Abraham Lincoln as a Man of LettersReilly & Britton Company, 1918 - 342 pages |
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... maintained two cardinal doc- trines which Douglas never successfully combated , around which the sentiment of the nation opposed to slavery consolidated as the basis of the new Re- publican party . These doctrines were : I. That the ...
... maintained two cardinal doc- trines which Douglas never successfully combated , around which the sentiment of the nation opposed to slavery consolidated as the basis of the new Re- publican party . These doctrines were : I. That the ...
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... maintaining that events indicated a " preconcert " of Douglas and other Democratic leaders to nationalize slavery . These events were " compounded of the Nebraska doctrine and the Dred Scott decision . " Only another Supreme Court ...
... maintaining that events indicated a " preconcert " of Douglas and other Democratic leaders to nationalize slavery . These events were " compounded of the Nebraska doctrine and the Dred Scott decision . " Only another Supreme Court ...
Page 64
... maintained that Lin- coln , by arguing against the Dred Scott decision , was disloyal to the Supreme Court . His answer to Lin- coln's interrogatory disclosed to his Southern sup- porters that he likewise was an impossible exponent of ...
... maintained that Lin- coln , by arguing against the Dred Scott decision , was disloyal to the Supreme Court . His answer to Lin- coln's interrogatory disclosed to his Southern sup- porters that he likewise was an impossible exponent of ...
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... maintaining that Lincoln stood for dead uniformity of institutions in a country whose diversity of climate and resources called for variegation in laws and social organiza- tion . He believed that the Government and its cit- izenship ...
... maintaining that Lincoln stood for dead uniformity of institutions in a country whose diversity of climate and resources called for variegation in laws and social organiza- tion . He believed that the Government and its cit- izenship ...
Page 85
... maintained that Douglas's assumption was false . He held there was no necessary conflict between the white man and the negro , that there was " room enough for us all to be free , " and that " the mass of white men are really injured by ...
... maintained that Douglas's assumption was false . He held there was no necessary conflict between the white man and the negro , that there was " room enough for us all to be free , " and that " the mass of white men are really injured by ...
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Page 277 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 153 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men ; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders ; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life.
Page 303 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 269 - 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.0
Page 174 - 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 battlefield 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. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 225 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 197 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain.
Page 276 - ... commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred...
Page 262 - 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 86 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.