Lincoln Reshapes the PresidencyCharles M. Hubbard How Abraham Lincoln redefined the presidency |
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... Nicolay resign . Nicolay's principal asset to Lincoln may have been an absolute loyalty . There was never a hint that he might violate the president's trust . Also , Nicolay could be counted upon to represent the commander in chief ...
... Nicolay resign . Nicolay's principal asset to Lincoln may have been an absolute loyalty . There was never a hint that he might violate the president's trust . Also , Nicolay could be counted upon to represent the commander in chief ...
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... Nicolay and Mary Todd Lincoln became especially strained over such things as the guest list to White House ... Nicolay's eyes lost the ability to adjust to light , forcing him to work in near darkness , while Helen , basking in ...
... Nicolay and Mary Todd Lincoln became especially strained over such things as the guest list to White House ... Nicolay's eyes lost the ability to adjust to light , forcing him to work in near darkness , while Helen , basking in ...
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... her letters be destroyed . Nicolay grudgingly complied , but for some unexplained reason , Therena kept the letters she received . Despite exercising one's imagination to the fullest , Nicolay's letters 54 LINCOLN RESHAPES THE PRESIDENCY.
... her letters be destroyed . Nicolay grudgingly complied , but for some unexplained reason , Therena kept the letters she received . Despite exercising one's imagination to the fullest , Nicolay's letters 54 LINCOLN RESHAPES THE PRESIDENCY.
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Charles M. Hubbard. Despite exercising one's imagination to the fullest , Nicolay's letters to Therena scarcely ... Nicolay sent to Therena just after president Lincoln's first inauguration : If I had not been for years educating myself ...
Charles M. Hubbard. Despite exercising one's imagination to the fullest , Nicolay's letters to Therena scarcely ... Nicolay sent to Therena just after president Lincoln's first inauguration : If I had not been for years educating myself ...
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... Nicolay's health was good , except perhaps for the hint of a future problem with his eyes . That very summer he had had the exhilarating experience of hunting buffalo from horseback in both the Nebraska Territory and the Colorado ...
... Nicolay's health was good , except perhaps for the hint of a future problem with his eyes . That very summer he had had the exhilarating experience of hunting buffalo from horseback in both the Nebraska Territory and the Colorado ...
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.