Abraham Lincoln's Stories and Speeches: Including "Early Life Stories;" "Professional Life Stories;" "White House Incidents;" "War Reminiscences," Etc., Etc. Also His Speeches, Chronologically Arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to His Last Speech in Washington, April 11, 1865Rhodes & McClure Publishing Company, 1896 - 477 pages |
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... remarked quietly that he had never used any man's money but his own . Although this sum had been in his hands during all these years , he had never regarded it as available , even for any temporary use of his own . How Lincoln Piloted a ...
... remarked quietly that he had never used any man's money but his own . Although this sum had been in his hands during all these years , he had never regarded it as available , even for any temporary use of his own . How Lincoln Piloted a ...
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... remarked to a friend that if that was what they called a science , he thought he could subdue another . " Mr. Green says that Mr. Lincoln's talk at this time showed that he was beginning to think of a great life and a great destiny ...
... remarked to a friend that if that was what they called a science , he thought he could subdue another . " Mr. Green says that Mr. Lincoln's talk at this time showed that he was beginning to think of a great life and a great destiny ...
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... remarked : 66 If Mr. Chase has said some hard things about me , I in turn have said some hard things about him , which , I guess , squares the account . ' Mr. Chase was appointed . " He was an American in the highest sense . He stood ...
... remarked : 66 If Mr. Chase has said some hard things about me , I in turn have said some hard things about him , which , I guess , squares the account . ' Mr. Chase was appointed . " He was an American in the highest sense . He stood ...
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... remarked to the company that as an appropriate conclusion to an interview so important and interesting as that which had just transpired , he supposed good manners would require that he should treat the committee with something to drink ...
... remarked to the company that as an appropriate conclusion to an interview so important and interesting as that which had just transpired , he supposed good manners would require that he should treat the committee with something to drink ...
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... remarked : ' I have not supposed that you were accustomed to think so much upon this class of subjects ; cetainly your friends generally are ignorant of the sentiments you have expressed to me . ' " He replied quickly : ' I know they ...
... remarked : ' I have not supposed that you were accustomed to think so much upon this class of subjects ; cetainly your friends generally are ignorant of the sentiments you have expressed to me . ' " He replied quickly : ' I know they ...
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Page 432 - I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 444 - ... commander-in-chief of the army and 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...
Page 453 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Page 455 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 184 - Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer.
Page 454 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge...
Page 350 - 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 434 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts ; but, beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 438 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Page 184 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.