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Page 33
... feeling , grave , gay , pathetic , passionate , en- thusiastic ; now rising with irresistible impetuosity , now mocking with gay and careless defiance , and with this voice and this person , he was master of all those shad- ings and ...
... feeling , grave , gay , pathetic , passionate , en- thusiastic ; now rising with irresistible impetuosity , now mocking with gay and careless defiance , and with this voice and this person , he was master of all those shad- ings and ...
Page 35
... feeling and emotion ; the house was as still as death . " And another account describes how " the effect of this speech was most magnetic and powerful . Cheer upon cheer interrupted him , women waved their handker- chiefs , men sprung ...
... feeling and emotion ; the house was as still as death . " And another account describes how " the effect of this speech was most magnetic and powerful . Cheer upon cheer interrupted him , women waved their handker- chiefs , men sprung ...
Page 37
... feeling himself that he was perfectly unprepared for the uprising of these sentiments on the part of the people , and astonished at the power which a man might wield simply from addressing a class of senti- ments which he habitually ...
... feeling himself that he was perfectly unprepared for the uprising of these sentiments on the part of the people , and astonished at the power which a man might wield simply from addressing a class of senti- ments which he habitually ...
Page 42
... feel- ing not only that he was marking out the place that his party must occupy in the coming struggle , but that in doing so he assumed the place of standard- bearer . He explained the doctrines of the Nebraska Act , and the Dred Scott ...
... feel- ing not only that he was marking out the place that his party must occupy in the coming struggle , but that in doing so he assumed the place of standard- bearer . He explained the doctrines of the Nebraska Act , and the Dred Scott ...
Page 43
... feels profoundly that his people are sound at heart , and will assuredly one day do full justice ; who proclaims in advance the eternal victory of the right side , and boldly calls on all who hear him to advance . up to the line of ...
... feels profoundly that his people are sound at heart , and will assuredly one day do full justice ; who proclaims in advance the eternal victory of the right side , and boldly calls on all who hear him to advance . up to the line of ...
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Page 40 - 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 80 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 78 - 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 81 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 66 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Page 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Page 71 - The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
Page 40 - 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 69 - 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 I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it.