Letters and Addresses of Abraham LincolnUnit Book Publishing Company, 1907 - 389 pages |
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... passed through this place , and stated publicly that you were in possession of a fact or facts which , if known to the public , would entirely destroy the prospects of N. W. Ed- wards and myself at the ensuing election ; but that ...
... passed through this place , and stated publicly that you were in possession of a fact or facts which , if known to the public , would entirely destroy the prospects of N. W. Ed- wards and myself at the ensuing election ; but that ...
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... passed but a single year before . Next , negroes suspected of conspiring to raise an insurrection were caught up and hanged in all parts of the State ; then , white men supposed to be leagued with the negroes ; and finally , strangers ...
... passed but a single year before . Next , negroes suspected of conspiring to raise an insurrection were caught up and hanged in all parts of the State ; then , white men supposed to be leagued with the negroes ; and finally , strangers ...
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... passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session , the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same . They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy , but that ...
... passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session , the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same . They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy , but that ...
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... saw no good objection to plodding life through hand in hand with her . Time passed on , the lady took her journey , and in due time returned , sister in com- pany , sure enough . This astonished me a little 21 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... saw no good objection to plodding life through hand in hand with her . Time passed on , the lady took her journey , and in due time returned , sister in com- pany , sure enough . This astonished me a little 21 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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... passing of his own such line by either party during the fight shall be deemed a surrender of the contest . Third . Time : On Thursday evening at five o'clock , if you can get it so ; but in no case to be at a greater distance of time ...
... passing of his own such line by either party during the fight shall be deemed a surrender of the contest . Third . Time : On Thursday evening at five o'clock , if you can get it so ; but in no case to be at a greater distance of time ...
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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...