Lincoln: Passages from His Speeches and LettersCentury Company, 1901 - 204 pages |
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Page 47
... SUPPOSE it is true that the negro is inferior to the white in the gifts of nature ; is it not the exact reverse of justice that the white should for that rea- son take from the negro any part of the little which he has had given him ...
... SUPPOSE it is true that the negro is inferior to the white in the gifts of nature ; is it not the exact reverse of justice that the white should for that rea- son take from the negro any part of the little which he has had given him ...
Page 48
... suppose the Rev. Dr. Ross has a slave named Sambo , and the ques- tion is , " Is it the will of God that Sambo shall remain a slave , or be set free ? " The Al- mighty gives no audible answer to the question , and his revela- tion , the ...
... suppose the Rev. Dr. Ross has a slave named Sambo , and the ques- tion is , " Is it the will of God that Sambo shall remain a slave , or be set free ? " The Al- mighty gives no audible answer to the question , and his revela- tion , the ...
Page 50
... suppose that negroes were meant therein ; and he asks you : Is it possible to be- lieve that Mr. Jefferson , who penned the immortal paper , could have supposed himself applying the language of that instrument to the negro race , and ...
... suppose that negroes were meant therein ; and he asks you : Is it possible to be- lieve that Mr. Jefferson , who penned the immortal paper , could have supposed himself applying the language of that instrument to the negro race , and ...
Page 61
... suppose we have the constitu- tional right , we restrain our- selves in reference to the actual existence of the institution and the difficulties thrown about it . We also oppose it as an evil so far as it seeks to spread itself . We ...
... suppose we have the constitu- tional right , we restrain our- selves in reference to the actual existence of the institution and the difficulties thrown about it . We also oppose it as an evil so far as it seeks to spread itself . We ...
Page 84
... suppose they will not , -I would address a few words to the Southern people . I would say to them : You consider yourselves a reason- able and a just people ; and I consider that in the general qualities of reason and justice you are ...
... suppose they will not , -I would address a few words to the Southern people . I would say to them : You consider yourselves a reason- able and a just people ; and I consider that in the general qualities of reason and justice you are ...
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Page 161 - ... 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 198 - ... Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost,...
Page 126 - I, therefore, consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 134 - At the same time the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people...
Page xli - Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Page xl - Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Page 176 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...
Page 201 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Page 114 - It was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence...
Page 134 - I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the government.