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... Field - Made Brigadier for Good Conduct at Bull Run - Commands the Eleventh Corps and Joins the Army at Chattanooga - His Services in the Army of the Potoinac - Extreme Calmness on the Field of Battle- Services with Sherman - Sherman's ...
... Field - Made Brigadier for Good Conduct at Bull Run - Commands the Eleventh Corps and Joins the Army at Chattanooga - His Services in the Army of the Potoinac - Extreme Calmness on the Field of Battle- Services with Sherman - Sherman's ...
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... fields . He was born in Kentucky , in 1809. At seven years At seven years of age he was set to work , axe in hand , to clear up a farm in a Western forest . Until he was seventeen his life was that of a simple farm laborer , with only ...
... fields . He was born in Kentucky , in 1809. At seven years At seven years of age he was set to work , axe in hand , to clear up a farm in a Western forest . Until he was seventeen his life was that of a simple farm laborer , with only ...
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... field , it was considered an unpopular and politically dangerous business for a lawyer to defend any fugitive slave on trial for surrender to the South , and even the brave Col. Baker , in those days also practicing there , on one ...
... field , it was considered an unpopular and politically dangerous business for a lawyer to defend any fugitive slave on trial for surrender to the South , and even the brave Col. Baker , in those days also practicing there , on one ...
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... field pretty early and pretty well prepared . It was in 1832 , when he was twenty - three years old , that his first candidacy and his first speech took place . The story and speech all together are so short that they can be inserted ...
... field pretty early and pretty well prepared . It was in 1832 , when he was twenty - three years old , that his first candidacy and his first speech took place . The story and speech all together are so short that they can be inserted ...
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... field , heart and soul against the plot to betray our territories into slavery , and to perpet- uate the power of that institution over the whole country . Henceforth he was all his life a public man ; first a prominent champion in the ...
... field , heart and soul against the plot to betray our territories into slavery , and to perpet- uate the power of that institution over the whole country . Henceforth he was all his life a public man ; first a prominent champion in the ...
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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.