Politics and Politicians: A Succinct History of the Politics of Illinois from 1856 to 1884, with Anecdotes and Incidents, and Appendix from 1809-1856 |
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... issued a proclamation declaring the admission of Missouri into the Union , in complete accord- ance with law . In his last message to Congress , President Polk had recommended the extension of the line 36 ° 30 ' north latitude to the ...
... issued a proclamation declaring the admission of Missouri into the Union , in complete accord- ance with law . In his last message to Congress , President Polk had recommended the extension of the line 36 ° 30 ' north latitude to the ...
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... issued his proclamation calling for 75,000 soldiers to put down the insurrection , and repossess and preserve the property of the government . Gov. Yates convened the General Assembly on the 23d of April , for the purpose of passing ...
... issued his proclamation calling for 75,000 soldiers to put down the insurrection , and repossess and preserve the property of the government . Gov. Yates convened the General Assembly on the 23d of April , for the purpose of passing ...
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... issued his proclamation calling for 75,000 troops , Senator Douglas called on him and warmly assured him of his purpose to stand by him in the hour of the country's peril . At the request of Mr. Lincoln he dictated this dispatch , which ...
... issued his proclamation calling for 75,000 troops , Senator Douglas called on him and warmly assured him of his purpose to stand by him in the hour of the country's peril . At the request of Mr. Lincoln he dictated this dispatch , which ...
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... issued on which to raise the money , to bear ten per cent . interest , but Gov. Yates gave no heed to this act , or any other of a like nature , believing , as he did , that the duty of the con- vention was confined simply to the ...
... issued on which to raise the money , to bear ten per cent . interest , but Gov. Yates gave no heed to this act , or any other of a like nature , believing , as he did , that the duty of the con- vention was confined simply to the ...
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... issued a fiery address to the people of the State , setting forth their grievances , and the question as to the legality of the action of the Governor was presented to the Supreme Court , in various forms , by eminent legal talent , yet ...
... issued a fiery address to the people of the State , setting forth their grievances , and the question as to the legality of the action of the Governor was presented to the Supreme Court , in various forms , by eminent legal talent , yet ...
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Page 183 - All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation.
Page 183 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Page 130 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 183 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Page 12 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 131 - I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.' I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 184 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated ^that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 180 - 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 82 - 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 it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 178 - 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.