Portrait Life of Lincoln: Life of Abraham Lincoln, the Greatest American, Told from Original Photographs Taken with His Authority During the Great Crisis Through which He Led His Country--treasured Among the 7000 Secret Service War Negatives in the Brady-Gardner Collection at Springfield, Massachusetts, and in Private Collections, Valued at $150,000, Collected by Edward Bailey Eaton |
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... march , and your foot beats time to the strains of the " Star Spangled Banner " and " Dixie . " The pages are now nearly turned . The last portrait is before you . A shot rings in your ears ; a figure falls prostrate to the floor ; you ...
... march , and your foot beats time to the strains of the " Star Spangled Banner " and " Dixie . " The pages are now nearly turned . The last portrait is before you . A shot rings in your ears ; a figure falls prostrate to the floor ; you ...
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... March , in 1861 , the city of Washington was astir . There was the clatter of cavalry and the tramp of the militia in the streets . The Senate had been in session the whole night long and the drowsy statesmen walked the corridors with ...
... March , in 1861 , the city of Washington was astir . There was the clatter of cavalry and the tramp of the militia in the streets . The Senate had been in session the whole night long and the drowsy statesmen walked the corridors with ...
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... march his armies against the capital of the Con- federacy and conquer it by overwhelming numbers . The generals upon whom he relied , failed to meet the emergencies . The mighty Confederacy strengthened its power of government and ...
... march his armies against the capital of the Con- federacy and conquer it by overwhelming numbers . The generals upon whom he relied , failed to meet the emergencies . The mighty Confederacy strengthened its power of government and ...
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... march into the strongholds of the North , stood in battle - line against the hosts in blue under the Stars and Stripes on the field of Gettysburg . Nearly two hundred thousand strong , they passed through the fire of hell for the sake ...
... march into the strongholds of the North , stood in battle - line against the hosts in blue under the Stars and Stripes on the field of Gettysburg . Nearly two hundred thousand strong , they passed through the fire of hell for the sake ...
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... March , in 1864 , that this little , silent man came quietly to Washington . As he passed through the streets , leading his young son by the hand , he wore an old blue uniform ; there was a well - worn army hat on his head , and a cigar ...
... March , in 1864 , that this little , silent man came quietly to Washington . As he passed through the streets , leading his young son by the hand , he wore an old blue uniform ; there was a well - worn army hat on his head , and a cigar ...
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Page 137 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember, or overthrow it.
Page 140 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 46 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath 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 battlefield 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 30 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 134 - Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?
Page 124 - If any man at this day sincerely believes that a proper division of local from Federal authority, or any part of the Constitution, forbids the Federal Government to control as to slavery in the Federal Territories...
Page 124 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now.
Page 140 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of...
Page 133 - ... rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to Its own judgment exclusively, Is essential to that balance of...
Page 137 - I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution — which amendment, however, I have not seen — has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said...