The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: Ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley, with an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt, Together with The Essay on Lincoln, by Carl Schurz, The Address on Lincoln, by Joseph H. Choate and The Life of Lincoln, by Noah Brooks, Volume 6G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906 - Presidents |
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... remains for the present at Fredericksburg . We are sending such regiments and dribs from here and Baltimore as we can spare to Harper's Ferry , sup- plying their places in some sort by calling in militia from the adjacent States . We ...
... remains for the present at Fredericksburg . We are sending such regiments and dribs from here and Baltimore as we can spare to Harper's Ferry , sup- plying their places in some sort by calling in militia from the adjacent States . We ...
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... remain at Moorefield was based on the supposition that it would find you there . Upon subsequent information that the enemy were still operating in the vicinity of Winchester and Martinsburg , you were directed to move against the enemy ...
... remain at Moorefield was based on the supposition that it would find you there . Upon subsequent information that the enemy were still operating in the vicinity of Winchester and Martinsburg , you were directed to move against the enemy ...
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... remain with us . Now , if you could give a start to the white people , you would open a wide door for many to be made free . If we deal with those who are not free at the beginning , and whose intellects are clouded by slavery , we have ...
... remain with us . Now , if you could give a start to the white people , you would open a wide door for many to be made free . If we deal with those who are not free at the beginning , and whose intellects are clouded by slavery , we have ...
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... remain within reach of the country of your nativity . I do not know how much attachment you may have toward our race . It does not strike me that you have the greatest reason to love them . But still you are attached to them , at all ...
... remain within reach of the country of your nativity . I do not know how much attachment you may have toward our race . It does not strike me that you have the greatest reason to love them . But still you are attached to them , at all ...
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... remain , I cannot conceive who under my authority can . Remain as long as you safely can , and provide as well as you can for the poor inmates of the institution . A. LINCOLN . TO HORACE GREELEY . EXECUTIVE MANSION , WASHINGTON , August ...
... remain , I cannot conceive who under my authority can . Remain as long as you safely can , and provide as well as you can for the poor inmates of the institution . A. LINCOLN . TO HORACE GREELEY . EXECUTIVE MANSION , WASHINGTON , August ...
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Page 208 - 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...
Page 331 - ... Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake....
Page 138 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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...
Page 119 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or 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 139 - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service. " SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect...
Page 57 - I feel any misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as you feel it yourself. If you have had a drawn battle, or a repulse, it is the price we pay for the enemy not being in Washington. We protected Washington, and the enemy concentrated on you.
Page 138 - ... 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 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...
Page 400 - An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes...
Page 351 - I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that " while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.
Page 178 - West without paying toll at the crossing of any national boundary. Our national strife springs not from our permanent part; not from the land we inhabit; not from our national homestead. There is no possible severing of this but would multiply and not mitigate evils among us. In all its adaptations and aptitudes it demands union and abhors separation. In fact, it would ere long force reunion, however much of blood and treasure the separation might have cost. Our strife pertains to ourselves — to...