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... Jarvis Raymond. Photograph by Brady ALincoln Eng by AH Ritchie d HISTORY OF THE ADMINISTRATION ABYAMAS PRESIDENT LINCOLN СЯОЗХО INCLUDING HIS. DERBY & MILLER , PUBLISHERS , NEW YORK SPEECHES , LETTERS , ADDRESSES , PROCLAMATIONS ,
... Jarvis Raymond. Photograph by Brady ALincoln Eng by AH Ritchie d HISTORY OF THE ADMINISTRATION ABYAMAS PRESIDENT LINCOLN СЯОЗХО INCLUDING HIS. DERBY & MILLER , PUBLISHERS , NEW YORK SPEECHES , LETTERS , ADDRESSES , PROCLAMATIONS ,
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... LIFE . BY HENRY J. RAYMOND . NEW YORK : J. C. DERBY & N. C. MILLER , NO . 5 SPRUCE STREET . 1864 . 23352 .e.20 . BODLE LIBRARY 24 MAY86 OXFORD Entered according to Act of. SPEECHES , LETTERS , ADDRESSES , PROCLAMATIONS ,
... LIFE . BY HENRY J. RAYMOND . NEW YORK : J. C. DERBY & N. C. MILLER , NO . 5 SPRUCE STREET . 1864 . 23352 .e.20 . BODLE LIBRARY 24 MAY86 OXFORD Entered according to Act of. SPEECHES , LETTERS , ADDRESSES , PROCLAMATIONS ,
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... proclamations , and other doc- uments in which the President has embodied , from time to time , his sentiments on the affairs of the country , and set forth the motives which have prompted the successive acts of his Administration . In ...
... proclamations , and other doc- uments in which the President has embodied , from time to time , his sentiments on the affairs of the country , and set forth the motives which have prompted the successive acts of his Administration . In ...
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... proclamation , declaring the State of South Carolina to be a " separate , sovereign , free , and independent State . " This was the first act of secession passed by any State . The debates in the State Convention show clearly enough ...
... proclamation , declaring the State of South Carolina to be a " separate , sovereign , free , and independent State . " This was the first act of secession passed by any State . The debates in the State Convention show clearly enough ...
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... PROCLAMATION . By the President of the United States . WHEREAS , the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed , and the execution thereof obstructed , in the States of South Carolina , Georgia , Alabama ...
... PROCLAMATION . By the President of the United States . WHEREAS , the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed , and the execution thereof obstructed , in the States of South Carolina , Georgia , Alabama ...
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Page 463 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 219 - 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...
Page 219 - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon* military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 215 - 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 318 - 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 317 - Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great...
Page 113 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 149 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men...
Page 189 - Resolved, That the United States ought to co-operate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State, in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Page 114 - A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.