Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1Robert Clarke Company, 1903 |
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Page 39
... matters of current interest among the old settlers when I first knew him . " While there are different versions of the story as ultimately expanded and embellished , it is agreed that Ann had a lover named McNamar , to whom she was ...
... matters of current interest among the old settlers when I first knew him . " While there are different versions of the story as ultimately expanded and embellished , it is agreed that Ann had a lover named McNamar , to whom she was ...
Page 41
... matter , the " book " was nothing more than a number of manuscript pages , discussing in a rationalistic way some of the commonly received theo- logical opinions or dogmas - as " incarnation , " " atone- ment , " or the like — very ...
... matter , the " book " was nothing more than a number of manuscript pages , discussing in a rationalistic way some of the commonly received theo- logical opinions or dogmas - as " incarnation , " " atone- ment , " or the like — very ...
Page 50
... matter how inclement the weather , eight or ten choice spirits assembled , without distinction of party . It was a sort of social club without organization . They came there because they were sure to find Lincoln . His habit was to ...
... matter how inclement the weather , eight or ten choice spirits assembled , without distinction of party . It was a sort of social club without organization . They came there because they were sure to find Lincoln . His habit was to ...
Page 63
... matter in his intimate correspondence with Mr. Speed reveals little more than that both these bachelors like so many others ( Thomas Carlyle , for one ) had a morbid dread or misgiving on coming directly in face of the matrimonial altar ...
... matter in his intimate correspondence with Mr. Speed reveals little more than that both these bachelors like so many others ( Thomas Carlyle , for one ) had a morbid dread or misgiving on coming directly in face of the matrimonial altar ...
Page 74
... matter of as great regret to me as it possibly could to you . " Shields had not come so far , by such conveyance and thoroughfares as the country then afforded , with- out being very much in earnest . His letter was in terms that left ...
... matter of as great regret to me as it possibly could to you . " Shields had not come so far , by such conveyance and thoroughfares as the country then afforded , with- out being very much in earnest . His letter was in terms that left ...
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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.