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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... feet ten and a - half inches high . From his circumstances and surroundings he was compelled to dress plainly , but he was a man who was respected by all who knew him . Mrs. Lincoln was quite tall , being five feet five inches high ...
... feet ten and a - half inches high . From his circumstances and surroundings he was compelled to dress plainly , but he was a man who was respected by all who knew him . Mrs. Lincoln was quite tall , being five feet five inches high ...
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... feet on a level . Then came a rain , with weather so cold that it froze as it fell , forming a crust of ice over this three feet of snow , nearly if not quite strong enough to bear a man , and finally , over this crust of ice there was ...
... feet on a level . Then came a rain , with weather so cold that it froze as it fell , forming a crust of ice over this three feet of snow , nearly if not quite strong enough to bear a man , and finally , over this crust of ice there was ...
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... feet , but their com- bined height was exactly fifty - four feet . None were taller than Abraham Lincoln . The statement written by himself , in December , 1859 , at the request of Hon . Jesse W. Fell , of Bloomington , contains this ...
... feet , but their com- bined height was exactly fifty - four feet . None were taller than Abraham Lincoln . The statement written by himself , in December , 1859 , at the request of Hon . Jesse W. Fell , of Bloomington , contains this ...
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... feet and gave three cheers . After adopting a platform and transacting all other business , a resolution was brought forward and unanimously adopted on the 17th , " that Hon . Abraham Lincoln is our first and only choice for United ...
... feet and gave three cheers . After adopting a platform and transacting all other business , a resolution was brought forward and unanimously adopted on the 17th , " that Hon . Abraham Lincoln is our first and only choice for United ...
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... feet trod the pavements of the rebel capital , and he held a levee in the mansion just evacuated by the rebel President , who was then a fugitive , with $ 100 , - 000 offered as a reward for his arrest . On the ninth of April the whole ...
... feet trod the pavements of the rebel capital , and he held a levee in the mansion just evacuated by the rebel President , who was then a fugitive , with $ 100 , - 000 offered as a reward for his arrest . On the ninth of April the whole ...
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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.