Letters and Addresses of Abraham LincolnUnit Book Publishing Company, 1907 - 389 pages |
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Page 55
... practical , question , pressing closely upon us . And yet it is a question which the President seems never to have thought of . As to the mode of terminating the war and securing peace , the President is equally wandering and indefinite ...
... practical , question , pressing closely upon us . And yet it is a question which the President seems never to have thought of . As to the mode of terminating the war and securing peace , the President is equally wandering and indefinite ...
Page 88
... practical one . In your assumption that there may be a fair decision of the slavery question in Kan- sas , I plainly see you and I would differ about the Nebraska law . I look upon that enactment not as a law , but as a violence from ...
... practical one . In your assumption that there may be a fair decision of the slavery question in Kan- sas , I plainly see you and I would differ about the Nebraska law . I look upon that enactment not as a law , but as a violence from ...
Page 94
... practical equality of all men . The late presidential election was a struggle by one party to discard that central idea and to substitute for it the op- posite idea that slavery is right in the abstract , the work- ings of which as a ...
... practical equality of all men . The late presidential election was a struggle by one party to discard that central idea and to substitute for it the op- posite idea that slavery is right in the abstract , the work- ings of which as a ...
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... practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain ; and it was placed in the Declaration not for that , but for future use . Its authors meant it to be — as , thank God , it is now proving itself- -a stumbling - block to all ...
... practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain ; and it was placed in the Declaration not for that , but for future use . Its authors meant it to be — as , thank God , it is now proving itself- -a stumbling - block to all ...
Page 102
... practical use now - mere rubbish - old wadding left to rot on the battle - field after the victory is won . I understand you are preparing to celebrate the " Fourth , " to - morrow week . What for ? The doings of that day had no ...
... practical use now - mere rubbish - old wadding left to rot on the battle - field after the victory is won . I understand you are preparing to celebrate the " Fourth , " to - morrow week . What for ? The doings of that day had no ...
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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...