The Table Talk of Abraham LincolnF.A. Stokes Company, 1894 - 154 pages Donated by Carl W. Schaefer. |
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... July 4th , 1861. " Congress had definitely adjourned . There was no time to convene them . It became necessary for me to choose whether , using only the existing means , agencies and processes , which Con- gress had provided , I should ...
... July 4th , 1861. " Congress had definitely adjourned . There was no time to convene them . It became necessary for me to choose whether , using only the existing means , agencies and processes , which Con- gress had provided , I should ...
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... JULY 4 , 1861 . " And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States . It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a consti- " · tutional republic or democracy - a government of Table Talk . 19.
... JULY 4 , 1861 . " And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States . It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a consti- " · tutional republic or democracy - a government of Table Talk . 19.
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... JULY 27 , 1862 . " I shall not do more than I can , but I shall do all I can to save the government , which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination . I shall do nothing in malice . What I deal with is too vast for malicious ...
... JULY 27 , 1862 . " I shall not do more than I can , but I shall do all I can to save the government , which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination . I shall do nothing in malice . What I deal with is too vast for malicious ...
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... of his own . Much more should a good spirit - the spirit of the Con- stitution and the Union - take care of its own . I think it cannot do : less and live . " LETTER TO REVERDY JOHNSON , JULY 26 , 1862 . Table Talk . 23.
... of his own . Much more should a good spirit - the spirit of the Con- stitution and the Union - take care of its own . I think it cannot do : less and live . " LETTER TO REVERDY JOHNSON , JULY 26 , 1862 . Table Talk . 23.
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... JULY 26 , 1862 . " I am a patient man — always will- ing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance , and also to give ample time for repentance . Still , I must save this government , if possi- ble . What I cannot do , of course I ...
... JULY 26 , 1862 . " I am a patient man — always will- ing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance , and also to give ample time for repentance . Still , I must save this government , if possi- ble . What I cannot do , of course I ...
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Page 1 - 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...
Page 138 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or 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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 11 - 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 124 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of these offences, which in the providence of 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 offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 4 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 136 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 72 - I hold that notwithstanding all this there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Page 46 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence, which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.
Page 124 - 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 bondman'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 with 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 35 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.