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... Hundred Members of the Christian Commission- Remarks of Mr. Stuart , and the President's Reply - Mr . Lincoln's Interview with Rev. J. T. Duryea - His Interest in the Efforts of Religious Men - His Habits at the White House - Narrative ...
... Hundred Members of the Christian Commission- Remarks of Mr. Stuart , and the President's Reply - Mr . Lincoln's Interview with Rev. J. T. Duryea - His Interest in the Efforts of Religious Men - His Habits at the White House - Narrative ...
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... hundreds of others who had shared with him the dangers of pioneer life , was dispossessed of nearly all his lands ... hundred dollars , his price for the place . After building a flat - boat and launching it upon the Rolling Fork , he ...
... hundreds of others who had shared with him the dangers of pioneer life , was dispossessed of nearly all his lands ... hundred dollars , his price for the place . After building a flat - boat and launching it upon the Rolling Fork , he ...
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... hundred miles through the wilderness ; and it is something to be remembered to the humble itinerant's honor that he was willing to pay this tribute of respect to the woman who had so thoroughly honored him and his sacred office . He ...
... hundred miles through the wilderness ; and it is something to be remembered to the humble itinerant's honor that he was willing to pay this tribute of respect to the woman who had so thoroughly honored him and his sacred office . He ...
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... hundred miles before him , and a vision of the great world of which he had read and thought so much , may be imagined . At this time , he had become a very tall and pow- erful young man . He had reached the remarkable height of six feet ...
... hundred miles before him , and a vision of the great world of which he had read and thought so much , may be imagined . At this time , he had become a very tall and pow- erful young man . He had reached the remarkable height of six feet ...
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... hundred miles , which they made in fifteen days , they entered Macon County in that state , and there halted . The elder Lincoln selected a spot on the north side of the Sangamon River , at the junction of the timber land and prairie ...
... hundred miles , which they made in fifteen days , they entered Macon County in that state , and there halted . The elder Lincoln selected a spot on the north side of the Sangamon River , at the junction of the timber land and prairie ...
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Page 279 - Resolved, that the 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...
Page 282 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts ; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 504 - 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 315 - Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government ; and so to resist force employed for its destruction, by force for its preservation.
Page 503 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
Page 504 - 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 offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 315 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
Page 283 - I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government...
Page 279 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 165 - We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen — Stephen, Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance...