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... duty to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it for the purpose of establishing Slavery in any terri- tory of the United States , by positive legislation , prohibiting its existence or extension ...
... duty to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it for the purpose of establishing Slavery in any terri- tory of the United States , by positive legislation , prohibiting its existence or extension ...
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... duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism - Polygamy and Slavery . 44 Resolved , That while the Constitution of the United States was ordained and established by the people in order to form a more ...
... duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism - Polygamy and Slavery . 44 Resolved , That while the Constitution of the United States was ordained and established by the people in order to form a more ...
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... duty we owe to our constituents and our country , unite in the following dec- laration : " 1. That the history of the nation , during the last four years , has fully established the propriety and necessity of the organization and ...
... duty we owe to our constituents and our country , unite in the following dec- laration : " 1. That the history of the nation , during the last four years , has fully established the propriety and necessity of the organization and ...
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... duty , by legislation , whenever such legislation is necessary , to maintain this provision of the Constitution ... duties upon imports , sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imposts as to encourage the development of the ...
... duty , by legislation , whenever such legislation is necessary , to maintain this provision of the Constitution ... duties upon imports , sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imposts as to encourage the development of the ...
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... duty of the Chief Magistrate to transmit the government of the Union unimpaired by him to his successor . The conclusion of this notable address is of historical value : " My countrymen , one and all , think calmly and well upon this ...
... duty of the Chief Magistrate to transmit the government of the Union unimpaired by him to his successor . The conclusion of this notable address is of historical value : " My countrymen , one and all , think calmly and well upon this ...
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Page 26 - 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 22 - That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that " no person should be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law...
Page 44 - Do not misunderstand me because I have mentioned these objections. They indicate the difficulties that have thus far prevented my action in some such way as you desire. I have not decided against a proclamation of liberty to the slaves, but hold the matter under advisement; and I can assure you that the subject is on my mind, by day and night, more than any other. Whatever shall appear to be God's will, I will do.
Page 213 - General: I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army...
Page 36 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth 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 battle-field 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 47 - That, as Slavery was the cause and now constitutes the strength of this Rebellion, and as it must be always and everywhere hostile to the principles of republican government, justice and the national safety demand its utter and complete extirpation from the soil of the Republic...
Page 43 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this...
Page 26 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. 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.
Page 480 - To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received and considered by the Executive Government of the United States, and will be met by liberal terms on other substantial and collateral points; and the bearer or bearers thereof shall have safe conduct both ways. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.