Abraham Lincoln: His Life, Public Services, Death and Great Funeral Cortege, with a History and Description of the National Lincoln Monument, with an AppendixH.W. Rokker, 1889 - 458 pages |
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... causes , he determined to sell his small estate and emigrate west of the Ohio river . The price he asked for his home was $ 300 . In the year 1816 he found a purchaser , by taking his pay princi- pally in whisky and a small amount of ...
... causes , he determined to sell his small estate and emigrate west of the Ohio river . The price he asked for his home was $ 300 . In the year 1816 he found a purchaser , by taking his pay princi- pally in whisky and a small amount of ...
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... cause . None of the five border States gave any assistance on the first call . Some of them answered with insolent threats and defiance . On the 19th of April , 1861 , being the 86th anniversary of the battle of Lexington ...
... cause . None of the five border States gave any assistance on the first call . Some of them answered with insolent threats and defiance . On the 19th of April , 1861 , being the 86th anniversary of the battle of Lexington ...
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... cause . As the year wore away , the necessity , as a war measure , for the eman- cipation of the slaves , was constantly pressed by army officers and others who were in advance of the mass of the people . Gen. McClellan , however ...
... cause . As the year wore away , the necessity , as a war measure , for the eman- cipation of the slaves , was constantly pressed by army officers and others who were in advance of the mass of the people . Gen. McClellan , however ...
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... cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ; that this nation , under God , shall have a new birth of free- dom , and that the government of the ...
... cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ; that this nation , under God , shall have a new birth of free- dom , and that the government of the ...
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... cause . The beginning of 1864 found the financial difficul- ties of the country most formidable , as the national currency had so far depreciated that it required $ 280 in currency to buy $ 100 in gold . Secretary Chase , of the ...
... cause . The beginning of 1864 found the financial difficul- ties of the country most formidable , as the national currency had so far depreciated that it required $ 280 in currency to buy $ 100 in gold . Secretary Chase , of the ...
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Abraham Lincoln April April 28 arch army arrived assassination assembled band bonfires Catacomb catafalque Chicago Church citizens Clinton L coffin coln colored Committee Conkling crowd Custodian death decorated depot draped in mourning Dubois elected Emancipation Proclamation escort fired flags flowers four friends funeral car funeral cortege funeral party funeral train Governor ground Guard of Honor half feet hearse hearse car heart hour House hundred Illinois inscription James Joseph Hooker ladies large number liberty Lincoln Monument Association martyred Mead Memorial Hall ment Minute guns morning mottoes National Lincoln Monument O. M. Hatch o'clock a. m. Oak Ridge Cemetery officers Oglesby Ohio passed patriot platform President Lincoln procession proclamation received Secretary Servius Tullius Sharon Tyndale side slave slavery soldiers solemn sorrow Springfield statue of Lincoln street Stuart thousand tion Union United Veteran Reserve Corps Washington wreath York
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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.