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... South . They were chained six and six together . A small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each , and this fastened to the main chain by a shorter one , at a convenient distance from the others , so that the negroes were strung ...
... South . They were chained six and six together . A small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each , and this fastened to the main chain by a shorter one , at a convenient distance from the others , so that the negroes were strung ...
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... South . Doubtless there are individuals on both sides who would not hold slaves under any circumstances , and others who would gladly introduce slavery anew if it were out of existence . We know that some Southern men do free their ...
... South . Doubtless there are individuals on both sides who would not hold slaves under any circumstances , and others who would gladly introduce slavery anew if it were out of existence . We know that some Southern men do free their ...
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... South . When they remind us of their constitutional rights , I ac- knowledge them - not grudgingly , but fully and fairly ; and I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives which should not in its stringency ...
... South . When they remind us of their constitutional rights , I ac- knowledge them - not grudgingly , but fully and fairly ; and I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives which should not in its stringency ...
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Abraham Lincoln. than in the free . The great majority South , as well as North , have human sympathies , of which they can no more divest themselves than they can of their sensibility to physi- cal pain . These sympathies in the bosoms ...
Abraham Lincoln. than in the free . The great majority South , as well as North , have human sympathies , of which they can no more divest themselves than they can of their sensibility to physi- cal pain . These sympathies in the bosoms ...
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... South flushed with triumph and tempted to excess ; the North , betrayed as they believe , brooding on wrong and burning for revenge . One side will provoke , the other re- sent . The one will taunt , the other defy ; one aggresses , the ...
... South flushed with triumph and tempted to excess ; the North , betrayed as they believe , brooding on wrong and burning for revenge . One side will provoke , the other re- sent . The one will taunt , the other defy ; one aggresses , the ...
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Page 183 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government...
Page 121 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people...
Page 288 - 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 273 - 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 254 - A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. "One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
Page 114 - 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 134 - It is the eternal struggle between these two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, ' You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Page 105 - 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 187 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 298 - There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age, I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three, but that was all.