Abraham LincolnHarper, 1893 - 542 pages |
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... Congress had passed a law reducing the price of land to $ 1.25 per acre . With whiskey costing only 15 cents a gallon , we need not wonder that men drank more than was good for them . Abraham Lincoln did not drink intoxicating liquor ...
... Congress had passed a law reducing the price of land to $ 1.25 per acre . With whiskey costing only 15 cents a gallon , we need not wonder that men drank more than was good for them . Abraham Lincoln did not drink intoxicating liquor ...
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... Congress had jurisdiction. So it came about that at the time when Nancy Miller was making a pair of jean trousers, and Abraham Lincoln was splitting rails to pay for them, William Lloyd Garrison was issuing the first number of his paper ...
... Congress had jurisdiction. So it came about that at the time when Nancy Miller was making a pair of jean trousers, and Abraham Lincoln was splitting rails to pay for them, William Lloyd Garrison was issuing the first number of his paper ...
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... Congress passed a law imposing a duty on cotton goods manufactured in other countries . The law was opposed by the slave - holders of South Carolina . They regarded it as damaging to their interests , for England manufactured far more ...
... Congress passed a law imposing a duty on cotton goods manufactured in other countries . The law was opposed by the slave - holders of South Carolina . They regarded it as damaging to their interests , for England manufactured far more ...
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... Congress - men hon- ored and respected , saw no moral wrong in holding negroes as slaves . There always had been slaves . In Bible times , Moses , who gave laws to the children of Israel , established statutes relating to bondmen ...
... Congress - men hon- ored and respected , saw no moral wrong in holding negroes as slaves . There always had been slaves . In Bible times , Moses , who gave laws to the children of Israel , established statutes relating to bondmen ...
Page 54
... Congress had jurisdiction . So it came about that at the time when Nancy Miller was making a pair of jean trousers , and Abraham Lincoln was splitting rails to pay for them , William Lloyd Garrison was issuing the first number of his ...
... Congress had jurisdiction . So it came about that at the time when Nancy Miller was making a pair of jean trousers , and Abraham Lincoln was splitting rails to pay for them , William Lloyd Garrison was issuing the first number of his ...
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Popular passages
Page 339 - We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth.
Page 369 - We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final restingplace of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 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 339 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 484 - We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
Page 387 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain.
Page 97 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Page 246 - Governor Magoffin, of Kentucky, replied: " Your dispatch is received. In answer I say emphatically, Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States.
Page 460 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 331 - The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south.
Page 384 - The peasant whose lot was to sow and to reap, The herdsman who climbed with his goats up the steep, The beggar who wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we tread. [The saint who enjoyed the communion of Heaven, The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven, The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust...