Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Containing His Early History and Political Career; Together with the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations and Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful Administration |
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I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free . " Springfield , Illinois , June , 1858 . " I am am exceedingly anxious that this Union , the Constitution , and the liberties of the people shall be ...
I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free . " Springfield , Illinois , June , 1858 . " I am am exceedingly anxious that this Union , the Constitution , and the liberties of the people shall be ...
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They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy ; but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils . “ They believe that the Congress of the United ...
They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy ; but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils . “ They believe that the Congress of the United ...
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I believe this Government can not 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 .
I believe this Government can not 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 .
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... we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning , and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck .
... we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning , and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck .
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“ A leading Douglas Democrat newspaper thinks Douglas's superior talent will be needed to resist the revival of the African slave - trade . Does Douglas believe an effort to revive that trade is approaching ? He has not said so .
“ A leading Douglas Democrat newspaper thinks Douglas's superior talent will be needed to resist the revival of the African slave - trade . Does Douglas believe an effort to revive that trade is approaching ? He has not said so .
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Page 359 - 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 bondman'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...
Page 191 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 207 - 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. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.
Page 220 - 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. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed...
Page 122 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Page 191 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or 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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
Page 358 - Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed very fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress...
Page 105 - Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon, the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 192 - That on the first day of January, in the year of "our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty"three, all persons held as slaves within any State or "designated part of a State, the people whereof shall "then be in rebellion against the United States, shall "be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Page 193 - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That this act shall take effect...
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| Title | Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Containing His Early History and Political Career; Together with the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations and Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful Administration |
| Author | Frank Crosby |
| Publisher | J.E. Potter, 1865 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 476 pages |
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