Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public ServicesB.B. Russell, 1865 - 216 pages |
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... United States was born in obscurity . No Gabriel heralded his birth ; no shepherds saw the star of his nativity , and heard the chanting of celestial visitants to earth ; nor did sages and philosophers come to his cradle - side with ...
... United States was born in obscurity . No Gabriel heralded his birth ; no shepherds saw the star of his nativity , and heard the chanting of celestial visitants to earth ; nor did sages and philosophers come to his cradle - side with ...
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... United States , and to be Commander - in - Chief of the Union Army . Before the death of his mother , the future director of the greatest army the world ever saw was taught the use of fire - arms ; and it is worthy of note that the ...
... United States , and to be Commander - in - Chief of the Union Army . Before the death of his mother , the future director of the greatest army the world ever saw was taught the use of fire - arms ; and it is worthy of note that the ...
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... united the votes of all parties in his precinct , that he received every vote but seven out of two hundred and eighty - four ; and though he was defeated in the district at large , it was the only occasion in which he failed in such an ...
... united the votes of all parties in his precinct , that he received every vote but seven out of two hundred and eighty - four ; and though he was defeated in the district at large , it was the only occasion in which he failed in such an ...
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... United - States Senate . Mr. Douglas was his rival on the Democratic ticket . Both stumped the State , and finally held personal debates with each other without personal animosity on the dif ferent political views they held . Judge ...
... United - States Senate . Mr. Douglas was his rival on the Democratic ticket . Both stumped the State , and finally held personal debates with each other without personal animosity on the dif ferent political views they held . Judge ...
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... United States should merely hold and retake its own forts and other property , and collect the duties on foreign importations , or even with- hold the mails from places where they were habitually violated , would any or all of these ...
... United States should merely hold and retake its own forts and other property , and collect the duties on foreign importations , or even with- hold the mails from places where they were habitually violated , would any or all of these ...
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Page 146 - 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 57 - Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren; and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward.
Page 146 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Page 97 - By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation.
Page 192 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 142 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united 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 142 - St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina...
Page 124 - I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the government.
Page 141 - 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 121 - 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. In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the National authority.