Letters and Addresses of Abraham LincolnUnit Book Publishing Company, 1907 - 389 pages |
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Page 77
... emancipation might be adopted , but for their tardi- ness in this I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South . When they remind us of their constitutional rights , I ac- knowledge them — not grudgingly , but fully and ...
... emancipation might be adopted , but for their tardi- ness in this I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South . When they remind us of their constitutional rights , I ac- knowledge them — not grudgingly , but fully and ...
Page 86
... emancipation in Ken- tucky , together with a thousand other signs , extinguished that hope utterly . On the question of liberty as a prin- ciple , we are not what we have been . When we were the political slaves of King George , and ...
... emancipation in Ken- tucky , together with a thousand other signs , extinguished that hope utterly . On the question of liberty as a prin- ciple , we are not what we have been . When we were the political slaves of King George , and ...
Page 97
... emancipate their slaves ; but since then such legal restraints have been made upon emancipation as to amount almost to prohibition . In those days legislatures held the unquestioned power to abolish slavery in their respective States ...
... emancipate their slaves ; but since then such legal restraints have been made upon emancipation as to amount almost to prohibition . In those days legislatures held the unquestioned power to abolish slavery in their respective States ...
Page 115
... emancipation , that they must , if they would do this , go back to the era of our independence , and muzzle the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return ; they must blow out the moral lights around us ; they must penetrate the ...
... emancipation , that they must , if they would do this , go back to the era of our independence , and muzzle the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return ; they must blow out the moral lights around us ; they must penetrate the ...
Page 128
... emancipation gradual and com- pensating the unwilling owners . Where we suppose we have the constitutional right , we restrain ourselves in reference to the actual existence of the institution and the difficulties thrown about it . We ...
... emancipation gradual and com- pensating the unwilling owners . Where we suppose we have the constitutional right , we restrain ourselves in reference to the actual existence of the institution and the difficulties thrown about it . We ...
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Page 303 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 192 - 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 318 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge...
Page 266 - A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. "One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
Page 317 - Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive ; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Page 105 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' 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.
Page 329 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all' are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Page 114 - 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 80 - If the negro is a man, why, then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal/ and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
Page 105 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." 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 the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...