Abraham Lincoln: With Twenty-four IllustrationsJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - 397 pages |
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... side during the Civil War . He killed a Dunkard preacher whom he suspected of furnishing information to the Union army . The Union President received several letters of offensive tone from his kinsman in the South during the earlier ...
... side during the Civil War . He killed a Dunkard preacher whom he suspected of furnishing information to the Union army . The Union President received several letters of offensive tone from his kinsman in the South during the earlier ...
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... side , and without windows or chimney . This was Abraham Lincoln's third home , and the family lived in that rude , primitive way for more than a year , managing to raise a patch of corn and a few vegetables during the following summer ...
... side , and without windows or chimney . This was Abraham Lincoln's third home , and the family lived in that rude , primitive way for more than a year , managing to raise a patch of corn and a few vegetables during the following summer ...
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... side of the Sangamon River , at the junction of the timber land and prairie , about ten miles westerly from Decatur , Here they built a log cabin , into which they removed , and made sufficient of rails to fence ten acres of ground ...
... side of the Sangamon River , at the junction of the timber land and prairie , about ten miles westerly from Decatur , Here they built a log cabin , into which they removed , and made sufficient of rails to fence ten acres of ground ...
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... side- show interested him more than anything else on the grounds . Lincoln insisted upon testing the weights he handled , and was quite chagrined because he was not able to throw them about as easily as the professional . As they parted ...
... side- show interested him more than anything else on the grounds . Lincoln insisted upon testing the weights he handled , and was quite chagrined because he was not able to throw them about as easily as the professional . As they parted ...
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... side at breakfast , dinner , and supper , and usually spent his evenings with her upon the tavern steps or wandering in the lanes of the neigh- borhood . It was a long time before the girl would listen to his suit ; but , convinced that ...
... side at breakfast , dinner , and supper , and usually spent his evenings with her upon the tavern steps or wandering in the lanes of the neigh- borhood . It was a long time before the girl would listen to his suit ; but , convinced that ...
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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.