History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclamations, and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of His Life |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 28
... United States Senator , but without success - the Democrats having the control of the State , which they retained until the conflict arising out of the Nebraska Bill , in 1854 . During the intervening period Mr. Lincoln took no ...
... United States Senator , but without success - the Democrats having the control of the State , which they retained until the conflict arising out of the Nebraska Bill , in 1854 . During the intervening period Mr. Lincoln took no ...
Page 33
... United States . The speech of Mr. Lincoln to the Convention which had nominated him , was the beginning of the campaign . Its opening sentences contained those celebrated words , which have been often quoted both by friends and ene ...
... United States . The speech of Mr. Lincoln to the Convention which had nominated him , was the beginning of the campaign . Its opening sentences contained those celebrated words , which have been often quoted both by friends and ene ...
Page 53
... United States on the sixth day of November 1860. The preliminary canvass had not been marked by any very extra- ordinary features . Party lines were a good deal broken up , and four presidential candidates were in the field ; but this ...
... United States on the sixth day of November 1860. The preliminary canvass had not been marked by any very extra- ordinary features . Party lines were a good deal broken up , and four presidential candidates were in the field ; but this ...
Page 56
... United States is supreme : and it soon became evident that the President adopted this theory as the basis and guide of his Executive action . South Carolina took the lead in the secession movement . Her legislature assembled on the 4th ...
... United States is supreme : and it soon became evident that the President adopted this theory as the basis and guide of his Executive action . South Carolina took the lead in the secession movement . Her legislature assembled on the 4th ...
Page 60
... United States , and estab- lishing a new nation , with a new Constitution , resting upon new principles , and aiming at new results . The Constitution of the United States was ordained " in order to form a more perfect Union , establish ...
... United States , and estab- lishing a new nation , with a new Constitution , resting upon new principles , and aiming at new results . The Constitution of the United States was ordained " in order to form a more perfect Union , establish ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ABRAHAM LINCOLN action Administration adopted Alexandria amendment arms army arrests authority battle believe bill capital citizens command Congress Constitution Convention corps declared deemed Department dispatch duty election emancipation enemy EXECUTIVE MANSION existing favor force foreign Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe Fredericksburg give Government Governor habeas corpus Halleck Heintzelman House insurgents insurrection issued James River Kentucky labor letter liberty loyal Major-General Maryland McClellan McDowell measures ment military Missouri naval navy necessity oath object officers opinion party peace persons political Pope position Potomac present President LINCOLN proclamation public safety purpose question re-enforcements rebel rebellion received regard reply Republican resolution Richmond river seceded Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent sentiment session Seward slavery slaves South South Carolina Tennessee territory thing tion troops Union United Vallandigham Virginia vote Washington whole
Popular passages
Page 120 - 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 215 - ... i recommend to them that in all cases when allowed they labor faithfully for reasonable wages and i further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the united states...
Page 215 - 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 and parts of States wherein the people...
Page 433 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder: and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress or by decision of the Supreme Court...
Page 312 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and when after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.
Page 211 - 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 139 - Must a Government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence...
Page 117 - A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Page 118 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 114 - Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not, in any case, surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that "the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States"?