Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 8F. D. Tandy Company, 1905 - Illinois |
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... dear Sir : I was painfully surprised by your letter , handed me by the Postmaster - Gen- eral , because the Secretary of War , who saw you after I did , had assured me that you and accompanying friends were fully satisfied with what he ...
... dear Sir : I was painfully surprised by your letter , handed me by the Postmaster - Gen- eral , because the Secretary of War , who saw you after I did , had assured me that you and accompanying friends were fully satisfied with what he ...
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... dear Sir : I have determined to appoint you collector . I now have a very special re- quest to make of you , which is , that you will make no war upon Mr. Washburne , who is also my friend , and of longer standing than yourself . I will ...
... dear Sir : I have determined to appoint you collector . I now have a very special re- quest to make of you , which is , that you will make no war upon Mr. Washburne , who is also my friend , and of longer standing than yourself . I will ...
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... Dear Sir : A bundle of letters , including one from yourself , was early last week handed me by General Halleck , as I understood at your re- quest . I sincerely sympathize with you in the death of your brave and noble son . In regard ...
... Dear Sir : A bundle of letters , including one from yourself , was early last week handed me by General Halleck , as I understood at your re- quest . I sincerely sympathize with you in the death of your brave and noble son . In regard ...
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... Dear Sir : Your kind letter of the 25th is just received . It is known to some that while I hope something from the proclamation , my expectations are not as sanguine as are those of ' Hamlin was originally a Democrat but became an ...
... Dear Sir : Your kind letter of the 25th is just received . It is known to some that while I hope something from the proclamation , my expectations are not as sanguine as are those of ' Hamlin was originally a Democrat but became an ...
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... dear Sir : Your note , informing me that you will leave for North Carolina soon , is re- ceived . Your conduct as military governor of that State , as reported to me by General Burn- side , and as I have heard it personally from ...
... dear Sir : Your note , informing me that you will leave for North Carolina soon , is re- ceived . Your conduct as military governor of that State , as reported to me by General Burn- side , and as I have heard it personally from ...
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Page 156 - Portsmouth and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid i do order 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...
Page 155 - States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly...
Page 37 - States, and the people thereof, in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed. That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all...
Page 39 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : SEC.
Page 16 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 162 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 116 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution...
Page 39 - States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army ; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the government of the United States...
Page 163 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: "Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St.
Page 15 - If there be in it any statements or assumptions of fact which I may know to be erroneous, I do not now and here controvert them. If there be any inferences •which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I