The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and Death |
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... party shall have been duly convicted , shall in no wise be pro- hibited by this act . SEO . 8. That for all purposes of this act , the jurisdictional limits of Washington are extended to all parts of the District of Columbia not ...
... party shall have been duly convicted , shall in no wise be pro- hibited by this act . SEO . 8. That for all purposes of this act , the jurisdictional limits of Washington are extended to all parts of the District of Columbia not ...
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... party - though they still called themselves Free Democrats . · There was danger , of course , in such a posture of affairs , and Mr. Lincoln , in that spirit of patriotism which · he has always shown , by his own personal exertions ...
... party - though they still called themselves Free Democrats . · There was danger , of course , in such a posture of affairs , and Mr. Lincoln , in that spirit of patriotism which · he has always shown , by his own personal exertions ...
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... PARTY . - RESULT OF THE CONTEST . THE pressure of the slavery contest at last fully organ- ized the Republican party , which held its first convention for the nomination of President and Vice - President at Philadelphia , on June 17 ...
... PARTY . - RESULT OF THE CONTEST . THE pressure of the slavery contest at last fully organ- ized the Republican party , which held its first convention for the nomination of President and Vice - President at Philadelphia , on June 17 ...
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... party , since it was anticipated that the members of that organ- ization in the Territory would refrain from voting . He ' further indorsed the Dred Scott decision in this same speech , and , in discussing the Utah rebellion , proposed ...
... party , since it was anticipated that the members of that organ- ization in the Territory would refrain from voting . He ' further indorsed the Dred Scott decision in this same speech , and , in discussing the Utah rebellion , proposed ...
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... party for the campaign : - Mr. Popular sovereignty ! everlasting popular sovereignty ! Let us for a moment inquire into this vast matter of popular sovereignty . What is popular sovereignty ? We recollect that at an early period in the ...
... party for the campaign : - Mr. Popular sovereignty ! everlasting popular sovereignty ! Let us for a moment inquire into this vast matter of popular sovereignty . What is popular sovereignty ? We recollect that at an early period in the ...
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Page 671 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 260 - State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 163 - That the maintenance inviolate of the 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 power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes...
Page 260 - That on the first day of January in the year of our 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 and forever free...
Page 670 - Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Page 163 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare...
Page 165 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the National authority.
Page 671 - 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. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.
Page 167 - A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Page 458 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder...