History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclamations, and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of His Life |
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... executive power , to protect slavery in the territories , against any legislation either of Congress or of the people of the territories themselves , which should seek to impair in any degree the right , alleged to be recognized in the ...
... executive power , to protect slavery in the territories , against any legislation either of Congress or of the people of the territories themselves , which should seek to impair in any degree the right , alleged to be recognized in the ...
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... Executive action . South Carolina took the lead in the secession movement . Her legislature assembled on the 4th of November , 1860 , and , after casting the electoral vote of the State for JOHN C. BRECK- INRIDGE to be President of the ...
... Executive action . South Carolina took the lead in the secession movement . Her legislature assembled on the 4th of November , 1860 , and , after casting the electoral vote of the State for JOHN C. BRECK- INRIDGE to be President of the ...
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... Executive may recommend measures which he may think proper , and he may veto those he thinks improper , and it is supposed that he may add to these certain indirect influences to affect the action of Congress . My political education ...
... Executive may recommend measures which he may think proper , and he may veto those he thinks improper , and it is supposed that he may add to these certain indirect influences to affect the action of Congress . My political education ...
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... Executive branch of the Government . They have conducted it through many perils , and generally with great success . Yet , with all this scope for precedent , I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitu- tional term of four ...
... Executive branch of the Government . They have conducted it through many perils , and generally with great success . Yet , with all this scope for precedent , I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitu- tional term of four ...
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... Executive , as such , has nothing to do with it . His duty is to administer the present Government as it came to his hands , and to transmit it , unimpaired by him , to his successor . Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ...
... Executive , as such , has nothing to do with it . His duty is to administer the present Government as it came to his hands , and to transmit it , unimpaired by him , to his successor . Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ...
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Page 65 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth 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 angels of our nature.
Page 65 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 83 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence...
Page 377 - 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 65 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 133 - 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 133 - Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three...
Page 65 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 132 - ... 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 125 - I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty ; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.