Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public ServicesB.B. Russell, 1865 - 216 pages |
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Page 44
... held for trial . As is too often the case , the bloody act caused an undue degree of excite- ment in the public mind . Every improper incident in the life of the prisoner , each act which bore the least semblance of rowdyism , each ...
... held for trial . As is too often the case , the bloody act caused an undue degree of excite- ment in the public mind . Every improper incident in the life of the prisoner , each act which bore the least semblance of rowdyism , each ...
Page 49
... held personal debates with each other without personal animosity on the dif ferent political views they held . Judge Douglas had the grace , at Springfield , to say , " I take great pleasure in bearing testimony to the fact that Mr ...
... held personal debates with each other without personal animosity on the dif ferent political views they held . Judge Douglas had the grace , at Springfield , to say , " I take great pleasure in bearing testimony to the fact that Mr ...
Page 70
... held out a great promise to all the people of the world in all time to come , I am exceedingly anxious that this Union , the Constitution , and the liberties of the people , shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for ...
... held out a great promise to all the people of the world in all time to come , I am exceedingly anxious that this Union , the Constitution , and the liberties of the people , shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for ...
Page 83
... held out to hands that would not receive it . Then came a pause after its utterance . It was the lull before the storm ; the portentous calm that precedes the burst of the tor- nado . " Since the close of the Revolutionary struggle , no ...
... held out to hands that would not receive it . Then came a pause after its utterance . It was the lull before the storm ; the portentous calm that precedes the burst of the tor- nado . " Since the close of the Revolutionary struggle , no ...
Page 93
... held fast by the hand of the people , and ' tracked his footsteps with even feet . ' ' His pulse's beat twined with their pulses . ' " * The war was , as we have said , a necessity , which the President accepted because he could not do ...
... held fast by the hand of the people , and ' tracked his footsteps with even feet . ' ' His pulse's beat twined with their pulses . ' " * The war was , as we have said , a necessity , which the President accepted because he could not do ...
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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.