Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the United States; and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy of the United States |
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... occasion ...... 84 A plot is made to assassinate him - How it was thwarted .... 85 Returns to Philadelphia in a special train , and proceeds to Washington in disguise - His arrival there - Is welcomed to Washington by the authorities ...
... occasion ...... 84 A plot is made to assassinate him - How it was thwarted .... 85 Returns to Philadelphia in a special train , and proceeds to Washington in disguise - His arrival there - Is welcomed to Washington by the authorities ...
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... occasion dis- played his eloquence and superior argumentative ability . One of his first votes was given on the twentieth of De- cember in favor of the following resolution : " Resolved , That if , in the judgment of Congress , it be ...
... occasion dis- played his eloquence and superior argumentative ability . One of his first votes was given on the twentieth of De- cember in favor of the following resolution : " Resolved , That if , in the judgment of Congress , it be ...
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... occasions during the session , he voted for the reception of petitions and memorials in favor of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia , against the slave - trade , and advocating the prohibition of slavery in the ...
... occasions during the session , he voted for the reception of petitions and memorials in favor of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia , against the slave - trade , and advocating the prohibition of slavery in the ...
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... occasion to say that he did not view as unsound . He alluded to the statement that the General Government was interested in these internal improve- ments being made , inasmuch as they increased the value of the lands that were unsold ...
... occasion to say that he did not view as unsound . He alluded to the statement that the General Government was interested in these internal improve- ments being made , inasmuch as they increased the value of the lands that were unsold ...
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... OCCASION . The committee appointed by the Convention to notify Mr. Lincoln of his nomination , performed their duty without delay , and upon arriving at his residence in Springfield , whither they were escorted by an immense concourse ...
... OCCASION . The committee appointed by the Convention to notify Mr. Lincoln of his nomination , performed their duty without delay , and upon arriving at his residence in Springfield , whither they were escorted by an immense concourse ...
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Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the ... David Brainerd Williamson No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 97 - Whereas, The laws of the United States have been for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 91 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 94 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Page 94 - 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.
Page 134 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 95 - By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Page 108 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Page 134 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Page 93 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 83 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence, which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.