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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... citizens from the town . When the prisoner and his mother entered , silence reigned as completely as though the house were empty . The fore- man of the jury , in answer to the usual inquiry from the court , delivered the verdict of ...
... citizens from the town . When the prisoner and his mother entered , silence reigned as completely as though the house were empty . The fore- man of the jury , in answer to the usual inquiry from the court , delivered the verdict of ...
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... citizens on our own soil . This position he believed to be false , and he accordingly attacked it in a series of resolutions requesting the President to give the House information . on that point ; which President Polk would have found ...
... citizens on our own soil . This position he believed to be false , and he accordingly attacked it in a series of resolutions requesting the President to give the House information . on that point ; which President Polk would have found ...
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... citizens on our own soil . The quaint phraseology of the resolutions stamps them as the production of Mr. Lincoln's pen . They read as follows : Resolved by the House of Representatives , That the President of the United States be ...
... citizens on our own soil . The quaint phraseology of the resolutions stamps them as the production of Mr. Lincoln's pen . They read as follows : Resolved by the House of Representatives , That the President of the United States be ...
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... citizen of any State , in the sense of that term as used in the Constitution of the United States . This point is ... citizens in the several States . " Secondly . That , " subject to the Constitution of the United States , " neither ...
... citizen of any State , in the sense of that term as used in the Constitution of the United States . This point is ... citizens in the several States . " Secondly . That , " subject to the Constitution of the United States , " neither ...
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... CITIZENS OF NEW YORK : -The facts with which I shall deal this evening are mainly old and familiar ; nor is there any thing new in the general use I shall make of them . If there shall be any novelty , it will be in the mode of ...
... CITIZENS OF NEW YORK : -The facts with which I shall deal this evening are mainly old and familiar ; nor is there any thing new in the general use I shall make of them . If there shall be any novelty , it will be in the mode of ...
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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...