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... and wither the great original tree . The late war was the outcome of the whole . The fierce fire into which our national character has been cast in the hour of trial , 1 PREFACE . vii has burned out of it the last vi PREFACE .
... and wither the great original tree . The late war was the outcome of the whole . The fierce fire into which our national character has been cast in the hour of trial , 1 PREFACE . vii has burned out of it the last vi PREFACE .
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... hour of her victory . It will be found when the sum of all these biographies is added up that the qualities which have won this great physical and moral vic- tory have not been so much exceptional gifts of genius or culture , as those ...
... hour of her victory . It will be found when the sum of all these biographies is added up that the qualities which have won this great physical and moral vic- tory have not been so much exceptional gifts of genius or culture , as those ...
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... hour or two . " The cashier handed across the money to " Honest Abe , " and without a scratch of the pen in acknowledgment , he strode his way with the money , all in the most sa- cred simplicity , made the tender , and brought it back ...
... hour or two . " The cashier handed across the money to " Honest Abe , " and without a scratch of the pen in acknowledgment , he strode his way with the money , all in the most sa- cred simplicity , made the tender , and brought it back ...
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... hour sworn to on the night sworn to the moon had not risen ; that the whole of this evidence was a perjury . The audience , gradually stirred and changed in the temper of their minds by the previous series of skil- fully displayed ...
... hour sworn to on the night sworn to the moon had not risen ; that the whole of this evidence was a perjury . The audience , gradually stirred and changed in the temper of their minds by the previous series of skil- fully displayed ...
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... hour the jury re- turned a verdict of not guilty , and the young man was set free , his life saved and his character restored . When he went for the second time into public life , on the passage of the Nebraska Bill in 1854 , he was ...
... hour the jury re- turned a verdict of not guilty , and the young man was set free , his life saved and his character restored . When he went for the second time into public life , on the passage of the Nebraska Bill in 1854 , he was ...
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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.