break up both , and make new ones . As to the country now in question , we ...
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... ment was made for the white people and not for the negroes . Why , in point of mere fact , I think so too . But in this remark of the judge there is a significance which I think is the key to the great mistake ( if there is any such ...
... ment was made for the white people and not for the negroes . Why , in point of mere fact , I think so too . But in this remark of the judge there is a significance which I think is the key to the great mistake ( if there is any such ...
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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.