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... army was once in the field , Lincoln was , however , ready to give his Congres- sional vote for the fullest and most energetic sup- port . A year or more later , he worked actively for the election of General Taylor . He took the ground ...
... army was once in the field , Lincoln was , however , ready to give his Congres- sional vote for the fullest and most energetic sup- port . A year or more later , he worked actively for the election of General Taylor . He took the ground ...
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... army affairs . He showed , however , exceptional ability , great will power , and an enormous capacity for work . He was ambitious , self - willed , and most arbitrary in deed and in speech . The difficulty with Stanton was that he was ...
... army affairs . He showed , however , exceptional ability , great will power , and an enormous capacity for work . He was ambitious , self - willed , and most arbitrary in deed and in speech . The difficulty with Stanton was that he was ...
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... army and the navy . At the close of the War , the government , after meeting this expenditure , had a national war debt of some- thing over four thousand millions of dollars . The gross indebtedness resulting from the War was of course ...
... army and the navy . At the close of the War , the government , after meeting this expenditure , had a national war debt of some- thing over four thousand millions of dollars . The gross indebtedness resulting from the War was of course ...
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... army . I was amused to see my father make payment in the restaurant for my first lunch in postage stamps . He picked the requisite number , or the number that he believed would be requisite , from a ball of stamps which had , under the ...
... army . I was amused to see my father make payment in the restaurant for my first lunch in postage stamps . He picked the requisite number , or the number that he believed would be requisite , from a ball of stamps which had , under the ...
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... army , reaching the rank of Major - General . The Blair family was quite ready to fight for the Union , but was very unwilling to do any fighting for the black man . They wanted the Union restored as it had been , Missouri Com- promise ...
... army , reaching the rank of Major - General . The Blair family was quite ready to fight for the Union , but was very unwilling to do any fighting for the black man . They wanted the Union restored as it had been , Missouri Com- promise ...
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Page 270 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 152 - ... but I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
Page 170 - 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?
Page 284 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Page 269 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions, are erected ; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions, and governments, which forever hereafter shall he formed in the said Territory...
Page 128 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 265 - If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it are themselves wrong, and should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality, its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension, its enlargement. All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong.
Page 261 - Also, it would be open to show, by contemporaneous history, that this mode of alluding to slaves and slavery, instead of speaking of them, was employed on purpose to exclude from the Constitution the idea that there could be property in man. To show all this is easy and certain. When this obvious mistake of the judges shall be brought to their notice, is it not reasonable to expect that they will withdraw the mistaken statement, and reconsider the conclusion based upon it ? And then it is to be remembered...
Page 239 - Confederation; and two more of the "thirtynine" who afterward signed the Constitution were in that Congress, and voted on the question. They were William Blount and William Few; and they both voted for the prohibition — thus showing that in their understanding no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything else, properly forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory.
Page 171 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman'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 by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.