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... believed that that message could be made at once so firm and so conciliatory that it would be received alike by North and South , as speaking the final and unifying word . He was not , however , quite as silent as is commonly supposed ...
... believed that that message could be made at once so firm and so conciliatory that it would be received alike by North and South , as speaking the final and unifying word . He was not , however , quite as silent as is commonly supposed ...
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... believed that he ought to have been seated in the presidential chair instead of the man who was there . And further , of no previous president had it seemed pos- sible to say with so much of confidence what could be said , and was said ...
... believed that he ought to have been seated in the presidential chair instead of the man who was there . And further , of no previous president had it seemed pos- sible to say with so much of confidence what could be said , and was said ...
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... believed that such a Cabinet was certain to lack harmony . There was good ground for this fear . More than one of these men accepted Mr. Lincoln as a political accident , and regarded the election as a mistake to be corrected in 1864 ...
... believed that such a Cabinet was certain to lack harmony . There was good ground for this fear . More than one of these men accepted Mr. Lincoln as a political accident , and regarded the election as a mistake to be corrected in 1864 ...
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... believed to speak . A few days after the inauguration Seward wrote again , giving his wife his feeling in accepting ... believed himself , and was believed to be superior in education , wisdom , experience and political sagacity to the ...
... believed to speak . A few days after the inauguration Seward wrote again , giving his wife his feeling in accepting ... believed himself , and was believed to be superior in education , wisdom , experience and political sagacity to the ...
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... believed that if either one was selected for a place in the Cabinet , the other would not be chosen . The American secretary of state is not an English prime min- ister . That officer in England forms the Cabinet and defines the policy ...
... believed that if either one was selected for a place in the Cabinet , the other would not be chosen . The American secretary of state is not an English prime min- ister . That officer in England forms the Cabinet and defines the policy ...
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Page 13 - 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 147 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 489 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Page 318 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years...
Page 389 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 488 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 141 - I may believe to be falsely drawn I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it, an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it, in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy 'I seem to be pursuing,' as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
Page 493 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 266 - Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
Page 14 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.