Abraham Lincoln's Pen and Voice: Being a Complete Compilation of His Letters, Civil, Politival, and Military, Also His Public Addresses, Messages to Congress, Inaugurals and Others, as Well as Proclamations Upon Various Public Concerns ... |
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... received . The latter is herewith returned according to your re- quest . It contains one of the many assurances I re- ceive from the South , that in no probable event will there be any very formidable effort to break up the Union . The ...
... received . The latter is herewith returned according to your re- quest . It contains one of the many assurances I re- ceive from the South , that in no probable event will there be any very formidable effort to break up the Union . The ...
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... received this morning . Douglas is managing the Bell ele- ment with great adroitness . He had his men in Kentucky to vote for the Bell candidate , producing a result which has badly alarmed and damaged Breck- enridge , and at the same ...
... received this morning . Douglas is managing the Bell ele- ment with great adroitness . He had his men in Kentucky to vote for the Bell candidate , producing a result which has badly alarmed and damaged Breck- enridge , and at the same ...
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... received two days ago . Should the convention of governors of which you speak seem desirous to know my views on the present aspect of things , tell them you judge from my speeches that I will be inflexible on the ter - ` ritorial ...
... received two days ago . Should the convention of governors of which you speak seem desirous to know my views on the present aspect of things , tell them you judge from my speeches that I will be inflexible on the ter - ` ritorial ...
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... received nothing but kindness at your hands . Here I have lived from my youth , until now I am an old man , Here the most sacred ties of earth were assumed . Here all my children were born ; and here one of them lies buried . To you ...
... received nothing but kindness at your hands . Here I have lived from my youth , until now I am an old man , Here the most sacred ties of earth were assumed . Here all my children were born ; and here one of them lies buried . To you ...
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... received from some a degree of credit for having kept silence , and from others some deprecia- tion . I still think that I was right . In the varying and repeatedly shifting scenes of the present , and without a precedent which could ...
... received from some a degree of credit for having kept silence , and from others some deprecia- tion . I still think that I was right . In the varying and repeatedly shifting scenes of the present , and without a precedent which could ...
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Page 390 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of 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.
Page 191 - 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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 47 - Resolved, that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 407 - 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 235 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 327 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
Page 328 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
Page 408 - 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 239 - Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Page 58 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or. on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.