Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln, and War-time Memories: Including Many Heretofore Unpublished Incidents and Historical Facts Concerning His Ancestry, Boyhood, Family, Religion, Public Life, Trials and Triumphs, Volume 1Fleming H. Revell Company, 1917 - 570 pages |
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... seemed at times as if looking far away , seeing what others did not see . She had attended school in Virginia , and stood upon a higher intellectual plane than those around her . The Bible was read morning and evening , and her conduct ...
... seemed at times as if looking far away , seeing what others did not see . She had attended school in Virginia , and stood upon a higher intellectual plane than those around her . The Bible was read morning and evening , and her conduct ...
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... seemed an obstacle rather than a help in the path that leads through the popular hedge to the popular ser- vice ? Hard lines ! Lincoln's is rather one of the illustriously fortunate careers of young men . ' 9924 Another , and not the ...
... seemed an obstacle rather than a help in the path that leads through the popular hedge to the popular ser- vice ? Hard lines ! Lincoln's is rather one of the illustriously fortunate careers of young men . ' 9924 Another , and not the ...
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... seemed impossible to regard and treat with common justice those whom they suspected were less intense than themselves in loyalty to the Union cause . This led to serious misrepre- sentations , and even to the circulation of falsehoods ...
... seemed impossible to regard and treat with common justice those whom they suspected were less intense than themselves in loyalty to the Union cause . This led to serious misrepre- sentations , and even to the circulation of falsehoods ...
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... seemed even above his actual height of six feet four inches ; but he was not , as very tall men often are , ungainly in either manner or attitude . He had an air of unstudied ease , a kind of careless dignity that well became his ...
... seemed even above his actual height of six feet four inches ; but he was not , as very tall men often are , ungainly in either manner or attitude . He had an air of unstudied ease , a kind of careless dignity that well became his ...
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... seemed suddenly to diminish in size the moment he in any manner came into comparison with Mr. Lincoln . Another curious thing was that all the really ablest men among them were aware , consciously or unconsciously , of the superior ...
... seemed suddenly to diminish in size the moment he in any manner came into comparison with Mr. Lincoln . Another curious thing was that all the really ablest men among them were aware , consciously or unconsciously , of the superior ...
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Page 191 - 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 239 - I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by congress, or by decision of the supreme court...
Page 342 - And I besought the Lord at that time, saying, O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand : for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Page 349 - We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth.
Page 468 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to 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 346 - 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 343 - To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Page 454 - 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 469 - I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.
Page 191 - I now reiterate these sentiments ; and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible, that the property, peace and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now incoming administration.