Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 8F. D. Tandy Company, 1905 - Illinois |
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Page xvi
... President for that term tersely promulgated the saying , " Kansas is as much a slave State as South Carolina or Geor- gia ; slavery , by virtue of the Constitution , exists in every Territory . " The municipal character of slavery being ...
... President for that term tersely promulgated the saying , " Kansas is as much a slave State as South Carolina or Geor- gia ; slavery , by virtue of the Constitution , exists in every Territory . " The municipal character of slavery being ...
Page xxi
... President of America . He measured the difficulty of the duty that devolved upon him , and was resolved to fulfil it . As on the eleventh of February , 1851 , he left Springfield , which for a quarter of a cen- tury had been his happy ...
... President of America . He measured the difficulty of the duty that devolved upon him , and was resolved to fulfil it . As on the eleventh of February , 1851 , he left Springfield , which for a quarter of a cen- tury had been his happy ...
Page xxii
... of night to escape as- sassination , Lincoln arrived at Washington nine days before his inauguration . The outgoing President , at the opening of the session of Con- gress , had still kept as the majority of his xxii The Life and Character.
... of night to escape as- sassination , Lincoln arrived at Washington nine days before his inauguration . The outgoing President , at the opening of the session of Con- gress , had still kept as the majority of his xxii The Life and Character.
Page xxiv
... President informed Congress that " matters were still worse ; " that " the South suffered serious griev- ances , " which should be redressed " in peace . " The day after this message the flag of the Union was fired upon from Fort Morris ...
... President informed Congress that " matters were still worse ; " that " the South suffered serious griev- ances , " which should be redressed " in peace . " The day after this message the flag of the Union was fired upon from Fort Morris ...
Page xxv
... President , speaking to the people on taking the oath of office , put aside every question that divided the country , and gained a right to universal support by planting himself on the single idea of Union . The Union he declared to be ...
... President , speaking to the people on taking the oath of office , put aside every question that divided the country , and gained a right to universal support by planting himself on the single idea of Union . The Union he declared to be ...
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Page 156 - Portsmouth and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid i do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free and that the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...
Page 155 - States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly...
Page 37 - States, and the people thereof, in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed. That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all...
Page 39 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : SEC.
Page 16 - 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 save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 162 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 116 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution...
Page 39 - States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the Government of the United States...
Page x - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 163 - ... 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.