Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public ServicesB. B. Russell, 1866 - 216 pages |
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... soon floating down the stream , on his way to Indiana to select a new home . His journey down the Rolling Fork and into the Ohio River was successfully accomplished ; but , soon afterwards , his boat was unfortunately upset , and its ...
... soon floating down the stream , on his way to Indiana to select a new home . His journey down the Rolling Fork and into the Ohio River was successfully accomplished ; but , soon afterwards , his boat was unfortunately upset , and its ...
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... soon after presented to him , he gained the aptness of illustration which has made " the President's last anecdote " a byword ; and from the best of books and Catechism he gathered those ripe sheaves of wisdom which fitted him for his ...
... soon after presented to him , he gained the aptness of illustration which has made " the President's last anecdote " a byword ; and from the best of books and Catechism he gathered those ripe sheaves of wisdom which fitted him for his ...
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... soon found himself busied in writing letters for his neighbors . President Lincoln never forgot his mother . It was very long before the loneliness and desolation of that sad bereavement passed away . Her lessons of divinest wisdom he ...
... soon found himself busied in writing letters for his neighbors . President Lincoln never forgot his mother . It was very long before the loneliness and desolation of that sad bereavement passed away . Her lessons of divinest wisdom he ...
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... soon raised there ; and such was the confidence of his fellow - townsmen and comrades- in - arms , that they unanimously chose him to be their captain , —an office which he reluctantly accepted , having a modest doubt of his own ability ...
... soon raised there ; and such was the confidence of his fellow - townsmen and comrades- in - arms , that they unanimously chose him to be their captain , —an office which he reluctantly accepted , having a modest doubt of his own ability ...
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... soon made his mark : an attempt of a gang of the bullies of the place to give him a beating resulted in the defeat of their champion by the tall sinewy stranger , who at once became a favorite with . " The Pioneer Boy , " p . 252 ...
... soon made his mark : an attempt of a gang of the bullies of the place to give him a beating resulted in the defeat of their champion by the tall sinewy stranger , who at once became a favorite with . " The Pioneer Boy , " p . 252 ...
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Page 205 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28 For the kingdom is the LORD'S : and he is the governor among the nations.
Page 57 - Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren : and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.
Page 120 - 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 192 - 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 128 - 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...
Page 141 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Page 121 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the National authority.
Page 138 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page 120 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 190 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses...