Abraham Lincoln: The Man and the War President. Showing His Growth, Training, and Special Fitness for His Work |
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... command of young Allen Gentry , but would never return to the Ohio , for flatboats are built to go down with the stream and not for pulling against it . Abe's hour for travel and adventure had at last arrived 52 ABRAHAM LINCOLN ...
... command of young Allen Gentry , but would never return to the Ohio , for flatboats are built to go down with the stream and not for pulling against it . Abe's hour for travel and adventure had at last arrived 52 ABRAHAM LINCOLN ...
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... command , as if in any time of special trouble the leadership belonged to him . An empty boat was floated alongside , and the cargo was hoisted into it by main strength , until the grounded craft was sufficiently lightened to be set ...
... command , as if in any time of special trouble the leadership belonged to him . An empty boat was floated alongside , and the cargo was hoisted into it by main strength , until the grounded craft was sufficiently lightened to be set ...
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... command of her , by thunder , she would have to go ! " The remainder of the trip was much like any other flatboat voyage down the Mississippi ; but at New Orleans and else- where Abe received a repetition of his first lessons on slavery ...
... command of her , by thunder , she would have to go ! " The remainder of the trip was much like any other flatboat voyage down the Mississippi ; but at New Orleans and else- where Abe received a repetition of his first lessons on slavery ...
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... command of the forces , forbid- ding the discharge of firearms within fifty paces of the camp limits . A military order was nothing but the word of one man , and the prohibition must mean " fifty paces , more or less , " thought Captain ...
... command of the forces , forbid- ding the discharge of firearms within fifty paces of the camp limits . A military order was nothing but the word of one man , and the prohibition must mean " fifty paces , more or less , " thought Captain ...
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... command of Fort Moultrie , found himself compelled to transfer his small force , with such stores as he could easily move , to Fort Sumter , this being his sole tenable defense . He did so secretly , on the night of December 26 , only ...
... command of Fort Moultrie , found himself compelled to transfer his small force , with such stores as he could easily move , to Fort Sumter , this being his sole tenable defense . He did so secretly , on the night of December 26 , only ...
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Page 355 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 274 - 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, 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 proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Page 356 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 342 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 274 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans,) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...
Page 355 - 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 156 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 240 - 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 240 - ... approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United 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 ; and...
Page 381 - The question recurs, what will satisfy them? Simply this: We must not only let them alone, but we must, somehow, convince them that we do let them alone. This, we know by experience, is no easy task. We have been so trying to convince them, from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success. In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone; but this has had no tendency to convince them.