Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public ServicesB.B. Russell, 1865 - 216 pages |
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Page 17
... appearance of the book was ruined . How could he face the owner under such circumstances ? He had no money to offer as a return ; but he took the book , went directly to Mr. Crawford , showed him the irreparable injury , and frankly and ...
... appearance of the book was ruined . How could he face the owner under such circumstances ? He had no money to offer as a return ; but he took the book , went directly to Mr. Crawford , showed him the irreparable injury , and frankly and ...
Page 20
... appearance was in keeping with his humble home . He was arrayed in buckskin clothes , with a raccoon - skin cap , and carried an old arithmetic , which had been in- dustriously sought for his benefit . " His progress was rapid , and his ...
... appearance was in keeping with his humble home . He was arrayed in buckskin clothes , with a raccoon - skin cap , and carried an old arithmetic , which had been in- dustriously sought for his benefit . " His progress was rapid , and his ...
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... appearance . He can neither read nor write . He says that his cousin Dennis F. Hanks taught " little Abe " his letters . The log- cabin above mentioned has no windows ; but a half sheet of paper oiled , placed in a sort of wooden ...
... appearance . He can neither read nor write . He says that his cousin Dennis F. Hanks taught " little Abe " his letters . The log- cabin above mentioned has no windows ; but a half sheet of paper oiled , placed in a sort of wooden ...
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... appearance of having been weather - beaten , complete the description . " In his personal habits , Mr. Lincoln is simple as a child . He loves a good dinner , and eats with the appetite which goes with a great brain ; but his food is ...
... appearance of having been weather - beaten , complete the description . " In his personal habits , Mr. Lincoln is simple as a child . He loves a good dinner , and eats with the appetite which goes with a great brain ; but his food is ...
Page 77
... appearance . The troops stationed at the City Hall and Willard's Hotel became objects of attrac- tion to vast numbers of both sexes . At noon the Senate Committee called upon President Buchanan , who pro- ceeded with them to Willard's ...
... appearance . The troops stationed at the City Hall and Willard's Hotel became objects of attrac- tion to vast numbers of both sexes . At noon the Senate Committee called upon President Buchanan , who pro- ceeded with them to Willard's ...
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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.