Abraham LincolnHarper & Brothers, 1893 - 542 pages |
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... Salem , Ill . From playmates of his childhood , and from those who knew him in later years , I have obtained information which may be accepted as authentic . I am especially in- debted to Joseph Gentry , of Gentryville , Ind .; William ...
... Salem , Ill . From playmates of his childhood , and from those who knew him in later years , I have obtained information which may be accepted as authentic . I am especially in- debted to Joseph Gentry , of Gentryville , Ind .; William ...
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... SALEM .. 71 CHAPTER VI . IN PUBLIC LIFE .. RIDING THE CIRCUIT . 88 88 CHAPTER VII . . 102 CHAPTER VIII . SEVEN YEARS OF ACTIVE LIFE ... 115 CHAPTER IX . BEGINNING OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN FREEDOM AND SLAVERY .. 134 CHAPTER X. KANSAS ...
... SALEM .. 71 CHAPTER VI . IN PUBLIC LIFE .. RIDING THE CIRCUIT . 88 88 CHAPTER VII . . 102 CHAPTER VIII . SEVEN YEARS OF ACTIVE LIFE ... 115 CHAPTER IX . BEGINNING OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN FREEDOM AND SLAVERY .. 134 CHAPTER X. KANSAS ...
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... Salem . ( From a photograph taken by the author in 1890 ) 55 " He stood in the auction - room where they were sold " ..... 57 Site of Thomas Lincoln's Home on Knob Creek . ( From a photograph taken by the author , October , 1891 ) . A ...
... Salem . ( From a photograph taken by the author in 1890 ) 55 " He stood in the auction - room where they were sold " ..... 57 Site of Thomas Lincoln's Home on Knob Creek . ( From a photograph taken by the author , October , 1891 ) . A ...
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... Salem Harbor . It is probable that Samuel Lincoln , for lack of wool , did not do [ The Guildhall in which the Puritans were imprisoned is seen in the centre of the picture . ] much weaving in the town of Ipswich , where his. PUBLIC ...
... Salem Harbor . It is probable that Samuel Lincoln , for lack of wool , did not do [ The Guildhall in which the Puritans were imprisoned is seen in the centre of the picture . ] much weaving in the town of Ipswich , where his. PUBLIC ...
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... Salem , Mass . , 1637 ; that he was eigh- teen years of age , and subsequently settled in Hingham , and was the ancestor of the Pres- ident . The maiden name of his wife was Martha , but her family name is not known , Their children ...
... Salem , Mass . , 1637 ; that he was eigh- teen years of age , and subsequently settled in Hingham , and was the ancestor of the Pres- ident . The maiden name of his wife was Martha , but her family name is not known , Their children ...
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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.