Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. Showing the Inner Growth, Special Training, and Peculiar Fitness of the Man for His Work |
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... question but that the popular idea of Mr. LINCOLN's character is vague , fragmentary , and incomplete . His origin , growth , and development , his education and his ser- vices , rightly presented and understood , offer one of the ...
... question but that the popular idea of Mr. LINCOLN's character is vague , fragmentary , and incomplete . His origin , growth , and development , his education and his ser- vices , rightly presented and understood , offer one of the ...
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... Virginia - The Old Flag disappears from the South - White House Life - War - time Illusions - Studies of Future Battle - grounds - A Funeral in the East Room . 239 CHAPTER XXXI . THE EUROPEAN QUESTION , · The Secretary 8 CONTENTS .
... Virginia - The Old Flag disappears from the South - White House Life - War - time Illusions - Studies of Future Battle - grounds - A Funeral in the East Room . 239 CHAPTER XXXI . THE EUROPEAN QUESTION , · The Secretary 8 CONTENTS .
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... QUESTION , · The Secretary of State - England and France - Privateers and Piracy - The New Navy - Whaling Schooners as War Vessels . PAGE 248 CHAPTER XXXII . BULL RUN , Checker - board Campaign Plans - On to Richmond - The Two Armies ...
... QUESTION , · The Secretary of State - England and France - Privateers and Piracy - The New Navy - Whaling Schooners as War Vessels . PAGE 248 CHAPTER XXXII . BULL RUN , Checker - board Campaign Plans - On to Richmond - The Two Armies ...
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... question at any time ; and when , on special occasions or in cold weather , the luxury of shoes was to be indulged in , these were always of a low - quartered leather- saving pattern . All shoemaking among the settlers was done at home ...
... question at any time ; and when , on special occasions or in cold weather , the luxury of shoes was to be indulged in , these were always of a low - quartered leather- saving pattern . All shoemaking among the settlers was done at home ...
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... question of emigrating or not was as good as settled for the whole family . Dennis had now married the oldest daughter of Abe's good stepmother , and had made a sort of start in life for himself , so that he was in some degree an ...
... question of emigrating or not was as good as settled for the whole family . Dennis had now married the oldest daughter of Abe's good stepmother , and had made a sort of start in life for himself , so that he was in some degree an ...
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Page 465 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 449 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Page 368 - Commander-in-Chief of the army and 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...
Page 466 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 171 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 450 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 368 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the fortyeight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...
Page 465 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 336 - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 450 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years...