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... measure , and the Democratic party , so triumphant in 1852 , almost everywhere met with disastrous defeat in the elections of 1854. This defeat would , doubtless , have been even more dis- astrous but for the fact that the disruption of ...
... measure , and the Democratic party , so triumphant in 1852 , almost everywhere met with disastrous defeat in the elections of 1854. This defeat would , doubtless , have been even more dis- astrous but for the fact that the disruption of ...
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... measures for the total and final suppression of that execrable traffic . " 10. That in the recent vetoes , by their Federal Governors , of the acts of the Legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska , prohibiting Slavery in those Ter- ritories ...
... measures for the total and final suppression of that execrable traffic . " 10. That in the recent vetoes , by their Federal Governors , of the acts of the Legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska , prohibiting Slavery in those Ter- ritories ...
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... measure which has already passed the House . " 14. That the Republican party is opposed to any change in our Natural- ization Laws or any State legislation by which the rights of citizenship , hith- erto accorded to emigrants from ...
... measure which has already passed the House . " 14. That the Republican party is opposed to any change in our Natural- ization Laws or any State legislation by which the rights of citizenship , hith- erto accorded to emigrants from ...
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... measures of the stir- ring and exceptional times . That the adminis- tration of affairs during this national crisis was in the main highly successful , the event of the war is ample demonstration . For not only was the Union saved , but ...
... measures of the stir- ring and exceptional times . That the adminis- tration of affairs during this national crisis was in the main highly successful , the event of the war is ample demonstration . For not only was the Union saved , but ...
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... measure for suppressing said rebellion , do , on this first day of January , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty - three , and in accordance with my purpose so to do , publicly proclaimed for the full period of ...
... measure for suppressing said rebellion , do , on this first day of January , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty - three , and in accordance with my purpose so to do , publicly proclaimed for the full period of ...
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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.