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... members of Congress - men hon- ored and respected , saw no moral wrong in holding negroes as slaves . There always had been slaves . In Bible times , Moses , who gave laws to the children of Israel , established statutes relating to ...
... members of Congress - men hon- ored and respected , saw no moral wrong in holding negroes as slaves . There always had been slaves . In Bible times , Moses , who gave laws to the children of Israel , established statutes relating to ...
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... members in the Legislature from Sangamon County . By the ordinance of 1787 ... member of the Legislature introduced a series of resolutions which deprecated ... Congress had the right to abolish it in the District of Columbia and in the ...
... members in the Legislature from Sangamon County . By the ordinance of 1787 ... member of the Legislature introduced a series of resolutions which deprecated ... Congress had the right to abolish it in the District of Columbia and in the ...
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... Congress , a gu- bernatorial or a presidential chair ; but such belong not to the family of the lion or the brood of ... members for the Legislature , Mr. Lincoln was again a candidate . His opponent , Colonel Taylor , said the Whig ...
... Congress , a gu- bernatorial or a presidential chair ; but such belong not to the family of the lion or the brood of ... members for the Legislature , Mr. Lincoln was again a candidate . His opponent , Colonel Taylor , said the Whig ...
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... Congress . With one mem- ber of the firm in Washington , and the other giving his attention to politics , the ... members of the Legislature , and distinguished visitors . They received a gracious welcome from the young bride , whose ...
... Congress . With one mem- ber of the firm in Washington , and the other giving his attention to politics , the ... members of the Legislature , and distinguished visitors . They received a gracious welcome from the young bride , whose ...
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... members of Congress , fought a duel , in which Cilley was killed . Lincoln was quite willing to come to satisfactory terms with Shields for anything that he had written himself , but he could not in honor say to him that the second ...
... members of Congress , fought a duel , in which Cilley was killed . Lincoln was quite willing to come to satisfactory terms with Shields for anything that he had written himself , but he could not in honor say to him that the second ...
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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.