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... battle seemed imminent , but the wily sav- ages had anticipated the movement , and not one was found . They had pushed further up the river , and broken up into predatory and foraging bands , one of which pounced upon a settlement near ...
... battle seemed imminent , but the wily sav- ages had anticipated the movement , and not one was found . They had pushed further up the river , and broken up into predatory and foraging bands , one of which pounced upon a settlement near ...
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... battle of Bad - Ax was fought which resulted in the capture of Black Hawk himself , with nearly all his warriors . The Black Hawk war was not a very remarkable affair . It made no military reputations , but it was noteworthy in the ...
... battle of Bad - Ax was fought which resulted in the capture of Black Hawk himself , with nearly all his warriors . The Black Hawk war was not a very remarkable affair . It made no military reputations , but it was noteworthy in the ...
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... battle whose trophies were four million freedmen , and a nation re- deemed to justice and humanity . In the meantime , Mr. Lincoln had made no money . He had walked his hundred miles to Vandalia in 1836 , as he did in 1834 , and when ...
... battle whose trophies were four million freedmen , and a nation re- deemed to justice and humanity . In the meantime , Mr. Lincoln had made no money . He had walked his hundred miles to Vandalia in 1836 , as he did in 1834 , and when ...
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... battle , they have endured , and fought , and fallen with you . Clay and Webster each gave a son , never to be returned . From the state of my own residence , besides other worthy but less known whig names , we sent Marshall , Morrison ...
... battle , they have endured , and fought , and fallen with you . Clay and Webster each gave a son , never to be returned . From the state of my own residence , besides other worthy but less known whig names , we sent Marshall , Morrison ...
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... battle , " in consequence of his own foul play , they became strong friends . Jack would fight for Mr. Lincoln at any time , and would never hear him spoken against . Indeed , there were times when young Lincoln made Jack's cabin his ...
... battle , " in consequence of his own foul play , they became strong friends . Jack would fight for Mr. Lincoln at any time , and would never hear him spoken against . Indeed , there were times when young Lincoln made Jack's cabin his ...
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Page 219 - 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 408 - Virginia, and also the counties of Berkely, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and •which exccpted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. " And, by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons
Page 324 - in such extreme tenderness of the citizen's liberty, that, practically, it relieves more of the guilty than the innocent, should, to a very limited extent, be violated? To state the question more directly: are all the laws but one to go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated
Page 159 - follow as fast as circumstances should permit. They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all and revered by all ; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and, even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value of
Page 403 - 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,
Page 291 - the territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. From questions of this class, spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. "if the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the government must cease. There is no alternative for continuing the government but acquiescence on
Page 408 - 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 423 - Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier-boy, who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that, in such a case, to silence the agitator and save the boy, is not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy.
Page 291 - organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. No foresight can anticipate, nor any document of reasonable length contain, express provisions for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor be surrendered by national or by state authorities ? The Constitution
Page 292 - wall between them. A husband and wile may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They can not but remain face to face ; and intercourse,