Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2Houghton Mifflin, 1893 |
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... close to the surface to be long suppressed lay the demand that those who declared the Union to be the sole issue should explain how it came about that the Union was put in issue at all , why there was any dissatisfaction with it , and ...
... close to the surface to be long suppressed lay the demand that those who declared the Union to be the sole issue should explain how it came about that the Union was put in issue at all , why there was any dissatisfaction with it , and ...
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... close upon nothing . Then he led his pursuers a fruitless chase towards the head of the valley , continuing to neutralize a force many times larger than his own , and which could and ought to have been at this very time doing fatal work ...
... close upon nothing . Then he led his pursuers a fruitless chase towards the head of the valley , continuing to neutralize a force many times larger than his own , and which could and ought to have been at this very time doing fatal work ...
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... close it upon Jackson and 15,000 men . The result of this civilian strategy was that Mc- Clellan , with his projects shattered , was left with his right wing and rear dangerously exposed . Jackson remained for a while a mysterious bête ...
... close it upon Jackson and 15,000 men . The result of this civilian strategy was that Mc- Clellan , with his projects shattered , was left with his right wing and rear dangerously exposed . Jackson remained for a while a mysterious bête ...
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... close in your rear , and crossing your line of communication . Please look to it . " This curt prompting on so obvious a point was a plain insinuation against McClellan's military compe- tence , and suggests that ceaseless harassment ...
... close in your rear , and crossing your line of communication . Please look to it . " This curt prompting on so obvious a point was a plain insinuation against McClellan's military compe- tence , and suggests that ceaseless harassment ...
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... close of this appalling week , the troops at last were conquerors on the banks of the James , they were in a position not permanently tenable , and before they could rest , they had to fall back another march to Harrison's Landing . The ...
... close of this appalling week , the troops at last were conquerors on the banks of the James , they were in a position not permanently tenable , and before they could rest , they had to fall back another march to Harrison's Landing . The ...
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Page 129 - We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.
Page 192 - Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
Page 107 - If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I " seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any ono in doubt.
Page 231 - I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let in — as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks.
Page 107 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 259 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 205 - You dislike the Emancipation Proclamation, and perhaps would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional. I think differently. I think the Constitution invests its commander-in-chief with the law of war in time of war. The most that can be said — if so much — is that slaves are property. Is there, has there ever been, any question that, by the law of war, property, both of enemies and friends, may be taken when needed? And is it not needed whenever taking it helps us or hurts the enemy...
Page 293 - I am thankful to God for this approval of the people; but, while deeply grateful for this mark of their confidence in me, if I know my heart, my gratitude is free from any taint of personal triumph. I do not impugn the motives of any one opposed to me. It is no pleasure to me to triumph over any one, but I give thanks to the Almighty for this evidence of the people's resolution to stand by free government and the rights of humanity.
Page 101 - I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel, and yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.
Page 144 - In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.