Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His TimeAllen Thorndike Rice |
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... seemed possible without imperilling the national interests he had so close at heart . The following war episode , related to me by Mr. W. H. Croffut , who has given much attention to the subject , will help to illustrate the willingness ...
... seemed possible without imperilling the national interests he had so close at heart . The following war episode , related to me by Mr. W. H. Croffut , who has given much attention to the subject , will help to illustrate the willingness ...
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... seemed to me desirable to set forth on that occasion , and these Mr. Barlow agreed to deliver to McClellan . The time set for the mass meeting was Monday , June 16th . Once more there seemed a promise of breaking the Northern hostil ...
... seemed to me desirable to set forth on that occasion , and these Mr. Barlow agreed to deliver to McClellan . The time set for the mass meeting was Monday , June 16th . Once more there seemed a promise of breaking the Northern hostil ...
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... seemed to be stalled in front of Vicksburg , and that very morning came a report that he was going to raise the siege . Banks was defeated , the day before , at Port Hudson , and , two days earlier , a rebel privateer had captured six ...
... seemed to be stalled in front of Vicksburg , and that very morning came a report that he was going to raise the siege . Banks was defeated , the day before , at Port Hudson , and , two days earlier , a rebel privateer had captured six ...
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... seemed to disparage the services of our soldiers in the field . " " I never stood on that platform a day ! " he ex- claimed . " Everybody knows I did not . I repudi- ated it in my letter , and made my repudiation of it the only ...
... seemed to disparage the services of our soldiers in the field . " " I never stood on that platform a day ! " he ex- claimed . " Everybody knows I did not . I repudi- ated it in my letter , and made my repudiation of it the only ...
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... seemed to be pondering . Then he answered : " I have never had any intimation from General Grant as to his feeling for me . I don't know how far he would be disposed to be my friend in the matter , nor do I think it would be safe to ...
... seemed to be pondering . Then he answered : " I have never had any intimation from General Grant as to his feeling for me . I don't know how far he would be disposed to be my friend in the matter , nor do I think it would be safe to ...
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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...