Abraham LincolnHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - Presidents |
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... reason to suppose that he did not still hold , as he had done in the days of the Douglas debates , that it was undesir- able , if not impossible , that the two races should endeavor to abide together in freedom as a unified community ...
... reason to suppose that he did not still hold , as he had done in the days of the Douglas debates , that it was undesir- able , if not impossible , that the two races should endeavor to abide together in freedom as a unified community ...
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... reasons which would press the Border States to accept the opportunity extended to them . " If resistance continues , the war must also continue ; and it is impossible to foresee all the incidents which may attend , and all the ruin ...
... reasons which would press the Border States to accept the opportunity extended to them . " If resistance continues , the war must also continue ; and it is impossible to foresee all the incidents which may attend , and all the ruin ...
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... reasons which he urged were as fol- lows : " Believing that you of the Border States hold more power for good than any other equal number of members , I felt it a duty which I cannot justi- fiably waive to make this appeal to you . " I ...
... reasons which he urged were as fol- lows : " Believing that you of the Border States hold more power for good than any other equal number of members , I felt it a duty which I cannot justi- fiably waive to make this appeal to you . " I ...
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... reason than heretofore . But with or against reason it was easy to see that he was far from rest- ing in the tranquillity of conviction that Washing- ton could never be so safe as when the army of Virginia was far away upon the ...
... reason than heretofore . But with or against reason it was easy to see that he was far from rest- ing in the tranquillity of conviction that Washing- ton could never be so safe as when the army of Virginia was far away upon the ...
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... reasons , " out of his inexhaustible reservoir of such commo- dities . It was unfortunate that the naval coöper- ation ... reason - giving . · Precisely at this point came into operation the fatal effect of the lack of understanding ...
... reasons , " out of his inexhaustible reservoir of such commo- dities . It was unfortunate that the naval coöper- ation ... reason - giving . · Precisely at this point came into operation the fatal effect of the lack of understanding ...
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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...