Letters and Addresses of Abraham LincolnUnit Book Publishing Company, 1907 - 389 pages |
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... negro at St. Louis . He had forfeited his life by the per- petration of an outrageous murder upon one of the most worthy and respectable citizens of the city , and had he not died as he did , he must have died by the sentence of the law ...
... negro at St. Louis . He had forfeited his life by the per- petration of an outrageous murder upon one of the most worthy and respectable citizens of the city , and had he not died as he did , he must have died by the sentence of the law ...
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... negro , I wish to ask whether you of the South , yourselves , have ever been willing to do as much ? It is kindly provided that of all those who come into the world only a small percentage are natural tyrants . That percentage is no ...
... negro , I wish to ask whether you of the South , yourselves , have ever been willing to do as much ? It is kindly provided that of all those who come into the world only a small percentage are natural tyrants . That percentage is no ...
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... negro . If they deny this , let me address them a few plain questions . In 1820 you joined the North , almost unanimously , in declaring the African slave - trade piracy , and in annexing to it the punishment of death . Why did you do ...
... negro . If they deny this , let me address them a few plain questions . In 1820 you joined the North , almost unanimously , in declaring the African slave - trade piracy , and in annexing to it the punishment of death . Why did you do ...
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... negro has some natural right to himself — that those who deny it and make mere merchandise of him deserve kickings , con- tempt , and death . And now why will you ask us to deny the humanity of the slave , and estimate him as only the ...
... negro has some natural right to himself — that those who deny it and make mere merchandise of him deserve kickings , con- tempt , and death . And now why will you ask us to deny the humanity of the slave , and estimate him as only the ...
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... negro is not or is a man . If he is not a man , in that case he who is a man may as a matter of self - government do just what he pleases with him . But if the negro is a man , is it not to that extent a total destruction of self ...
... negro is not or is a man . If he is not a man , in that case he who is a man may as a matter of self - government do just what he pleases with him . But if the negro is a man , is it not to that extent a total destruction of self ...
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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...