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... matter was that the man became his fast and life - long friend , and was a better man from that day . It was impossible then , and it always remained impossible , for Lincoln to cherish resentment or revenge . There lived at this time ...
... matter was that the man became his fast and life - long friend , and was a better man from that day . It was impossible then , and it always remained impossible , for Lincoln to cherish resentment or revenge . There lived at this time ...
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... matters of public concern , his unwearying good nature , his skill in telling a story , his great athletic power , his quaint , odd ways , his uncouth appearance , all tended to bring him into sharp con- trast with the dull mediocrity ...
... matters of public concern , his unwearying good nature , his skill in telling a story , his great athletic power , his quaint , odd ways , his uncouth appearance , all tended to bring him into sharp con- trast with the dull mediocrity ...
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... matter of history , but the fact that he did so is , as is the further fact that Greene's mother , who loved Lincoln , tried to smooth over the accident , and relieve the young man's embarrassment . Wherever he moved he found men and ...
... matter of history , but the fact that he did so is , as is the further fact that Greene's mother , who loved Lincoln , tried to smooth over the accident , and relieve the young man's embarrassment . Wherever he moved he found men and ...
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... matter of policy , for which a good reason could be given . It was something , however , for two men to stand out , and protest that slavery was a moral and political evil , over which Congress had power upon the national territory . It ...
... matter of policy , for which a good reason could be given . It was something , however , for two men to stand out , and protest that slavery was a moral and political evil , over which Congress had power upon the national territory . It ...
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... matter , telling him frankly that he had no case , and ought not to prosecute . Sometimes he was deceived . Sometimes he discovered , in the middle of a trial , by the revelation of a witness , that his client had lied to him . After ...
... matter , telling him frankly that he had no case , and ought not to prosecute . Sometimes he was deceived . Sometimes he discovered , in the middle of a trial , by the revelation of a witness , that his client had lied to him . After ...
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Page 353 - 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 502 - 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 bond-man's two hundred and fifty years...
Page 398 - Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do• on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate, as the states...
Page 405 - Fellow-citizens, 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.
Page 160 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 209 - 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 394 - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 280 - 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 284 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 393 - 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...