Life of Abraham Lincoln: For the Young Man and the Sabbath SchoolWestern Tract and Book Society, 1868 - 200 pages |
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... nights spent till bedtime around the great " fire - place " cracking them and telling Indian and bear stories while the icy winds were tossing the snow drifts without . Little is known of his ancestry , and that little does not extend ...
... nights spent till bedtime around the great " fire - place " cracking them and telling Indian and bear stories while the icy winds were tossing the snow drifts without . Little is known of his ancestry , and that little does not extend ...
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... Night came upon him , and foot - sore and weary , he sought a place to rest . Finding a little tree he lay down and placed his feet up against it , as they ached less while raised higher than his body . He heard the wolves howling in ...
... Night came upon him , and foot - sore and weary , he sought a place to rest . Finding a little tree he lay down and placed his feet up against it , as they ached less while raised higher than his body . He heard the wolves howling in ...
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... sport it was to fire the brush - heaps at night ! How the flames leaped and crackled , the great trees suddenly standing out from the darkness with EARLY SCENES . 15 shadows swaying like phantoms in a 14 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... sport it was to fire the brush - heaps at night ! How the flames leaped and crackled , the great trees suddenly standing out from the darkness with EARLY SCENES . 15 shadows swaying like phantoms in a 14 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... night , and the book was soaked through and ruined . Little Abe's grief and self - reproach knew no bounds at the discovery of this disaster . But he took up the book and went straight to the owner , showed him its condition , and ...
... night , and the book was soaked through and ruined . Little Abe's grief and self - reproach knew no bounds at the discovery of this disaster . But he took up the book and went straight to the owner , showed him its condition , and ...
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... night with two companions , from a debating society , they found an incorrigible toper , well known in the neighborhood , lying drunk upon the snow . His companions proposed to let him lie there , as he was worthless and past ...
... night with two companions , from a debating society , they found an incorrigible toper , well known in the neighborhood , lying drunk upon the snow . His companions proposed to let him lie there , as he was worthless and past ...
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Abraham Lincoln afterward Almighty American civil war army assassin battle became BLACK HAWK WAR bless broken fetters cabin called cast cause CHAPTER Christian coln confidence death defeat Douglas Dred Scott election Executive Government eyes father Ford's Theater freedmen freedom friends God's Government hand heart honesty honor hope human hundred thousand Illinois James Buchanan Jesus justice knew labor land lawyer liberty LINCOLN AND SLAVERY Lincoln replied LINCOLN STORIES little Abe lived looked Lord McClellan ment mind moral mother named nation neighbors never night ox-wagon pardon party passed patriot pleasure political Pres President principle pro-slavery rebel rebellion Republican RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE river Sangamon River Savior seized slave power slaves soldiers sorrow sought spirit Springfield success tears theater tion toil took traitorous triumph truth Union Union armies woods young
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Page 147 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free ; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Page 148 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 154 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.
Page 88 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 149 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 156 - To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received and considered by the Executive Government of the United States, and will be met by liberal terms on other substantial and collateral points; and the bearer or bearers thereof shall have safe conduct both ways. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Page 150 - 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 piled by the bondman'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 with another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, ' The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 85 - No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of WASHINGTON.
Page 116 - The hand of the king that the scepter hath borne, The brow of the priest, that the mitre hath worn, The eye of the sage and the heart of the brave Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave.
Page 111 - The President, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the military and naval service. The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the divine will demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity.