Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, by Distinguished Men of His TimeAllen Thorndike Rice |
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... Seward telegraphed me to come to Washington . It had happened before that I had been summoned in the same way . I took it as a matter of course and caught the first train South . I got to Washington , and , after break- fast , went ...
... Seward telegraphed me to come to Washington . It had happened before that I had been summoned in the same way . I took it as a matter of course and caught the first train South . I got to Washington , and , after break- fast , went ...
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... Seward , who didn't believe , even then , that the war was go- ing to be a long one . " Mr. Lincoln did not seem to heed the remark , but he said : " Governor Seymour could do more for our cause than any other man living . He has been ...
... Seward , who didn't believe , even then , that the war was go- ing to be a long one . " Mr. Lincoln did not seem to heed the remark , but he said : " Governor Seymour could do more for our cause than any other man living . He has been ...
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... any rate I didn't , and it's all over now . " Shortly afterward , I mentioned these facts to Frederick W. Seward . " Yes , " he said , " I have often heard Mr. Weed to say , tell the story . The fact is INTRODUCTION . xxxvii.
... any rate I didn't , and it's all over now . " Shortly afterward , I mentioned these facts to Frederick W. Seward . " Yes , " he said , " I have often heard Mr. Weed to say , tell the story . The fact is INTRODUCTION . xxxvii.
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... Seward and Stan- ton have each advocates claiming unquestioned pre- eminence for one or the other of these great states- men . Some , with greater zeal and fidelity than knowledge or justice , have sought to exalt the great Secretary of ...
... Seward and Stan- ton have each advocates claiming unquestioned pre- eminence for one or the other of these great states- men . Some , with greater zeal and fidelity than knowledge or justice , have sought to exalt the great Secretary of ...
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... Seward , perhaps the ablest American diplomatist of the century , found also in the man of the people a master who ... Seward's first full instructions after the outbreak of the Rebellion . It was corrected by the Presi- dent , as will ...
... Seward , perhaps the ablest American diplomatist of the century , found also in the man of the people a master who ... Seward's first full instructions after the outbreak of the Rebellion . It was corrected by the Presi- dent , as will ...
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Page 89 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 118 - Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes.
Page 541 - That the maintenance Inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 80 - 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 277 - 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 79 - 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 409 - 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 battle-field 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.
Page 131 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.
Page 120 - 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 the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 529 - ... 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...