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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... vote that he received in his own precinct , which gave him two hundred and seventy - seven votes out of two hundred and eighty - four cast ; and this , be it remembered , was the first and last time that he was ever beaten before the ...
... vote that he received in his own precinct , which gave him two hundred and seventy - seven votes out of two hundred and eighty - four cast ; and this , be it remembered , was the first and last time that he was ever beaten before the ...
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... vote for the Speakership , and was defeated by only one vote . In 1840 , for the fourth successive term , Mr. Lin- coln was returned to the legislature , and again received the vote of his party as the candidate for Speaker . Meanwhile ...
... vote for the Speakership , and was defeated by only one vote . In 1840 , for the fourth successive term , Mr. Lin- coln was returned to the legislature , and again received the vote of his party as the candidate for Speaker . Meanwhile ...
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... votes , he astonished himself and his friends by rolling up a major- ity of fifteen hundred and eleven . To add to the ... vote that Judge Douglas did . You can think as you please as to whether that was consistent . Such is the truth ...
... votes , he astonished himself and his friends by rolling up a major- ity of fifteen hundred and eleven . To add to the ... vote that Judge Douglas did . You can think as you please as to whether that was consistent . Such is the truth ...
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... vote that the war had been righteously begun , " he would not do it . He showed , in fact , on this point , the same clearness and directness , the same keen eye for the important point in a controversy , and the same tena- city in ...
... vote that the war had been righteously begun , " he would not do it . He showed , in fact , on this point , the same clearness and directness , the same keen eye for the important point in a controversy , and the same tena- city in ...
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... vote upon the side of freedom . He repeatedly recorded himself against laying on the table , without consideration , petitions in favor of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia , and 38 THE LIFE , PUBLIC SERVICES , AND.
... vote upon the side of freedom . He repeatedly recorded himself against laying on the table , without consideration , petitions in favor of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia , and 38 THE LIFE , PUBLIC SERVICES , AND.
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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...