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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... things . He found great delight in helping any one in need . An old friend of Mr. Lincoln's , now living in Petersburg , Ill . , told me how he at one time was build- ing a house and was unable to make a brace fit . Mr. Lincoln happened ...
... things . He found great delight in helping any one in need . An old friend of Mr. Lincoln's , now living in Petersburg , Ill . , told me how he at one time was build- ing a house and was unable to make a brace fit . Mr. Lincoln happened ...
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... things , " There is a niche , near to that of Washington , to him who shall save his country . If Mr. Lincoln will step into that niche , the founder and the preserver of the Republic shall stand side by side . " Owen Lovejoy , the ...
... things , " There is a niche , near to that of Washington , to him who shall save his country . If Mr. Lincoln will step into that niche , the founder and the preserver of the Republic shall stand side by side . " Owen Lovejoy , the ...
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... thing alone remained to perfect , confirm , and make everlastingly permanent these measures , and this was to embody in the Constitution itself , the prohibition of slav- ery everywhere within the republic . To change the organic law ...
... thing alone remained to perfect , confirm , and make everlastingly permanent these measures , and this was to embody in the Constitution itself , the prohibition of slav- ery everywhere within the republic . To change the organic law ...
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... thing , but from the abuse of a very good thing . The victims of it were to be pitied and compassionated , just as are the heirs of consumption , and other hereditary diseases . Their failing was treated as a misfortune , and not as a ...
... thing , but from the abuse of a very good thing . The victims of it were to be pitied and compassionated , just as are the heirs of consumption , and other hereditary diseases . Their failing was treated as a misfortune , and not as a ...
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... thing . And besides this , the benefits of a reformation to be effected by such a system , were too remote in point of time , to warmly engage many in its behalf . Few can be induced to labor exclusively for pos- terity ; and none will ...
... thing . And besides this , the benefits of a reformation to be effected by such a system , were too remote in point of time , to warmly engage many in its behalf . Few can be induced to labor exclusively for pos- terity ; and none will ...
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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.