Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln, and War-time Memories: Including Many Heretofore Unpublished Incidents and Historical Facts Concerning His Ancestry, Boyhood, Family, Religion, Public Life, Trials and Triumphs, Illustrated with Many Reproductions from Original Paintings, Photographs, Etc, Volume 1 |
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... impression was a sense of his imposing height . His exact height according to the measurement by Car- penter , the artist , was six feet three and a half inches " in his stocking feet , " or six feet four and a half inches with his ...
... impression was a sense of his imposing height . His exact height according to the measurement by Car- penter , the artist , was six feet three and a half inches " in his stocking feet , " or six feet four and a half inches with his ...
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... impressions for he speaks of Lincoln " as the tallest and the 1 The Century , Vol . 20 , p . 932 . 2 Recollections of a Long Life , pp . 141-142 . grandest man in the procession . " The impression made LINCOLN'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE 45.
... impressions for he speaks of Lincoln " as the tallest and the 1 The Century , Vol . 20 , p . 932 . 2 Recollections of a Long Life , pp . 141-142 . grandest man in the procession . " The impression made LINCOLN'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE 45.
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... impression made by Mr. Lincoln's height upon the brilliant young journalist when he first met him is revealed as follows by Mr. James R. Gil- more of the New York Tribune : " Mr. Lincoln was exceedingly tall , and so gaunt that he ...
... impression made by Mr. Lincoln's height upon the brilliant young journalist when he first met him is revealed as follows by Mr. James R. Gil- more of the New York Tribune : " Mr. Lincoln was exceedingly tall , and so gaunt that he ...
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... impressions upon all who met him . It was not necessary that those who were in his presence should know of his great physical powers in order to feel the power of his personality . Horace Greeley , while criticising his ad- ministration ...
... impressions upon all who met him . It was not necessary that those who were in his presence should know of his great physical powers in order to feel the power of his personality . Horace Greeley , while criticising his ad- ministration ...
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... impression be- fore mentioned , Mr. Lincoln , during that evening interview , won the confidence , esteem and love ... impressions of Lincoln , as follows : " While court was in session Lincoln came straggling carelessly in . His face ...
... impression be- fore mentioned , Mr. Lincoln , during that evening interview , won the confidence , esteem and love ... impressions of Lincoln , as follows : " While court was in session Lincoln came straggling carelessly in . His face ...
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Page 191 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.0
Page 239 - I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by congress, or by decision of the supreme court...
Page 191 - I now reiterate these sentiments ; and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible, that the property, peace and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now incoming administration.
Page 192 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 216 - Heaven, not rending or wrecking anything. Will you not embrace it ? So much good has not been done by one effort in all past time, as in the Providence of God it is now your high privilege to do. May the vast future not have to lament that you have neglected it.
Page 215 - The resolution, in the language above quoted, was adopted by large majorities in both branches of Congress, and now stands an authentic, definite, and solemn proposal of the nation to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject matter.
Page 235 - 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 195 - Should you shoot a man, according to the proclamation, the Confederates would very certainly shoot our best men in their hands in retaliation; and so, man for man, indefinitely.
Page 188 - When they remind us of their constitutional rights, I acknowledge 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 be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one.
Page 237 - You dislike the Emancipation Proclamation, and perhaps would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional. I think differently. I think the Constitution invests its commander-in-chief with the law of war in time of war.