The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Including Inaugurals and ProclamationsDonated by Carl W. Schaefer. |
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... of reaching the core of a subject and of imparting to his audiences his views and conclusions thereon with justice , force , and lucidity . The present Collection , it need i 773200 hardly be said , is not an attempt to vie.
... of reaching the core of a subject and of imparting to his audiences his views and conclusions thereon with justice , force , and lucidity . The present Collection , it need i 773200 hardly be said , is not an attempt to vie.
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... present writer has elsewhere said , " that showed in a remarkable manner what his powers were in the field of national as well as of local politics , and how effectively he had mastered the constitutional and other questions of the time ...
... present writer has elsewhere said , " that showed in a remarkable manner what his powers were in the field of national as well as of local politics , and how effectively he had mastered the constitutional and other questions of the time ...
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... present volume here to relate ; nor is there need obviously of this , with the many histories of the war and biographies of its several chief commanders available to the reader . Our purpose rather is to follow , in as brief compass as ...
... present volume here to relate ; nor is there need obviously of this , with the many histories of the war and biographies of its several chief commanders available to the reader . Our purpose rather is to follow , in as brief compass as ...
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... present the facts from which he concluded the soil was ours on which the first blood of the war was shed ... presents it , is in these words : " But there are those who , conceding all this to be true , assume the ground that the true ...
... present the facts from which he concluded the soil was ours on which the first blood of the war was shed ... presents it , is in these words : " But there are those who , conceding all this to be true , assume the ground that the true ...
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... present boundary between us and Mexico ? How , Mr. Chair- man , the line that once divided your land from mine can still be the boundary between us after I have sold my land to you is to me beyond all comprehension . And how any man ...
... present boundary between us and Mexico ? How , Mr. Chair- man , the line that once divided your land from mine can still be the boundary between us after I have sold my land to you is to me beyond all comprehension . And how any man ...
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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.