Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Including the Lincoln-Douglas DebateMoffat, Yard, 1911 - 110 pages |
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... Court of the United States and its decision . I ask you , Are you in favor of conferring upon the negro the rights and privileges of citizenship ? Do you de- sire to strike out of our State constitution that clause which keeps slaves ...
... Court of the United States and its decision . I ask you , Are you in favor of conferring upon the negro the rights and privileges of citizenship ? Do you de- sire to strike out of our State constitution that clause which keeps slaves ...
Page 83
... court in Taze- well County . It is true they did place my name , though without authority , upon the committee , and afterward wrote me to attend the meeting of the committee ; but I refused to do so , and I never had anything to do ...
... court in Taze- well County . It is true they did place my name , though without authority , upon the committee , and afterward wrote me to attend the meeting of the committee ; but I refused to do so , and I never had anything to do ...
Page 105
... Court to decide that no State under the Constitu- tion can exclude it , just as they have already de- cided that under the Constitution neither Congress nor the Territorial legislature can do it . When that is decided and acquiesced in ...
... Court to decide that no State under the Constitu- tion can exclude it , just as they have already de- cided that under the Constitution neither Congress nor the Territorial legislature can do it . When that is decided and acquiesced in ...
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... court ; and , being decided by the court , he is , and you are , bound to take it in your political action as law , -not that he judges at all of its merits , but because a decision of the court is to him a " Thus saith the Lord . " He ...
... court ; and , being decided by the court , he is , and you are , bound to take it in your political action as law , -not that he judges at all of its merits , but because a decision of the court is to him a " Thus saith the Lord . " He ...
Page 107
... Court of Illinois because they had decided that a Governor could not remove a Sec- retary of State . You will find ... court will have to be catechised beforehand upon some subject , I say , " You know , Judge ; you have tried it ...
... Court of Illinois because they had decided that a Governor could not remove a Sec- retary of State . You will find ... court will have to be catechised beforehand upon some subject , I say , " You know , Judge ; you have tried it ...
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Page 102 - 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 55 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 51 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 58 - 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 24 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Page 88 - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 73 - 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...
Page 43 - 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 authority? The Constitution does not expressly say.
Page 44 - ... be controlled by such a minority. For instance, why not any portion of a new confederacy, a year or two hence, arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it?
Page 27 - Now, as we have already said in an earlier part of this opinion, upon a different point, the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.