Lincoln, His Life and Time: Being the Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States, Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages and Proclamations and Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and Death, Volume 1This work is a biography of Abraham Lincoln and focuses on his presidency and administration during the Civil War. |
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... Adopt and adhere to this course , and , it seems to me , the difficulty is cleared . One of the gentlemen from South Carolina [ Mr. Rhett ] very much de- precates these statistics . He particularly objects , as I understand him , to ...
... Adopt and adhere to this course , and , it seems to me , the difficulty is cleared . One of the gentlemen from South Carolina [ Mr. Rhett ] very much de- precates these statistics . He particularly objects , as I understand him , to ...
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... universally accepted as a declara tion that he meant to sustain all the acts of the Lecomp- ton Convention , ey pro - slavery constitution should be formed , the responsibility for the adoption of 46 THE LIFE , PUBLIC SERVICES , AND.
... universally accepted as a declara tion that he meant to sustain all the acts of the Lecomp- ton Convention , ey pro - slavery constitution should be formed , the responsibility for the adoption of 46 THE LIFE , PUBLIC SERVICES , AND.
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... adoption of which he meant to fasten upon the Republican party , since it was anticipated that the members of that ... adopted , and ridiculed mercilessly the myth- ical " Free State Democrats , " of whom so much had been said . Next ...
... adoption of which he meant to fasten upon the Republican party , since it was anticipated that the members of that ... adopted , and ridiculed mercilessly the myth- ical " Free State Democrats , " of whom so much had been said . Next ...
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... adopted the Lecompton Constitution . The trick by which they sub- mitted to the popular vote only a schedule on the slavery " question , instead of the whole Constitution , compelling every STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 49.
... adopted the Lecompton Constitution . The trick by which they sub- mitted to the popular vote only a schedule on the slavery " question , instead of the whole Constitution , compelling every STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 49.
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... adopted or not , will be well remembered , as well as the feeling which so unjust a device excited throughout the North . Judge Douglas had sustained the Dred Scott decision , but he could not sustain this attempt to force upon the ...
... adopted or not , will be well remembered , as well as the feeling which so unjust a device excited throughout the North . Judge Douglas had sustained the Dred Scott decision , but he could not sustain this attempt to force upon the ...
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Page 263 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free ; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Page 260 - ... 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 or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 262 - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States, and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 54 - 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 push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 170 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 55 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 101 - All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy.
Page 262 - ... 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...
Page 171 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Page 362 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.