History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclamations, and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of His Life |
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... appreciation of the papers themselves , and not by any means to give a com- plete history of the events by which this momen- tous period in the career of our country has been marked . If the public shall find in this work any import-
... appreciation of the papers themselves , and not by any means to give a com- plete history of the events by which this momen- tous period in the career of our country has been marked . If the public shall find in this work any import-
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... to the country . The Mexican War was then in pro- gress , and Congress had to deal with grave questions arising out of it , besides the many which were to be passed upon as to the means by which it was 22 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... to the country . The Mexican War was then in pro- gress , and Congress had to deal with grave questions arising out of it , besides the many which were to be passed upon as to the means by which it was 22 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... means by which it was to be carried on . The irrepressible Slavery Question was there , also , in many of its Protean forms , in questions on the right of petition , in questions as to the District of Columbia , in many questions as to ...
... means by which it was to be carried on . The irrepressible Slavery Question was there , also , in many of its Protean forms , in questions on the right of petition , in questions as to the District of Columbia , in many questions as to ...
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... means and appliances , he shall suc- ceed in bringing public sentiment to an exact accord- ance with his own views - when these vast assemblages shall echo back all these sentiments , when they shall come to repeat his views and to avow ...
... means and appliances , he shall suc- ceed in bringing public sentiment to an exact accord- ance with his own views - when these vast assemblages shall echo back all these sentiments , when they shall come to repeat his views and to avow ...
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... means by which the people of a Territory could exclude Slavery from its limits in spite of the Dred Scott decision . When Mr. Lincoln was preparing these questions for Douglas , he was urged by some of his friends not to corner him on ...
... means by which the people of a Territory could exclude Slavery from its limits in spite of the Dred Scott decision . When Mr. Lincoln was preparing these questions for Douglas , he was urged by some of his friends not to corner him on ...
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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"?