Abraham Lincoln: A Character SketchH. G. Campbell publishing Company, 1903 - 180 pages |
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... force no movement until the rank and file of his party were abreast with him . In national politics , at the time of the meeting of the legislature of 1836-37 , the country was on the verge of a panic . The deposits of the United States ...
... force no movement until the rank and file of his party were abreast with him . In national politics , at the time of the meeting of the legislature of 1836-37 , the country was on the verge of a panic . The deposits of the United States ...
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... force of directness and sim- plicity to his style . seer . In all the political campaigns of the time his voice was heard in the meetings of politicians , in the grocery , or the office or on the rostrum . He was a central figure in ...
... force of directness and sim- plicity to his style . seer . In all the political campaigns of the time his voice was heard in the meetings of politicians , in the grocery , or the office or on the rostrum . He was a central figure in ...
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... force , a successful demagogue , a skilled debater , ready and resourceful , ambitious for pow- er , contending for measures abhorent to the spirit of free institutions as a means to the accomplishment of his am- bitions . Mr. Lincoln ...
... force , a successful demagogue , a skilled debater , ready and resourceful , ambitious for pow- er , contending for measures abhorent to the spirit of free institutions as a means to the accomplishment of his am- bitions . Mr. Lincoln ...
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... force abolition upon any State against the popular will and voice , he yet hated it thoroughly and looked with pain and abhorrence upon its existence in any and all sections of the Union . It may also assuredly be said that Lincoln ...
... force abolition upon any State against the popular will and voice , he yet hated it thoroughly and looked with pain and abhorrence upon its existence in any and all sections of the Union . It may also assuredly be said that Lincoln ...
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... force ; while he knew that the war then going on be- tween the North and South was a struggle on the part of the latter , not only for the right of secession , but to per- petuate slavery , the one factor that had divided the country ...
... force ; while he knew that the war then going on be- tween the North and South was a struggle on the part of the latter , not only for the right of secession , but to per- petuate slavery , the one factor that had divided the country ...
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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...