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... Speaking of General Cass's career reminds me of my own . I was not at Stillman's Defeat , but I was about as near it as Cass to Hull's surrender ; and like him I saw the place very soon afterward . It is quite certain I did not break my ...
... Speaking of General Cass's career reminds me of my own . I was not at Stillman's Defeat , but I was about as near it as Cass to Hull's surrender ; and like him I saw the place very soon afterward . It is quite certain I did not break my ...
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... speak one nor act one , and in the light of this fact all the words and acts of his life are to be judged . If this brief statement of his qualities and powers represents a wonderfully perfect character - so strangely pure and noble ...
... speak one nor act one , and in the light of this fact all the words and acts of his life are to be judged . If this brief statement of his qualities and powers represents a wonderfully perfect character - so strangely pure and noble ...
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... speak of his having studied law , or having begun the study of law , previous to 1834. He had doubtless thought of it , and had made it a subject of consideration among his friends . With a vague project of doing this at some time , he ...
... speak of his having studied law , or having begun the study of law , previous to 1834. He had doubtless thought of it , and had made it a subject of consideration among his friends . With a vague project of doing this at some time , he ...
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... speaking slowly , he began to lay down and fix his propositions . His auditors followed him with breathless attention , and saw him inclose his adversary in a wall of fact , and then weave over him a network of de- ductions so logically ...
... speaking slowly , he began to lay down and fix his propositions . His auditors followed him with breathless attention , and saw him inclose his adversary in a wall of fact , and then weave over him a network of de- ductions so logically ...
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... speaking of the fact subsequently , said that Douglas was then " the least man he ever saw . " He was not only very short but very slender . The two young men , who commenced their intellectual and political sparring during the session ...
... speaking of the fact subsequently , said that Douglas was then " the least man he ever saw . " He was not only very short but very slender . The two young men , who commenced their intellectual and political sparring during the session ...
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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...