Abraham LincolnHarper & Brothers, 1893 - 542 pages |
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... Harper's Ferry . 146 Henry Wilson ... 149 Gideon Welles .. 144 Montgomery Blair .... 243 245 247 152 Robert E. Lee . 249 154 John A. Andrew .. . 251 155 Administering the Oath to Citizen Soldiers . 253 159 Reverdy Johnson .. 257 164 ...
... Harper's Ferry . 146 Henry Wilson ... 149 Gideon Welles .. 144 Montgomery Blair .... 243 245 247 152 Robert E. Lee . 249 154 John A. Andrew .. . 251 155 Administering the Oath to Citizen Soldiers . 253 159 Reverdy Johnson .. 257 164 ...
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... flock to him . There was no sanity in his plan . His few friends in whom he confided tried to dissuade him from such an attempt , but he HARPER'S FERRY . felt that he was called of God to execute it. 174 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . Harper's ...
... flock to him . There was no sanity in his plan . His few friends in whom he confided tried to dissuade him from such an attempt , but he HARPER'S FERRY . felt that he was called of God to execute it. 174 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . Harper's ...
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... Harper's Ferry , obtained guns which had been used by the Free State men in Kansas , and employed a black- smith to make pikes . 1859 . With seventeen white men and five negroes he marched in the night to Harper's Ferry , seized the ...
... Harper's Ferry , obtained guns which had been used by the Free State men in Kansas , and employed a black- smith to make pikes . 1859 . With seventeen white men and five negroes he marched in the night to Harper's Ferry , seized the ...
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... Harper's Ferry . Sustain Baltimore , if possible . We reinforce you . ” James M. Mason , of Virginia , a week before , had been in the Senate of the United States . He had gone to Baltimore , and was supplying the Secessionists with ...
... Harper's Ferry . Sustain Baltimore , if possible . We reinforce you . ” James M. Mason , of Virginia , a week before , had been in the Senate of the United States . He had gone to Baltimore , and was supplying the Secessionists with ...
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... Harper's Ferry . " On to Richmond ! " the cry . A like activity in the South had organized two large Confederate armies : one at the Manassas Junction , under Beauregard ; one in the Shenandoah Valley , under General Johnston . The ...
... Harper's Ferry . " On to Richmond ! " the cry . A like activity in the South had organized two large Confederate armies : one at the Manassas Junction , under Beauregard ; one in the Shenandoah Valley , under General Johnston . The ...
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Page 238 - 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 / shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend
Page 354 - 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.
Page 354 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 110 - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!
Page 487 - 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...
Page 402 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain.
Page 487 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 217 - My Friends, No one not in my situation can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Page 347 - The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south.
Page 336 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could do 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.