Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2Houghton Mifflin, 1895 |
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Page 126 - 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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. "Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will
Page 114 - It stated that, on January 1, 1863, "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free;
Page 255 - And everyone that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 160 - MY DEAR GENERAL, — I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable services you have done the country. "I wish to say a word further. When you reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally
Page 288 - This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this administration will not be reelected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration, as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards.
Page 374 - York Times. LINCOLN. Asa Life of Lincoln it has no competitors ; as a political history of the Union side during the Civil War, it is the most comprehensive, and, in proportion to its range, the most compact. — Harvard Graduates' Magazine. *„* For Sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by the Publishers, HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY,
Page 18 - sent to Congress a special message, recommending the adoption of a joint resolution: "That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconvenience, both public and private, produced by such change of system.
Page 105 - 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
Page 206 - and deceitful speech they have striven to hinder it. Still, let us not be over-sanguine of a speedy final triumph. Let us be quite sober. Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. This
Page 25 - Heaven, not rending or wrecking anything. Will you not embrace it ? So much good has not been done by one effort in all past time, as in the providence of God it is now your high privilege to do. May the vast future not have to lament that you have neglected it!