Life of Abraham Lincoln: His Early History, Political Career, Speeches in and Out of Congress, Together with Many Characteristic Stories and Yarns by and Concerning Lincoln which Has Earned for Him the Sobriquet - "The Story Telling President" |
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... never saw even the exterior of what was properly a church edifice . The religious services he attended were held either at a private dwelling , or in some log school - house , or in the open grove : " Fit shrine for humble worshiper to ...
... never saw even the exterior of what was properly a church edifice . The religious services he attended were held either at a private dwelling , or in some log school - house , or in the open grove : " Fit shrine for humble worshiper to ...
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... never dispel Night's tears o'er the form that was loved so well- Where no column proud in the sun may glow . To mock the heart that is resting below . " * A year or two later , Thomas Lincoln contracted a second marriage with Mrs ...
... never dispel Night's tears o'er the form that was loved so well- Where no column proud in the sun may glow . To mock the heart that is resting below . " * A year or two later , Thomas Lincoln contracted a second marriage with Mrs ...
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... never again visited . His father was soon after comfortably settled in the place to which he had turned his course , and spent the remainder of his adventurous days there , arriving at a good old age . He died in Coles county , on the ...
... never again visited . His father was soon after comfortably settled in the place to which he had turned his course , and spent the remainder of his adventurous days there , arriving at a good old age . He died in Coles county , on the ...
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... never fainted from loss of blood , I can truly say I was often very hungry . " Mr. Speaker , if I should ever conclude to doff whatever our Democratic friends may suppose there is of black cockade Federalism about me , and , thereupon ...
... never fainted from loss of blood , I can truly say I was often very hungry . " Mr. Speaker , if I should ever conclude to doff whatever our Democratic friends may suppose there is of black cockade Federalism about me , and , thereupon ...
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... never once dreaming of seeking profit in compliance , or in a compromise of his honest principles . Henry Clay was his model as a statesman , and always continued such , while any issues were left to contend for , of the celebrated ...
... never once dreaming of seeking profit in compliance , or in a compromise of his honest principles . Henry Clay was his model as a statesman , and always continued such , while any issues were left to contend for , of the celebrated ...
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Page 748 - If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 748 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just G-od's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 410 - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 748 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the Inaugural Address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation.
Page 406 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and 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.
Page 188 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 202 - ... maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend ; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
Page 207 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 135 - If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control the co-ordinate authorities of this government. The Congress, the Executive, and the Court, must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the constitution. Each public officer, who takes an oath to support the constitution, swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 207 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.