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... directed to furnish rea- sonable transportation and other reasonable facilities to himself and personal staff not incon- sistent with the public service . ABRAHAM LINCOLN . INDORSEMENT , March 15 , 1864 While I leave this case to the ...
... directed to furnish rea- sonable transportation and other reasonable facilities to himself and personal staff not incon- sistent with the public service . ABRAHAM LINCOLN . INDORSEMENT , March 15 , 1864 While I leave this case to the ...
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... directed it ; and seeing it , in this case , we feel more hopeful and confident for the future . The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty , and the American people , just now , are much in want of one . We all ...
... directed it ; and seeing it , in this case , we feel more hopeful and confident for the future . The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty , and the American people , just now , are much in want of one . We all ...
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... directed to carry it into execution . April 23 , 1864 . A. LINCOLN . LETTER TO SECRETARY STANTON EXECUTIVE MANSION , April 23 , 1864 . My dear Sir : According to our understand- ing with Major - General Frank P. Blair at the 1864 ] 83 ...
... directed to carry it into execution . April 23 , 1864 . A. LINCOLN . LETTER TO SECRETARY STANTON EXECUTIVE MANSION , April 23 , 1864 . My dear Sir : According to our understand- ing with Major - General Frank P. Blair at the 1864 ] 83 ...
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... directed them , and especially to our Maker . Our com- manders are following up their victories reso- lutely and successfully . I think , without know- ing the particulars of the plans of General Grant , that what has been accomplished ...
... directed them , and especially to our Maker . Our com- manders are following up their victories reso- lutely and successfully . I think , without know- ing the particulars of the plans of General Grant , that what has been accomplished ...
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... directing , commanding , and forwarding . Con- sult together freely , watch Vallandigham and others closely , and upon discovering any palpa- ble injury or imminent danger to the military proceeding from him , them , or any of them , ar ...
... directing , commanding , and forwarding . Con- sult together freely , watch Vallandigham and others closely , and upon discovering any palpa- ble injury or imminent danger to the military proceeding from him , them , or any of them , ar ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN April army August B. F. BUTLER EXECUTIVE Baltimore Blair Burbridge BUTLER EXECUTIVE MANSION City Point Colonel command Constitution convention dear Sir December DEPARTMENT despatch E. R. S. CANBY election enemy February February 29 force Fort Monroe Fort Powell give Governor Johnson GRANT EXECUTIVE MANSION hereby honor HORACE GREELEY House of Representatives INDORSEMENT January July June labor LETTER TO SECRETARY LEW WALLACE liberty Lieutenant-General Grant loyal Major-General Butler March March 12 ment military Monroe Nashville naval November October officers peace persons ports present President proclamation rebel rebellion received retary Rosecrans Secretary of War SECRETARY STANTON EXECUTIVE Senate September SEWARD Sherman slavery soldiers STANTON EXECUTIVE MANSION TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR Tenn thanks thereof tion to-day Treasury truly U. S. GRANT EXECUTIVE Union United vote W. S. ROSECRANS W. T. SHERMAN WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON wish yesterday
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Page 52 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page v - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
Page 144 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 194 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page xxv - You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier! You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace. Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please...
Page 272 - An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes...
Page 204 - This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. 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 xxviii - The Old World and the New, from sea to sea, Utter one voice of sympathy and shame : Sore heart, so stopped when it at last beat high ! Sad life, cut short just as its triumph came...
Page 275 - Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and...
Page 279 - On Thursday, of last week, two ladies from Tennessee, came before the President, asking the release of their husbands, held as prisoners of war at Johnson's Island. They were put off until Friday, when they came again, and were again put off until Saturday. At each of the interviews, one of the ladies urged that her husband was a religious man. On Saturday, when the President ordered the release of the prisoners...