Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln, and War-time Memories: Including Many Heretofore Unpublished Incidents and Historical Facts Concerning His Ancestry, Boyhood, Family, Religion, Public Life, Trials and Triumphs, Volume 1Fleming H. Revell Company, 1917 - 570 pages |
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... called. He was brought into close association with the most distinguished men of the nation, and after the election of Lincoln as President he was called to Washington to fill an important position in the Federal government and to be an ...
... called. He was brought into close association with the most distinguished men of the nation, and after the election of Lincoln as President he was called to Washington to fill an important position in the Federal government and to be an ...
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... called , could so successfully have supplemented the three thousand Lincoln publications that have appeared , with a work that is unlike all that has been written concerning Abra- ham Lincoln . From boyhood Doctor Chapman has been ...
... called , could so successfully have supplemented the three thousand Lincoln publications that have appeared , with a work that is unlike all that has been written concerning Abra- ham Lincoln . From boyhood Doctor Chapman has been ...
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... called . He was brought into close association with the most distinguished men of the nation , and after the election of Lincoln as President he was c called to Washington to fill an important position in the Federal government and to ...
... called . He was brought into close association with the most distinguished men of the nation , and after the election of Lincoln as President he was c called to Washington to fill an important position in the Federal government and to ...
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... called to pass , were calculated to produce the toughened fibre of Abraham Lincoln's giant frame and his superb moral stamina . Soon after the Lincolns reached Kentucky , Abraham Lincoln - grandfather of the great President - was shot ...
... called to pass , were calculated to produce the toughened fibre of Abraham Lincoln's giant frame and his superb moral stamina . Soon after the Lincolns reached Kentucky , Abraham Lincoln - grandfather of the great President - was shot ...
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... called upon to render . These qual- ities were in Thomas Lincoln united with a childlike piety and humble trust in God . He was not learned in scholarship or books , but he was well and widely educated in the lessons of early pioneer ...
... called upon to render . These qual- ities were in Thomas Lincoln united with a childlike piety and humble trust in God . He was not learned in scholarship or books , but he was well and widely educated in the lessons of early pioneer ...
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Page 175 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.0
Page 227 - I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by congress, or by decision of the supreme court...
Page 328 - And I besought the Lord at that time, saying, O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand : for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Page 452 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
Page 295 - Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Page 330 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain.
Page 346 - The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the divine will demand that Sunday labor in the Army and Navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity. The discipline and character of the national forces should not suffer nor the cause they defend be imperiled by the profanation of the day or name of the Most High. "At this time of public...
Page 328 - To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Page 302 - Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Page 175 - I now reiterate these sentiments ; and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible, that the property, peace and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now incoming administration.