Abraham Lincoln: A Character SketchH. G. Campbell publishing Company, 1903 - 180 pages |
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... especially after his memorable contest with Stephen A. Douglas . This , we think , unfair and ungenerous toward the great Emancipator , since few men in public life have more remarkably shown , as Lin- coln throughout his career showed ...
... especially after his memorable contest with Stephen A. Douglas . This , we think , unfair and ungenerous toward the great Emancipator , since few men in public life have more remarkably shown , as Lin- coln throughout his career showed ...
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... especially at the sects and their jar- ring discords . But if he took part in their levities , and even aired some of the cheap witicisims directed against religion by Volney and Tom Paine , of whose sceptical writ- ings he had been a ...
... especially at the sects and their jar- ring discords . But if he took part in their levities , and even aired some of the cheap witicisims directed against religion by Volney and Tom Paine , of whose sceptical writ- ings he had been a ...
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... especially towards the common people , whom , as he once said , God must assuredly like , else , as he characteristically put it , " He wouldn't have made so many of them . " Very charming was the interesting , figurative manner in ...
... especially towards the common people , whom , as he once said , God must assuredly like , else , as he characteristically put it , " He wouldn't have made so many of them . " Very charming was the interesting , figurative manner in ...
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... especially after he had gained confidence in his powers , and had partly slaked his appe- tite for mental food . At this time he even began to com- pose a little , one of his early attempts , it is related , being an essay , prompted by ...
... especially after he had gained confidence in his powers , and had partly slaked his appe- tite for mental food . At this time he even began to com- pose a little , one of his early attempts , it is related , being an essay , prompted by ...
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... especially in commenting upon them on some public occasion , as in the Gettysburg address or in his sec- ond Inaugural , Lincoln showed the moral grandeur of his nature and the deep heart of pity and reverence that was in him , by ...
... especially in commenting upon them on some public occasion , as in the Gettysburg address or in his sec- ond Inaugural , Lincoln showed the moral grandeur of his nature and the deep heart of pity and reverence that was in him , by ...
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Page 166 - I am loath 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 battlefield 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 166 - Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Page 165 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 166 - 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 64 - ... we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility....
Page 117 - Now, I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone.
Page 133 - Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Page 46 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, — 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 the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will...
Page 46 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to and conducted by its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through,...
Page 167 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they...