The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and DeathIncludes added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by F.B. Carpenter. |
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... United States be respectfully requested to inform this House- 1st . Whether the spot on which the blood of our citizens was shed , as in his messages declared , was or was not within the territory of Spain , at least after the treaty of ...
... United States be respectfully requested to inform this House- 1st . Whether the spot on which the blood of our citizens was shed , as in his messages declared , was or was not within the territory of Spain , at least after the treaty of ...
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... United States . " Then opened the roar of loose decla- mation in favor of " squatter sovereignty , " and " sacred right of self - gov- ernment . " " But , " said opposition members , " let us amend the bill so as to expressly declare ...
... United States . " Then opened the roar of loose decla- mation in favor of " squatter sovereignty , " and " sacred right of self - gov- ernment . " " But , " said opposition members , " let us amend the bill so as to expressly declare ...
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... United States . This point is made in order to deprive the negro , in every possible event , of the benefit of that provision of the United States Constitution , which declares that " The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all ...
... United States . This point is made in order to deprive the negro , in every possible event , of the benefit of that provision of the United States Constitution , which declares that " The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all ...
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... United States neither permits Congress nor a territorial legislature to exclude slavery from any United States Territory , they all omit to declare whether or not the same Constitution permits a State , or the people of a State , to ...
... United States neither permits Congress nor a territorial legislature to exclude slavery from any United States Territory , they all omit to declare whether or not the same Constitution permits a State , or the people of a State , to ...
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... United States Territory , in any lawful way , against the wish of any citizen of the United States , exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution ? Q. 3. If the Supreme Court of the United States shall ...
... United States Territory , in any lawful way , against the wish of any citizen of the United States , exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution ? Q. 3. If the Supreme Court of the United States shall ...
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Page 258 - States ; and the fact that. any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 260 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the parishes of St.
Page 162 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 50 - 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 258 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 258 - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 358 - 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 251 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
Page 229 - Resolved that the United States ought to co-operate with any state which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such state pecuniary aid, to be used by such state in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences public and private, produced by such change of system.
Page 241 - ... and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them and coming under the control of the Government of the United States...