Abraham LincolnCassell, 1885 - 128 pages |
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... miles each day to obtain it ; but it was for a very short time that he had attended school , nor does he seem to have been taught anything except a little writing and spelling . And though , as we shall see , he went to school in ...
... miles each day to obtain it ; but it was for a very short time that he had attended school , nor does he seem to have been taught anything except a little writing and spelling . And though , as we shall see , he went to school in ...
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... miles from the Lincoln cabin , and in a short time not only were Mr. and Mrs. Sparrow fatally attacked , but , worse than all , Mrs. Lincoln was stricken down by it , and in a few days Abraham was motherless . Living in such a spot as ...
... miles from the Lincoln cabin , and in a short time not only were Mr. and Mrs. Sparrow fatally attacked , but , worse than all , Mrs. Lincoln was stricken down by it , and in a few days Abraham was motherless . Living in such a spot as ...
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... miles of the Lincoln cabin , a log hut had been erected at a short distance away , and was to be used as a school - house . To this she at once determined to send Abraham ; and thither he went . An old , tattered arithmetic was bought ...
... miles of the Lincoln cabin , a log hut had been erected at a short distance away , and was to be used as a school - house . To this she at once determined to send Abraham ; and thither he went . An old , tattered arithmetic was bought ...
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... mile west of his father's farm , Abe would go and tell his jokes and stories , and was so odd , original , and humorous , and witty , that all the people in town would gather round him . He would keep them there till midnight ; I would ...
... mile west of his father's farm , Abe would go and tell his jokes and stories , and was so odd , original , and humorous , and witty , that all the people in town would gather round him . He would keep them there till midnight ; I would ...
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... miles . It says much for Mr. Gentry's faith in the capacity of Abraham that he should have been willing not only to entrust his boat , but also his son , to his care ; for young Lincoln was to be responsible for the whole management of ...
... miles . It says much for Mr. Gentry's faith in the capacity of Abraham that he should have been willing not only to entrust his boat , but also his son , to his care ; for young Lincoln was to be responsible for the whole management of ...
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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...