Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, Volume 2Century Company, 1894 - United States |
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... important question connected with this subject is one of a political character . The State of South Carolina is in open rebellion against the government . Her authorities have seized the public property , have wholly disregarded the ...
... important question connected with this subject is one of a political character . The State of South Carolina is in open rebellion against the government . Her authorities have seized the public property , have wholly disregarded the ...
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... important matter ; but , on the contrary , I not only shall receive the advice of the Senate thereon cheerfully , but I respect- fully ask the Senate for their advice on the three questions before recited . WASHINGTON , March 16 , 1861 ...
... important matter ; but , on the contrary , I not only shall receive the advice of the Senate thereon cheerfully , but I respect- fully ask the Senate for their advice on the three questions before recited . WASHINGTON , March 16 , 1861 ...
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... important . A convention elected by the peo- ple of that State to consider this very question of disrupting the Federal Union was in session at the capital of Virginia when Fort Sumter fell . To this body the people had chosen a large ...
... important . A convention elected by the peo- ple of that State to consider this very question of disrupting the Federal Union was in session at the capital of Virginia when Fort Sumter fell . To this body the people had chosen a large ...
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... important for you to know . It is now recommended that you give the legal means for making this contest a short and decisive one : that you place at the control of the government for the work at least four hundred thousand men and ...
... important for you to know . It is now recommended that you give the legal means for making this contest a short and decisive one : that you place at the control of the government for the work at least four hundred thousand men and ...
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... important fact of all , is the unanimous firmness of the common soldiers and common sailors . To the last man , so far as known , they have successfully resisted the traitorous efforts of those whose commands , but an hour before , they ...
... important fact of all , is the unanimous firmness of the common soldiers and common sailors . To the last man , so far as known , they have successfully resisted the traitorous efforts of those whose commands , but an hour before , they ...
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Page 587 - ... the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his...
Page 587 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives . to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 472 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 211 - ... rebellion against the United States ; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 56 - Must a Government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence...
Page 5 - Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.
Page 221 - 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 240 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Page 3 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 269 - 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.