Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His TimeAllen Thorndike Rice |
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... command . " I accept your praise of our victories , " he rejoined , " but what our armies would have been in defeat I cannot say . " Lincoln's character was weighed in both balances ; and it was not found wanting . No man could have ...
... command . " I accept your praise of our victories , " he rejoined , " but what our armies would have been in defeat I cannot say . " Lincoln's character was weighed in both balances ; and it was not found wanting . No man could have ...
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... command . His feeling toward Sherman and Grant , at the close of the war , as well as his extreme sensitiveness to rebuke on the part of those he esteemed , is well illustrated by another incident , for which , also , I am indebted to ...
... command . His feeling toward Sherman and Grant , at the close of the war , as well as his extreme sensitiveness to rebuke on the part of those he esteemed , is well illustrated by another incident , for which , also , I am indebted to ...
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... legs , with his knees almost under his chin . " General , ' said he to me , ' you have saved the country . You must remain in command and carry us through to the end . ' " That will be impossible , ' replied McClellan . INTRODUCTION .
... legs , with his knees almost under his chin . " General , ' said he to me , ' you have saved the country . You must remain in command and carry us through to the end . ' " That will be impossible , ' replied McClellan . INTRODUCTION .
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... commands not a single port on the coast nor any highway out from its pretended Capital by land . Under these circumstances , Great Britain is called upon to intervene and give it body and independence by resisting our measures of ...
... commands not a single port on the coast nor any highway out from its pretended Capital by land . Under these circumstances , Great Britain is called upon to intervene and give it body and independence by resisting our measures of ...
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... commands not a single port on the coast • onor any highway out from it's pretended . Cakital by land Hender these circumstances Great Britain it called upond to intervene and give it body and independence restings by contry our measures ...
... commands not a single port on the coast • onor any highway out from it's pretended . Cakital by land Hender these circumstances Great Britain it called upond to intervene and give it body and independence restings by contry our measures ...
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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...