Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His TimeAllen Thorndike Rice |
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... tenderly expressed his sympathy for his sorrow . He said , " Mr. President , I am deeply touched by your sorrow , and at the distress I have caused you . I have only answered your questions . No doubt my INTRODUCTION . XXV.
... tenderly expressed his sympathy for his sorrow . He said , " Mr. President , I am deeply touched by your sorrow , and at the distress I have caused you . I have only answered your questions . No doubt my INTRODUCTION . XXV.
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... President , but never over- whelmed him ; yet the rebuke of a friend caused him the keenest pangs . General Schenck once told me of being with Lincoln on the occasion of his receiving bad news from xxviii INTRODUCTION .
... President , but never over- whelmed him ; yet the rebuke of a friend caused him the keenest pangs . General Schenck once told me of being with Lincoln on the occasion of his receiving bad news from xxviii INTRODUCTION .
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... cause than any other man living . He has been elected Governor of our largest State . If he would come to the front he could control his partisans , and give a new impetus to the war . I have sent for you , Mr. Weed , to ask you to go ...
... cause than any other man living . He has been elected Governor of our largest State . If he would come to the front he could control his partisans , and give a new impetus to the war . I have sent for you , Mr. Weed , to ask you to go ...
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... Union- Democratic party , and , through that means , push forward the Union cause , I will gladly step aside and do all I can to secure his election in 1864. ' " I opened negotiations through S. L. M. Barlow , xxxii INTRODUCTION .
... Union- Democratic party , and , through that means , push forward the Union cause , I will gladly step aside and do all I can to secure his election in 1864. ' " I opened negotiations through S. L. M. Barlow , xxxii INTRODUCTION .
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... cause . I re- member nothing about any such memoranda , and am sure I never wrote to Thurlow Weed in my life . " I asked the General if no such overture was ever made by Mr. Weed . " Not as I remember , " he said . " I recollect his ...
... cause . I re- member nothing about any such memoranda , and am sure I never wrote to Thurlow Weed in my life . " I asked the General if no such overture was ever made by Mr. Weed . " Not as I remember , " he said . " I recollect his ...
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Page 91 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 415 - 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 battle-field 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 120 - Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes.
Page 549 - That the maintenance Inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 82 - 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 283 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 81 - 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 133 - 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.
Page 122 - 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...
Page 537 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree 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...