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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... If slavery is right , all words , acts , laws and constitutions against it , are themselves wrong , and should be silenced and swept away . If it is right , we can not justly object to its na- tionality - its universality , if , it is ...
... If slavery is right , all words , acts , laws and constitutions against it , are themselves wrong , and should be silenced and swept away . If it is right , we can not justly object to its na- tionality - its universality , if , it is ...
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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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | 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, 1865 |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | James Baird McClure |
| Publisher | Rhodes & McClure Publishing Company, 1896 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Mar 2006 |
| Length | 477 pages |
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