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... understanding of democracy , and the way he worked it out in his own life , in his relations with his fellows and with the American people . 2. His intellectual and moral development , particularly as we see it in his handling of the ...
... understanding of democracy , and the way he worked it out in his own life , in his relations with his fellows and with the American people . 2. His intellectual and moral development , particularly as we see it in his handling of the ...
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... understanding them , for all these things . This , 20 gentlemen , as well as I can give it , is a plain statement of our principles in all their enormity . - I will say now that there is a sentiment in the country con- trary to me a ...
... understanding them , for all these things . This , 20 gentlemen , as well as I can give it , is a plain statement of our principles in all their enormity . - I will say now that there is a sentiment in the country con- trary to me a ...
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... understanding those fathers had of the question mentioned ? What is the frame of government under which we live ? The answer must be , The Constitution of the United States . " That Constitution consists of the original , framed in 1787 ...
... understanding those fathers had of the question mentioned ? What is the frame of government under which we live ? The answer must be , The Constitution of the United States . " That Constitution consists of the original , framed in 1787 ...
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... understanding . 1784 , three years before the Constitution , the United States then owning the Northwestern Territory , and no other , the 25 Congress of the Confederation had before them the ques- tion of prohibiting slavery in that ...
... understanding . 1784 , three years before the Constitution , the United States then owning the Northwestern Territory , and no other , the 25 Congress of the Confederation had before them the ques- tion of prohibiting slavery in that ...
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... understanding no line dividing local from federal authority , nor anything else , properly forbade the federal government to control as to slavery in federal terri- 15 tory . This time the prohibition became a law , being part of what ...
... understanding no line dividing local from federal authority , nor anything else , properly forbade the federal government to control as to slavery in federal terri- 15 tory . This time the prohibition became a law , being part of what ...
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Page 81 - seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with...
Page 74 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 92 - ... all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 65 - 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 92 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 91 - In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.
Page 69 - 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.
Page 118 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 72 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 93 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free ; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.