Abraham Lincoln: His Life, Public Services, Death and Great Funeral Cortege, with a History of the National Lincoln Monument, with an AppendixH.W. Rokker, 1889 - 458 pages |
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... Hall , where they lay in state thirty - two hours , passing the Sabbath in this sanctuary of the Republic ; The dead President and the broken Bell ; the tide of people pouring through the hall to view the remains ; Funeral services in ...
... Hall , where they lay in state thirty - two hours , passing the Sabbath in this sanctuary of the Republic ; The dead President and the broken Bell ; the tide of people pouring through the hall to view the remains ; Funeral services in ...
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... Hall by the first company of " Wide Awakes " ever organized . He had an immense audience and produced a powerful impression . On the sixth of March he spoke at New Haven , on the seventh at Meriden , on the eighth at Woonsocket , Rhode ...
... Hall by the first company of " Wide Awakes " ever organized . He had an immense audience and produced a powerful impression . On the sixth of March he spoke at New Haven , on the seventh at Meriden , on the eighth at Woonsocket , Rhode ...
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... hall of the House of Representatives . He was then conducted to the western steps of the Capital , where he spoke a few words to the vast multitude , after which he was con- ducted to the mansion of Governor Dennison . In the evening he ...
... hall of the House of Representatives . He was then conducted to the western steps of the Capital , where he spoke a few words to the vast multitude , after which he was con- ducted to the mansion of Governor Dennison . In the evening he ...
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... Hall , where he was received by an address of welcome from Mayor Wood , which was responded to in fitting terms by Mr. Lincoln , both expressing the warmest patriotic sentiments . After the speeches a general hand - shak- ing ensued ...
... Hall , where he was received by an address of welcome from Mayor Wood , which was responded to in fitting terms by Mr. Lincoln , both expressing the warmest patriotic sentiments . After the speeches a general hand - shak- ing ensued ...
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... held between Mr. Lincoln and the detective , in the room of the lat- ter at the Continental Hotel . This was on the 21st . It had been arranged that Mr. Lincoln was to raise the American flag on Independence Hall the follow- ing morning.
... held between Mr. Lincoln and the detective , in the room of the lat- ter at the Continental Hotel . This was on the 21st . It had been arranged that Mr. Lincoln was to raise the American flag on Independence Hall the follow- ing morning.
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Page 309 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 56 - I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.' I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 83 - 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...
Page 83 - 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 64 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure We are met on a great battle-field of that war We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...
Page 320 - Now, my friends, can this country be saved on •that basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
Page 56 - ... 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 61 - Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression of the public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government.
Page 56 - 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 84 - Fondly do we hope, — fervently do we pray, — that this mighty scourge of war may soon pass away. Yet, If 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 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.