Lincoln Reshapes the PresidencyCharles M. Hubbard How Abraham Lincoln redefined the presidency |
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... Grant had Lincoln's complete confidence , and his reply to voluble criticism of him was : " I can't spare this man he fights . " 54 After Grant moved to Virginia , there was little interference and , indeed , on no other basis could the ...
... Grant had Lincoln's complete confidence , and his reply to voluble criticism of him was : " I can't spare this man he fights . " 54 After Grant moved to Virginia , there was little interference and , indeed , on no other basis could the ...
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... Grant was named general in chief , charged with the function of planning and directing the movements of all Union armies . Because he disliked the political atmosphere in Washington , Grant established his headquarters with the army in ...
... Grant was named general in chief , charged with the function of planning and directing the movements of all Union armies . Because he disliked the political atmosphere in Washington , Grant established his headquarters with the army in ...
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... Grant , approved the design without seeking to know the details . The 1864 - command system embodied the brilliance of simplicity : a commander in chief to lay down policy and grand strategy , a general in chief to frame specific battle ...
... Grant , approved the design without seeking to know the details . The 1864 - command system embodied the brilliance of simplicity : a commander in chief to lay down policy and grand strategy , a general in chief to frame specific battle ...
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... Grant captured the opposing force whole , giving the North some 14,000 new prisoners . Like McClellan , Grant wondered what to do with his new charges and was relieved to write to his superior's chief of staff on 17 February : " I am ...
... Grant captured the opposing force whole , giving the North some 14,000 new prisoners . Like McClellan , Grant wondered what to do with his new charges and was relieved to write to his superior's chief of staff on 17 February : " I am ...
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... Grant was one general who approved of this system : " I would suggest the policy of paroling all prisoners hereafter and taking a receipt for them from the commanding officer , so that exchanges may all be made on paper . ' 9,13 14 By ...
... Grant was one general who approved of this system : " I would suggest the policy of paroling all prisoners hereafter and taking a receipt for them from the commanding officer , so that exchanges may all be made on paper . ' 9,13 14 By ...
Contents
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Lincoln Spins the Press | 65 |
An Exposition | 79 |
Lincolns Pardons and What They Mean | 99 |
Lincolns Legacy of Political Transcendence | 120 |
Lincoln Leadership and the Thirteenth Amendment | 153 |
Lincolns Role in the Presidential Election of 1864 | 173 |
Mary Lincoln and PostAssassination Memory | 199 |
Lincolns Legacy for Our Time | 214 |
Contributors by Order of Appearance | 234 |
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Page 81 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
Page 81 - What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 136 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men...
Page 229 - The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word "liberty...
Page 79 - 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." When the Know-nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal except negroes and foreigners and Catholics.
Page 81 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be the Union as it was.
Page 81 - 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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 136 - Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
Page 225 - Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 136 - By the frame of the Government under which we live this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance no Administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years.