Abraham Lincoln: His Youth and Early Manhood, with a Brief Account of His Later LifeG. P. Putnam's sons, 1901 - 204 pages |
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... question of roads or trails , the school - tax , a bounty on wolves or bears ; or he got up mock trials , arraigned imaginary culprits , and himself acted as prosecuting attorney , counsel for the defendant , judge , and foreman of the ...
... question of roads or trails , the school - tax , a bounty on wolves or bears ; or he got up mock trials , arraigned imaginary culprits , and himself acted as prosecuting attorney , counsel for the defendant , judge , and foreman of the ...
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... questions of the speaker while he was in full tide of his address . coln always answered these queries , when they were not impertinent , with ready good - humor and generally with what was called " an actual settler of an argu- ment ...
... questions of the speaker while he was in full tide of his address . coln always answered these queries , when they were not impertinent , with ready good - humor and generally with what was called " an actual settler of an argu- ment ...
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... questions of the day , and fully competent to hold his own with the gen- eral run of debaters on the stump , or in the Legislature . He had mastered the elementary law - books , was familiar with legal phrases and forms , knew every rod ...
... questions of the day , and fully competent to hold his own with the gen- eral run of debaters on the stump , or in the Legislature . He had mastered the elementary law - books , was familiar with legal phrases and forms , knew every rod ...
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... questions before the people : one was the right of persons not born in the United States to vote ; and the other was the policy of making public improvements , such as those named by Lincoln , at public expense . During his canvass ...
... questions before the people : one was the right of persons not born in the United States to vote ; and the other was the policy of making public improvements , such as those named by Lincoln , at public expense . During his canvass ...
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... the cavalcade had stopped to water their steeds . One of the company , coming up with the others , reported , in answer to questions : " When I saw him last , he had caught two young birds that the wind had blown out 54 Abraham Lincoln.
... the cavalcade had stopped to water their steeds . One of the company , coming up with the others , reported , in answer to questions : " When I saw him last , he had caught two young birds that the wind had blown out 54 Abraham Lincoln.
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Page 102 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 185 - 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 by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said that "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 161 - ... 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...
Page 161 - ... order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the parishes of St.
Page 143 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States, that, by the accession of a Republican Administration, their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed, and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you.
Page 161 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free...
Page v - O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O CAPTAIN I my Captain ! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! 0 the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Page 105 - Volunteers — a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.
Page 12 - All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory!
Page 105 - It was a wild region with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin', writin', and cipherin"