Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His TimeAllen Thorndike Rice |
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... believe tradition , Lincoln came from a stock which proves the hereditary source of his chief characteristics . His humor , his melancholy , his strange mingling of energy and indolence , his gen- erosity , his unconventional character ...
... believe tradition , Lincoln came from a stock which proves the hereditary source of his chief characteristics . His humor , his melancholy , his strange mingling of energy and indolence , his gen- erosity , his unconventional character ...
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... believe , even then , that the war was go- ing to be a long one . Mr. Lincoln did not seem to heed the remark , but he said : " Governor Seymour could do more for our cause than any other man living . He has been elected Governor of our ...
... believe , even then , that the war was go- ing to be a long one . Mr. Lincoln did not seem to heed the remark , but he said : " Governor Seymour could do more for our cause than any other man living . He has been elected Governor of our ...
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... believe me to be , in great haste , truly your friend , GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN . Hon . THURLOW WEED , New York . " The General has forgotten that formal letter , has he ? " said Mr. Weed , smiling . " If he had pre- sided at that meeting ...
... believe me to be , in great haste , truly your friend , GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN . Hon . THURLOW WEED , New York . " The General has forgotten that formal letter , has he ? " said Mr. Weed , smiling . " If he had pre- sided at that meeting ...
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... believe , " said General McClellan , " that the President meant every word he said , but that the influences at Washington were , as I pre- dicted , too strong for him or for any living man . ' In a conversation with General Sherman , I ...
... believe , " said General McClellan , " that the President meant every word he said , but that the influences at Washington were , as I pre- dicted , too strong for him or for any living man . ' In a conversation with General Sherman , I ...
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... believe , will look with sincere satisfaction upon the result obtained through the prompt and able co - operation of the distin- guished contributors to these reminiscences . For the time is fast coming when we shall seek in vain for ...
... believe , will look with sincere satisfaction upon the result obtained through the prompt and able co - operation of the distin- guished contributors to these reminiscences . For the time is fast coming when we shall seek in vain for ...
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Page 63 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 75 - 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 it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 65 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 349 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 74 - Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes.
Page 467 - 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 54 - 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 215 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 85 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.
Page 215 - 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...