Abraham Lincoln and Andrew JohnsonF.A. Stokes & Brother, 1888 - 357 pages |
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... Politics , and Parties — Alderman and Mayor- Member of the State Legislature - State Senator- Member of Congress ... Political Prisoner - The Solitary United States Senator from the Confederacy - Military Govern- or of Tennessee ...
... Politics , and Parties — Alderman and Mayor- Member of the State Legislature - State Senator- Member of Congress ... Political Prisoner - The Solitary United States Senator from the Confederacy - Military Govern- or of Tennessee ...
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... political campaign title of the great Illinois Rail Splitter . With the completion of that rail fence , the rela- tions of Abraham Lincoln and his father's family , other than those of affection , were ended . He went out to fight the ...
... political campaign title of the great Illinois Rail Splitter . With the completion of that rail fence , the rela- tions of Abraham Lincoln and his father's family , other than those of affection , were ended . He went out to fight the ...
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... political speech , the subject being the im- provement of the Sangamon River for purposes of navigation . Hanks declared that Lincoln could beat the orator , and turned down an empty box as a platform . From this stand the response was ...
... political speech , the subject being the im- provement of the Sangamon River for purposes of navigation . Hanks declared that Lincoln could beat the orator , and turned down an empty box as a platform . From this stand the response was ...
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... political gather- ing could illustrate his arguments with so many or such keenly - pointed stories . He was just the man for that constituency , and there was only one thing against him . He was beaten by the simple fact that only a ...
... political gather- ing could illustrate his arguments with so many or such keenly - pointed stories . He was just the man for that constituency , and there was only one thing against him . He was beaten by the simple fact that only a ...
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... political campaign , and was looking around for some means of earning the necessary money to pay for food and shelter there or elsewhere . There is a tradition that he even spoke of the fact that so strong a man as he would perhaps do ...
... political campaign , and was looking around for some means of earning the necessary money to pay for food and shelter there or elsewhere . There is a tradition that he even spoke of the fact that so strong a man as he would perhaps do ...
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Page 280 - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States ; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 145 - 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 262 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.
Page 145 - 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...
Page 262 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman'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 262 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war, while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
Page 262 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of 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 262 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years...
Page 257 - Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with am authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States...
Page 182 - I am directed by the President of the United States to notify you to expect an attempt will be made to supply Fort Sumter with provisions only ; and that, if such attempt be not resisted, no effort to throw in men, arms, or ammunition will be made without further notice, or in case of an attack upon the fort.