Abraham Lincoln: With Twenty-four IllustrationsJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - 397 pages |
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... position than any other man of modern times , although there was nothing eccentric or abnormal about him ; there were no mysteries in his career to excite curi- osity ; no controversies concerning his conduct , morals , or motives ; no ...
... position than any other man of modern times , although there was nothing eccentric or abnormal about him ; there were no mysteries in his career to excite curi- osity ; no controversies concerning his conduct , morals , or motives ; no ...
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... position ; he had rendered no great public service ; his reputation was that of a debater and politician , and did not be- come national until he delivered a remarkable speech at Cooper Union , New York . His election was not due to ...
... position ; he had rendered no great public service ; his reputation was that of a debater and politician , and did not be- come national until he delivered a remarkable speech at Cooper Union , New York . His election was not due to ...
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... position ; and could even read and write , which was a remarkable accomplishment among the women of that day . She taught her husband to write his name . But she had no means whatever , being entirely dependent upon her uncle , and it ...
... position ; and could even read and write , which was a remarkable accomplishment among the women of that day . She taught her husband to write his name . But she had no means whatever , being entirely dependent upon her uncle , and it ...
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... position can realize 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 buried . I know not how soon I ...
... position can realize 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 buried . I know not how soon I ...
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... career had been an incessant struggle , a ceaseless endeavor , and his tender- ness is traceable to impressions thus formed . No man ever occupied a similar position whose experience had been so 50 THE TRUE ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... career had been an incessant struggle , a ceaseless endeavor , and his tender- ness is traceable to impressions thus formed . No man ever occupied a similar position whose experience had been so 50 THE TRUE ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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Page 108 - 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...
Page 49 - I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 259 - What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good...
Page 49 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 258 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.
Page 383 - The will of God prevails. In great contests each 393 party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be and one must be wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.
Page 199 - 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 321 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 120 - ... (It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a Territory under the Constitution ; the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere unless it is supported by local police regulations.
Page 378 - 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.