The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and Death |
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... Constitution , to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States . " They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power , under the Constitution , to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia ; but ...
... Constitution , to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States . " They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power , under the Constitution , to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia ; but ...
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... Constitution itself carried slavery all over the Territories of the United States . In spite of this decision , the ... Constitution . The trick by which they sub- mitted to the popular vote only a schedule on the slavery question ...
... Constitution itself carried slavery all over the Territories of the United States . In spite of this decision , the ... Constitution . The trick by which they sub- mitted to the popular vote only a schedule on the slavery question ...
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... Constitution , compelling every voter , however he might vote upon this schedule , to vote for their Constitution , which fixed slavery upon the State just as surely , whether the schedule was adopted or not , will be well remembered ...
... Constitution , compelling every voter , however he might vote upon this schedule , to vote for their Constitution , which fixed slavery upon the State just as surely , whether the schedule was adopted or not , will be well remembered ...
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... Constitution was or was not , in any just sense , made by the people of Kansas ; and in that quarrel the latter ... Constitution , involves nothing of the origi nal Nebraska doctrine . That struggle was made on a point - the right of a ...
... Constitution was or was not , in any just sense , made by the people of Kansas ; and in that quarrel the latter ... Constitution , involves nothing of the origi nal Nebraska doctrine . That struggle was made on a point - the right of a ...
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... Constitution . " What the Constitution had to do with it , outsiders could not then see . Plainly enough now , it was an exactly fitted niche for the Dred Scott decision to afterward come in , and declare the perfect freedom of the ...
... Constitution . " What the Constitution had to do with it , outsiders could not then see . Plainly enough now , it was an exactly fitted niche for the Dred Scott decision to afterward come in , and declare the perfect freedom of the ...
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Page 258 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree 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 and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons...
Page 118 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 724 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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 643 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 260 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and 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...
Page 253 - 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 destroy Slavery.
Page 165 - 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 642 - On the occasion corresponding to this four" years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it.
Page 350 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before?
Page 54 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will...