Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1Robert Clarke Company, 1903 |
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... believe there were very few slaves in that part of Kentucky , and no trouble whatever about slavery . A different story was told by the noted Methodist * See " Complete Works , " Nicolay and Hay , I. , 639 . + Morse's " Abraham Lincoln ...
... believe there were very few slaves in that part of Kentucky , and no trouble whatever about slavery . A different story was told by the noted Methodist * See " Complete Works , " Nicolay and Hay , I. , 639 . + Morse's " Abraham Lincoln ...
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... believe to be just . It shall not deter me . If ever I feel the soul within me dilate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect , it is when I contemplate the cause of my country , deserted by all the ...
... believe to be just . It shall not deter me . If ever I feel the soul within me dilate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect , it is when I contemplate the cause of my country , deserted by all the ...
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... believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts . " Lincoln's former relations with Mary Todd , inter- rupted as we have seen , had not been at once renewed on his return from visiting the Speeds in Kentucky , yet the interruption ...
... believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts . " Lincoln's former relations with Mary Todd , inter- rupted as we have seen , had not been at once renewed on his return from visiting the Speeds in Kentucky , yet the interruption ...
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... believe , is to liberate the world . Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exer- cise it . Any portion of such people that can may revolu- tionize , and make their own of ...
... believe , is to liberate the world . Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exer- cise it . Any portion of such people that can may revolu- tionize , and make their own of ...
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... free - State man , with a constituency I believe to be , and with personal feelings ( 96 ) CHAPTER VIII IN CONGRESS SPEECHES IN NEw England - SECOND SESSION SLAVERY TURMOIL- No OFFICE FROM TAYLOR WHIG CANDIDate for SenatTOR ―
... free - State man , with a constituency I believe to be , and with personal feelings ( 96 ) CHAPTER VIII IN CONGRESS SPEECHES IN NEw England - SECOND SESSION SLAVERY TURMOIL- No OFFICE FROM TAYLOR WHIG CANDIDate for SenatTOR ―
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Page 279 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 280 - In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the National authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts...
Page 324 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life.
Page 280 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 159 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — 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...
Page 280 - The course here indicated will be followed, unless current events and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper...
Page 322 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
Page 159 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, 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 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 281 - Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present...
Page 269 - I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.