Abraham LincolnE.A. Wilson & Company, 1873 - 352 pages |
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... present old truths in a new and attractive dress , to divest the subject of all irrelevant and re- dundant matter , and give a concise and connected ac- count of the life , public services and tragic death of the wonderful man whose ...
... present old truths in a new and attractive dress , to divest the subject of all irrelevant and re- dundant matter , and give a concise and connected ac- count of the life , public services and tragic death of the wonderful man whose ...
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... Present membership of the Association ; Exec- utive Committce . CHAPTER XXVIII .. Appropriation of ten thousand dollars by the State of New York ; Special Committee visit Chicago , and un- expectedly receive proposals to furnish the ...
... Present membership of the Association ; Exec- utive Committce . CHAPTER XXVIII .. Appropriation of ten thousand dollars by the State of New York ; Special Committee visit Chicago , and un- expectedly receive proposals to furnish the ...
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... present time . The studies were confined to spelling , reading , writ- ing and arithmetic . Grammar and geography were unknown . Such a thing as a dictionary was seldom or never seen by any person connected with the schools . The books ...
... present time . The studies were confined to spelling , reading , writ- ing and arithmetic . Grammar and geography were unknown . Such a thing as a dictionary was seldom or never seen by any person connected with the schools . The books ...
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... present town of Gentryville , in the same county . He left his goods in the care of a settler , and returned to the river , and after crossing it , proceeded on foot to his Kentucky home , taking as near a straight course as possible ...
... present town of Gentryville , in the same county . He left his goods in the care of a settler , and returned to the river , and after crossing it , proceeded on foot to his Kentucky home , taking as near a straight course as possible ...
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... present when Abraham Lincoln visited his step - mother soon after he was elected President , in the fall of 1860 , and gave to the writer a description of the parting scene , which , if truly portrayed , would se- cure fame to the ...
... present when Abraham Lincoln visited his step - mother soon after he was elected President , in the fall of 1860 , and gave to the writer a description of the parting scene , which , if truly portrayed , would se- cure fame to the ...
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Popular passages
Page 77 - 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 G-od'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 77 - The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
Page 78 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, — let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his...
Page 230 - 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 by 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 50 - 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 50 - ... own framing under it ; while the new administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulties.
Page 78 - ... 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...
Page 77 - Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Page 280 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 77 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation.