The Lincoln Memorial: Album-immortelles: Original Life Pictures, with Autographs, from the Hands and Hearts of Eminent Americans and Europeans, Contemporaries of the Great Martyr to Liberty, Abraham Lincoln. Together with Extracts from His Speeches, Letters and SayingsG. W. Carleton & Company, 1882 - 543 pages |
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... once endured , now to be endured no more forever , of his once naked and starving children , now clad and fed comfortably , of a wife , long weighed down with woe , weeping , and a broken heart , now restored to health , happiness and a ...
... once endured , now to be endured no more forever , of his once naked and starving children , now clad and fed comfortably , of a wife , long weighed down with woe , weeping , and a broken heart , now restored to health , happiness and a ...
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... once gained , you will find but little trouble in con- vincing his judgment of the justice of your cause , if , indeed , that cause really be a just one . On the contrary , assume to dictate to his judgment , or to command his action ...
... once gained , you will find but little trouble in con- vincing his judgment of the justice of your cause , if , indeed , that cause really be a just one . On the contrary , assume to dictate to his judgment , or to command his action ...
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... once more . For the man to suddenly , or in any other way , to break off from the use of drams , who has indulged in them for a long course of years , and until his appetite for them has grown ten or a hundred fold stronger and more ...
... once more . For the man to suddenly , or in any other way , to break off from the use of drams , who has indulged in them for a long course of years , and until his appetite for them has grown ten or a hundred fold stronger and more ...
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... once every year . sometimes about the 4th of July , for some reasons or other . These 4th of July gatherings I suppose have their uses . If you will indulge me , I will state what I suppose to be some of them . We are now a mighty ...
... once every year . sometimes about the 4th of July , for some reasons or other . These 4th of July gatherings I suppose have their uses . If you will indulge me , I will state what I suppose to be some of them . We are now a mighty ...
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... us discard all these things , and unite as one people through- out this land , until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal . M. C. MEIGS . III R. LINCOLN , to those 110 EXTRACT FROM MR . LINCOLN'S SPEECH .
... us discard all these things , and unite as one people through- out this land , until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal . M. C. MEIGS . III R. LINCOLN , to those 110 EXTRACT FROM MR . LINCOLN'S SPEECH .
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Page 222 - 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 is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery.
Page 365 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 102 - 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 365 - 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...
Page 340 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 254 - 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 304 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected.
Page 268 - Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
Page 226 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the public speeches of him who now addresses you.
Page 136 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now.