Abraham LincolnCassell, 1885 - 128 pages |
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... duties im- mediately , for the merchandise with which Mr. Offutt was to furnish the store had not arrived ; and while waiting for this Abe accepted a temporary engagement during an election which was being held . A clerk was wanted at ...
... duties im- mediately , for the merchandise with which Mr. Offutt was to furnish the store had not arrived ; and while waiting for this Abe accepted a temporary engagement during an election which was being held . A clerk was wanted at ...
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... duties in the store , he walked to the woman's house , a distance of between two and three miles , to put the matter right by returning to her the money she had overpaid . At another time a woman came in just before he was closing the ...
... duties in the store , he walked to the woman's house , a distance of between two and three miles , to put the matter right by returning to her the money she had overpaid . At another time a woman came in just before he was closing the ...
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... duties . Lincoln now commenced to assist Mr. Calhoun ; he was allowed also to have a private surveying practice of his own ; and ere long he had succeeded so well as to have many important duties entrusted to him , all of which he ...
... duties . Lincoln now commenced to assist Mr. Calhoun ; he was allowed also to have a private surveying practice of his own ; and ere long he had succeeded so well as to have many important duties entrusted to him , all of which he ...
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... duties of this office , carried on at a store , were by no means onerous , the mail arriving only once a week , and the number of letters and newspapers then received not being great . But , as one of his biographers remarks , Lincoln ...
... duties of this office , carried on at a store , were by no means onerous , the mail arriving only once a week , and the number of letters and newspapers then received not being great . But , as one of his biographers remarks , Lincoln ...
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... duties , and many hours of the night to the eager study of law , of politics , and of other subjects -the months flew by until 1837 , when , having in the meantime been re - elected to the Legislature , attended to his duties there ...
... duties , and many hours of the night to the eager study of law , of politics , and of other subjects -the months flew by until 1837 , when , having in the meantime been re - elected to the Legislature , attended to his duties there ...
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Page 73 - 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 push...
Page 86 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. 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 battle-field 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...
Page 95 - We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final restingplace of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 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.
Page 73 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Page 81 - I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that His hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me — and I think He has — I believe I am ready. I am nothing, but truth is everything. I know I am right because I know that liberty is right, for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God.
Page 73 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In ray opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 84 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 86 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 83 - FRIENDS : — No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century ; here my children were born, and here one of them lies huried. I know not how soon I shall see you again.
Page 83 - A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of WASHINGTON. He never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support...