Abraham LincolnHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - Presidents |
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... desire anywhere to be rid of it . All knew the answer to that ques- tion ; all knew that if the war was due to disunion , disunion in turn was due to slavery . Unless some makeshift peace should be quickly patched up , this basic cause ...
... desire anywhere to be rid of it . All knew the answer to that ques- tion ; all knew that if the war was due to disunion , disunion in turn was due to slavery . Unless some makeshift peace should be quickly patched up , this basic cause ...
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... desire to see the question , which had severed the country , disposed of by a process which would make possible a sincere and cordial reunion , may be only moderately surprising ; but it is most sur- prising to note the depth and ...
... desire to see the question , which had severed the country , disposed of by a process which would make possible a sincere and cordial reunion , may be only moderately surprising ; but it is most sur- prising to note the depth and ...
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... desire to know the will of Providence in this matter . And if I can learn what it is , I will do it ! These are not , however , the days of mira- cles , and I suppose it will be granted that I am not to expect a direct revelation . I ...
... desire to know the will of Providence in this matter . And if I can learn what it is , I will do it ! These are not , however , the days of mira- cles , and I suppose it will be granted that I am not to expect a direct revelation . I ...
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... desire ? Understand , I raise no objections against it on legal or constitutional grounds , for , as Commander - in - Chief of the Army and Navy , in time of war , I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the ...
... desire ? Understand , I raise no objections against it on legal or constitutional grounds , for , as Commander - in - Chief of the Army and Navy , in time of war , I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the ...
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John Torrey Morse. some such way as you desire . I have not decided against a proclamation of liberty to the slaves , but hold the matter under advisement . And I can assure you that the subject is on my mind , by day and night , more ...
John Torrey Morse. some such way as you desire . I have not decided against a proclamation of liberty to the slaves , but hold the matter under advisement . And I can assure you that the subject is on my mind , by day and night , more ...
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Page 128 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 314 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses 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 offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge...
Page 162 - ... the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared...
Page 129 - We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which,...
Page 102 - 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 107 - If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I " seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any ono in doubt.
Page 107 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to 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 259 - 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.
Page 144 - If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him?
Page 205 - You dislike the Emancipation Proclamation, and perhaps would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional. I think differently. I think the Constitution invests its commander-in-chief with the law of war in time of war. The most that can be said — if so much — is that slaves are property. Is there, has there ever been, any question that, by the law of war, property, both of enemies and friends, may be taken when needed? And is it not needed whenever taking it helps us or hurts the enemy...