The Pioneer Boy: And how He Became President, The Story of the Life of Abraham Lincoln |
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... brought to the front in this life of Lincoln , as they were in that of Garfield , and they are made to portray the life of the man . Facts are better than logic to exhibit the elements of personal character ; therefore we let incidents ...
... brought to the front in this life of Lincoln , as they were in that of Garfield , and they are made to portray the life of the man . Facts are better than logic to exhibit the elements of personal character ; therefore we let incidents ...
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... brought down two Indians , half - suffocated , into the room . Mr. Merrill , by a desperate exertion , rose up , and speedily finished these two with a billet of wood . At the same time his wife dealt so heavy a blow upon the only ...
... brought down two Indians , half - suffocated , into the room . Mr. Merrill , by a desperate exertion , rose up , and speedily finished these two with a billet of wood . At the same time his wife dealt so heavy a blow upon the only ...
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... brought , and the bed was complete . " Now a sackful of straw on that will make a fine bed . " Dry leaves , hay , and husks were sometimes used for this purpose . Few had feathers in that region . " You must keep on with your cabinet ...
... brought , and the bed was complete . " Now a sackful of straw on that will make a fine bed . " Dry leaves , hay , and husks were sometimes used for this purpose . Few had feathers in that region . " You must keep on with your cabinet ...
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... brought no relief to the sinking patients . In a few days both of them died , spreading gloom over the neighbourhood , and creating the saddest experience Abraham and Dennis ever knew . A spot was selected for the burial - place of the ...
... brought no relief to the sinking patients . In a few days both of them died , spreading gloom over the neighbourhood , and creating the saddest experience Abraham and Dennis ever knew . A spot was selected for the burial - place of the ...
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... brought the parson . After the lapse of about three months he came . The letter reached him in Kentucky , after considerable delay , and he embraced the first opportunity to visit his old friends . Abraham had almost concluded that his ...
... brought the parson . After the lapse of about three months he came . The letter reached him in Kentucky , after considerable delay , and he embraced the first opportunity to visit his old friends . Abraham had almost concluded that his ...
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Page 281 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 357 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense ; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 356 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St.
Page 356 - ... 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 341 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it.
Page 356 - State shall have participated, shall in the absence of strong countervailing testimony be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States.
Page 353 - 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 364 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 314 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 352 - Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression of the public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government.