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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... known little of any other kind of existence than that to which he had been educated as an adventurous frontiersman . The severe labor of preparing the heavily - timbered lands of Shenandoah for cultivation , the wild delights of hunting ...
... known little of any other kind of existence than that to which he had been educated as an adventurous frontiersman . The severe labor of preparing the heavily - timbered lands of Shenandoah for cultivation , the wild delights of hunting ...
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... known whatever was worst in the trials and penury of the first generation of Kentucky frontiersmen , with few other enjoyments than an occasional practice with his rifle . His training was suited to develop a strong , muscular frame ...
... known whatever was worst in the trials and penury of the first generation of Kentucky frontiersmen , with few other enjoyments than an occasional practice with his rifle . His training was suited to develop a strong , muscular frame ...
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... known to be in existence in the neighborhood . Before he had finished reading the book , it had been left , by a not unnatural oversight , in a window . Meantime , a rain storm came on , and the book was so thoroughly wet as to make it ...
... known to be in existence in the neighborhood . Before he had finished reading the book , it had been left , by a not unnatural oversight , in a window . Meantime , a rain storm came on , and the book was so thoroughly wet as to make it ...
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... known him , even in his obscurest days , will be deemed a cir- cumstance to be recounted with pride . To gather up such recollections and to perpetuate them with the pen , will be the work of future times and other hands . This period ...
... known him , even in his obscurest days , will be deemed a cir- cumstance to be recounted with pride . To gather up such recollections and to perpetuate them with the pen , will be the work of future times and other hands . This period ...
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... known , the settlements here , in common with those scattered throughout the great expanse of United States territory , north - west of the Ohio river , were brought under a territorial government , as wide in its local scope as it was ...
... known , the settlements here , in common with those scattered throughout the great expanse of United States territory , north - west of the Ohio river , were brought under a territorial government , as wide in its local scope as it was ...
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Page 190 - 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 197 - 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 130 - 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 195 - 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 417 - 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 735 - 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 112 - 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 207 - 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 735 - 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 70 - 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.