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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... Peace Conference . - Action of Con- gress . - The Secession Movement unchecked ...... Page 107 CHAPTER V. FROM SPRINGFIELD TO WASHINGTON . Speech at Indianapolis . - Arrival and Speech at Cincinnati . - Speech at Co- lumbus . - Speech ...
... Peace Conference . - Action of Con- gress . - The Secession Movement unchecked ...... Page 107 CHAPTER V. FROM SPRINGFIELD TO WASHINGTON . Speech at Indianapolis . - Arrival and Speech at Cincinnati . - Speech at Co- lumbus . - Speech ...
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... Peace Conference in Hampton Roads . - Military Affairs ... Page 620 CHAPTER XX . CLOSE OF THE REBELLION . The Inaugural Address . - Proclamation to Deserters . - Speeches by the Pres- ident . - Destruction of Lee's Army . - The ...
... Peace Conference in Hampton Roads . - Military Affairs ... Page 620 CHAPTER XX . CLOSE OF THE REBELLION . The Inaugural Address . - Proclamation to Deserters . - Speeches by the Pres- ident . - Destruction of Lee's Army . - The ...
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... peace ably , and in such slow degrees , as that the evil will wear off insensibly ; and their places be , pari passu , filled up by free white laborers . If , on the contrary , it is left to force itself on , human nature must shudder ...
... peace ably , and in such slow degrees , as that the evil will wear off insensibly ; and their places be , pari passu , filled up by free white laborers . If , on the contrary , it is left to force itself on , human nature must shudder ...
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... PEACE CONFERENCE . - ACTION OF CONGRESS . THE SECESSION MOVE- MENT UNCHECKED . ABRAHAM LINCOLN was elected to be President of the United States on the sixth day of November , 1860. The preliminary canvass had not been marked by any very ...
... PEACE CONFERENCE . - ACTION OF CONGRESS . THE SECESSION MOVE- MENT UNCHECKED . ABRAHAM LINCOLN was elected to be President of the United States on the sixth day of November , 1860. The preliminary canvass had not been marked by any very ...
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... peace- ful and satisfactory as he predicted . The policy of the new Confederacy towards the United States was soon officially made known . The government decided to maintain the status quo until the expiration of Mr. Buchanan's term ...
... peace- ful and satisfactory as he predicted . The policy of the new Confederacy towards the United States was soon officially made known . The government decided to maintain the status quo until the expiration of Mr. Buchanan's term ...
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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...