Life of Abraham Lincoln: For the Young Man and the Sabbath SchoolWestern Tract and Book Society, 1868 - 200 pages |
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... efforts . He was most successful , and the house approved the glorious triumph of truth by loud and long - con- tinued huzzas . He exhibited the bill in all its aspects , to show its humbuggery and falsehood ; and when thus torn to ...
... efforts . He was most successful , and the house approved the glorious triumph of truth by loud and long - con- tinued huzzas . He exhibited the bill in all its aspects , to show its humbuggery and falsehood ; and when thus torn to ...
Page 80
... efforts were made by the friends of each to secure the nomination of their candidate . Mr. Seward had thus far in his life been an able , tolerably consistent , and very eloquent friend of freedom . He was recognized as the most ...
... efforts were made by the friends of each to secure the nomination of their candidate . Mr. Seward had thus far in his life been an able , tolerably consistent , and very eloquent friend of freedom . He was recognized as the most ...
Page 87
... effort to disabuse the minds . of the rebels , and bring them peaceably back to their allegiance . His absorbing desire to avert the horrors of war overshadowed every other thought , and he plead with those determined trai- tors.
... effort to disabuse the minds . of the rebels , and bring them peaceably back to their allegiance . His absorbing desire to avert the horrors of war overshadowed every other thought , and he plead with those determined trai- tors.
Page 121
... effort with contempt and often with insolence . When his army was wast- ing in his ill - fated peninsular campaign , he busied himself in writing pretentious instructions to the President in regard to his proper policy ; all of which he ...
... effort with contempt and often with insolence . When his army was wast- ing in his ill - fated peninsular campaign , he busied himself in writing pretentious instructions to the President in regard to his proper policy ; all of which he ...
Page 123
... effort was made to con- vince the people that his efforts to destroy the rebellion were , in reality , made to supplant re- publican institutions by a monarchy , with him- self as the autocrat . These false accusations and vile epithets ...
... effort was made to con- vince the people that his efforts to destroy the rebellion were , in reality , made to supplant re- publican institutions by a monarchy , with him- self as the autocrat . These false accusations and vile epithets ...
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Abraham Lincoln afterward Almighty American civil war army assassin battle became BLACK HAWK WAR bless broken fetters cabin called cast cause CHAPTER Christian coln confidence death defeat Douglas Dred Scott election Executive Government eyes father Ford's Theater freedmen freedom friends God's Government hand heart honesty honor hope human hundred thousand Illinois James Buchanan Jesus justice knew labor lady land lawyer liberty LINCOLN AND SLAVERY Lincoln replied LINCOLN STORIES little Abe lived looked Lord McClellan ment mind moral mother named nation neighbors never night ox-wagon pardon party passed patriot pleasure political Pres President principle pro-slavery rebel rebellion Republican RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE river Sangamon River Savior seized slave power slaves soldiers sorrow sought spirit Springfield success tears theater tion toil took traitorous triumph truth Union Union armies woods young
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Page 147 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free ; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Page 148 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 154 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.
Page 88 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 149 - 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 156 - To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received and considered by the Executive Government of the United States, and will be met by liberal terms on other substantial and collateral points; and the bearer or bearers thereof shall have safe conduct both ways. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Page 150 - 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 with 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 85 - No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of WASHINGTON.
Page 116 - The hand of the king that the scepter hath borne, The brow of the priest, that the mitre hath worn, The eye of the sage and the heart of the brave Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave.
Page 111 - The President, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the military and naval service. The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the divine will demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity.