Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and Speeches in and Out of Congress; Also, a General View of His Policy as President of the United States; with His Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., and a History of His Eventful Administration, and of the Scenes Attendant Upon His Tragic and Lamented Demise |
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From the borders , in various directions , hundreds of miles away , emigration had now begun . These recruits were from that class of hardy frontiersmen most inured to the kind of toils they were to encounter anew in the Kentucky ...
From the borders , in various directions , hundreds of miles away , emigration had now begun . These recruits were from that class of hardy frontiersmen most inured to the kind of toils they were to encounter anew in the Kentucky ...
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As one who had his own sub - istence to earn , with no capital but his hands , and with no immediate opportunities for commencing professional study , if his thoughts had as yet been turned in that direction , he accepted the ...
As one who had his own sub - istence to earn , with no capital but his hands , and with no immediate opportunities for commencing professional study , if his thoughts had as yet been turned in that direction , he accepted the ...
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As one who had his own sub - sistence to earn , with no capital but his hands , and with no inmediate opportunities for commencing professional study , if his thoughts had as yet been turned in that direction , he accepted the ...
As one who had his own sub - sistence to earn , with no capital but his hands , and with no inmediate opportunities for commencing professional study , if his thoughts had as yet been turned in that direction , he accepted the ...
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Here eighteen hundred men were speedily assembled , under the direction of the Governor . The forces were organized into four regiments , with an additional spy battalion . Gen. Samuel Whiteside , of the State militia , who had ...
Here eighteen hundred men were speedily assembled , under the direction of the Governor . The forces were organized into four regiments , with an additional spy battalion . Gen. Samuel Whiteside , of the State militia , who had ...
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Atkinson , of the regular army , were at - length put in motion , detachments being sent out in different directions . A severe fight was had at Kellogg's Grove , in the midst of the Indian country , on the 25th of June , resulting in ...
Atkinson , of the regular army , were at - length put in motion , detachments being sent out in different directions . A severe fight was had at Kellogg's Grove , in the midst of the Indian country , on the 25th of June , resulting in ...
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Page 200 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 207 - Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Page 140 - 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 205 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 427 - Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 744 - 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. The prayers of both could not be answered — that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe to that man...
Page 120 - But if the Negro is a man, is it not to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government— that is despotism. If the Negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal," and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
Page 215 - Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon, the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 744 - South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? 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...
Page 78 - Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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| Title | Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and Speeches in and Out of Congress; Also, a General View of His Policy as President of the United States; with His Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., and a History of His Eventful Administration, and of the Scenes ... Core collection HeinOnline: Core collection HeinOnline: U.S. presidential library PCMI collection Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law Spinelli's law library reference shelf U.S. presidential library |
| Author | Joseph Hartwell Barrett |
| Publisher | Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1865 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Jun 2007 |
| ISBN | 0827429177, 9780827429178 |
| Length | 842 pages |
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