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... ELECTED PRESIDENT .. 455 CHAPTER XXV . THE END OF SLAVERY . 472 CHAPTER XXVI . SECOND PRESIDENTIAL TERM 487 CHAPTER XXVII . IN RICHMOND ... 496 CHAPTER XXVIII . THE CLOSING SCENE ... .. 511 CHAPTER XXIX . APOTHROSIS .. 527 ILLUSTRATIONS ...
... ELECTED PRESIDENT .. 455 CHAPTER XXV . THE END OF SLAVERY . 472 CHAPTER XXVI . SECOND PRESIDENTIAL TERM 487 CHAPTER XXVII . IN RICHMOND ... 496 CHAPTER XXVIII . THE CLOSING SCENE ... .. 511 CHAPTER XXIX . APOTHROSIS .. 527 ILLUSTRATIONS ...
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... elected him captain . He knew nothing of military tactics , and his soldiers were equally ignorant . With rifle , powder - horn , knap- sack , and canteen the march was begun to Yellow Bank , on the Missis- sippi River . The company is ...
... elected him captain . He knew nothing of military tactics , and his soldiers were equally ignorant . With rifle , powder - horn , knap- sack , and canteen the march was begun to Yellow Bank , on the Missis- sippi River . The company is ...
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... elected I shall be thankful ; if not , it will be all the same . " ( ' ) Another meeting was held at Springfield , where he made a longer speech . One who was present has described his appearance on that occasion : " He was tall , gawky ...
... elected I shall be thankful ; if not , it will be all the same . " ( ' ) Another meeting was held at Springfield , where he made a longer speech . One who was present has described his appearance on that occasion : " He was tall , gawky ...
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... elected , only one had more votes than he . When the time came for the Legislature to assemble a friend loaned him money enough to buy a new suit of clothes , and he made his way to Vandalia . When he entered the building in which the ...
... elected , only one had more votes than he . When the time came for the Legislature to assemble a friend loaned him money enough to buy a new suit of clothes , and he made his way to Vandalia . When he entered the building in which the ...
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... elect him instead . He was successful . The session lasted but a few weeks , and Abraham Lincoln went back to his surveying . He was not the same man he had been . The grasp of his band , when he met Jack Armstrong , was as hearty as ...
... elect him instead . He was successful . The session lasted but a few weeks , and Abraham Lincoln went back to his surveying . He was not the same man he had been . The grasp of his band , when he met Jack Armstrong , was as hearty as ...
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Page 212 - 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.
Page 287 - If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
Page 305 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 109 - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!
Page 337 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain.
Page 402 - 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 very 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 287 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oftexpressed personal...
Page 307 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.
Page 298 - The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south.
Page 205 - 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 cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field 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.