Letters and Addresses of Abraham LincolnUnit Book Publishing Company, 1907 - 389 pages |
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... wish an answer to this , and you are at liberty to publish both , if you choose . [ From an address before the young men's lyceum of Spring- field , Illinois , 27 January 1837. ] As a subject for the remarks of the evening , “ The per ...
... wish an answer to this , and you are at liberty to publish both , if you choose . [ From an address before the young men's lyceum of Spring- field , Illinois , 27 January 1837. ] As a subject for the remarks of the evening , “ The per ...
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... wish you would think seriously before you decide . What I have said I will most positively abide by , provided you wish it . My opinion is that you had better not do it . You have not been accustomed to hardship , and it may be more ...
... wish you would think seriously before you decide . What I have said I will most positively abide by , provided you wish it . My opinion is that you had better not do it . You have not been accustomed to hardship , and it may be more ...
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... wish that you should . Do not understand by this that I wish to cut your acquaintance . I mean no such thing . What I do wish is that our further acquaintance shall depend upon yourself . If such further acquaintance would contribute ...
... wish that you should . Do not understand by this that I wish to cut your acquaintance . I mean no such thing . What I do wish is that our further acquaintance shall depend upon yourself . If such further acquaintance would contribute ...
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... wish you to understand them . You ask for my present " feelings on the subject . " I entertain no unkind feelings to you , and none of any sort upon the subject , ex- cept a sincere regret that I permitted myself to get into such an ...
... wish you to understand them . You ask for my present " feelings on the subject . " I entertain no unkind feelings to you , and none of any sort upon the subject , ex- cept a sincere regret that I permitted myself to get into such an ...
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... wish her death , you would most certainly be resigned to it . Perhaps this point is no longer a question with you , and my pertinacious dwell- ing upon it is a rude intrusion upon your feelings . If so , you must pardon me . You know ...
... wish her death , you would most certainly be resigned to it . Perhaps this point is no longer a question with you , and my pertinacious dwell- ing upon it is a rude intrusion upon your feelings . If so , you must pardon me . You know ...
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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...