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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... Government cut off the source of slavery by the abolition of the slave - trade , and adopted a system of restricting it from the new Territories where it had not existed , I maintain that they placed it where they understood , and all ...
... Government cut off the source of slavery by the abolition of the slave - trade , and adopted a system of restricting it from the new Territories where it had not existed , I maintain that they placed it where they understood , and all ...
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... Government , this principle would be , that a General Government shall do all those things which pertain to it , and all the local Governments shall do pre- cisely as they please in respect to those matters which exclusively concern ...
... Government , this principle would be , that a General Government shall do all those things which pertain to it , and all the local Governments shall do pre- cisely as they please in respect to those matters which exclusively concern ...
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... Government under which we live ? The answer must be : " The Constitution of the United States . " That Constitution consists of the original , framed in 1787 ( and under which the present government first went into operation ) , and ...
... Government under which we live ? The answer must be : " The Constitution of the United States . " That Constitution consists of the original , framed in 1787 ( and under which the present government first went into operation ) , and ...
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... Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory . No great while after the adoption of the original Constitution , North Carolina ceded to the Federal Government the country now constituting the State of Tennessee ; and , a few ...
... Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory . No great while after the adoption of the original Constitution , North Carolina ceded to the Federal Government the country now constituting the State of Tennessee ; and , a few ...
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... Government under which we live , " which is now claimed as forbidding the Federal Government to control slavery in the Federal territories . Is it not a little presumptuous in any one at this day to affirm that the two things which that ...
... Government under which we live , " which is now claimed as forbidding the Federal Government to control slavery in the Federal territories . Is it not a little presumptuous in any one at this day to affirm that the two things which that ...
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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...