Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Including the Lincoln-Douglas DebateMoffat, Yard, 1911 - 110 pages |
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... never a man among you is in favor of Federal prohibition of slavery in Federal Territories , according to the practice of " our fa- thers who framed the government under which we live . " Not one of all your various plans can show a ...
... never a man among you is in favor of Federal prohibition of slavery in Federal Territories , according to the practice of " our fa- thers who framed the government under which we live . " Not one of all your various plans can show a ...
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... never dealt fairly by us in relation to this affair . When it occurred , some important State elections were near at hand , and you were in evident glee with the belief that , by charging the blame upon us , you could get an advantage ...
... never dealt fairly by us in relation to this affair . When it occurred , some important State elections were near at hand , and you were in evident glee with the belief that , by charging the blame upon us , you could get an advantage ...
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... never occur on any American soil which is now free from slavery . John Brown's effort was peculiar . It was not a slave insurrection . It was an attempt by white men to get up a revolt among slaves , in which the slaves refused to ...
... never occur on any American soil which is now free from slavery . John Brown's effort was peculiar . It was not a slave insurrection . It was an attempt by white men to get up a revolt among slaves , in which the slaves refused to ...
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... never had anything to do with invasions and insurrections ; and yet this total abstaining does not exempt us from the charge and the denun- ciation . The question recurs , What will satisfy them ? Simply this : we must not only let them ...
... never had anything to do with invasions and insurrections ; and yet this total abstaining does not exempt us from the charge and the denun- ciation . The question recurs , What will satisfy them ? Simply this : we must not only let them ...
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... never detected a man of us in any attempt to disturb them . These natural and apparently adequate means all failing , what will convince them ? This , and this only cease to call slavery wrong , and join them in calling it right . And ...
... never detected a man of us in any attempt to disturb them . These natural and apparently adequate means all failing , what will convince them ? This , and this only cease to call slavery wrong , and join them in calling it right . And ...
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Page 102 - 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 55 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 51 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 58 - 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, 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 proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate, as the States...
Page 24 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Page 88 - 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.
Page 73 - 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. 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 43 - No foresight can anticipate, nor any document of reasonable length contain, express provisions for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor be surrendered by national or by State authority? The Constitution does not expressly say.
Page 44 - ... be controlled by such a minority. For instance, why not any portion of a new confederacy, a year or two hence, arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it?
Page 27 - Now, as we have already said in an earlier part of this opinion, upon a different point, the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.