Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. Showing the Inner Growth, Special Training, and Peculiar Fitness of the Man for His Work |
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... called " educated " while ignorant of them . He went at once to Mr. Graham , the school- master of New Salem , and asked him questions about grammar . " I have a notion to study it . " " If you ever expect to go before the public in any ...
... called " educated " while ignorant of them . He went at once to Mr. Graham , the school- master of New Salem , and asked him questions about grammar . " I have a notion to study it . " " If you ever expect to go before the public in any ...
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... called out , and gone to the frontier instead of into the store and mill . Now there was something on hand more serious than a mere " muster , " for nearly the same men were organizing a company for active service . The choice of a ...
... called out , and gone to the frontier instead of into the store and mill . Now there was something on hand more serious than a mere " muster , " for nearly the same men were organizing a company for active service . The choice of a ...
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... called for two thousand men to take the places of the disbanded regiments , and a large number of the discharged men re - enlisted at once . Officers became privates rather than go home in such an inglorious fashion . General Whiteside ...
... called for two thousand men to take the places of the disbanded regiments , and a large number of the discharged men re - enlisted at once . Officers became privates rather than go home in such an inglorious fashion . General Whiteside ...
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... called for should be honestly and faithfully done . The temptations to carelessness and cor- ruption were many . Mr. Calhoun knew Abe Lincoln and trusted him thoroughly . He also knew him to be ignorant of surveying , but he went to see ...
... called for should be honestly and faithfully done . The temptations to carelessness and cor- ruption were many . Mr. Calhoun knew Abe Lincoln and trusted him thoroughly . He also knew him to be ignorant of surveying , but he went to see ...
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... called it " brain - fever . " On the 25th of August , just before the summer died , she passed away from earth . But she never faded from the heart of Abraham Lincoln . She lived there in love and memory to the very last . In her early ...
... called it " brain - fever . " On the 25th of August , just before the summer died , she passed away from earth . But she never faded from the heart of Abraham Lincoln . She lived there in love and memory to the very last . In her early ...
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Page 465 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 449 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Page 368 - 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, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate, as the States...
Page 466 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 171 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 450 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 368 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the fortyeight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...
Page 465 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 336 - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 450 - 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...