This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men... Lincoln in American Memory - Page 385by Merrill D. Peterson - 1995 - 496 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view the rights of men and the authority of the people? land and naval forces are underbid orders uibeir eomniander-in-chtaf. But his power maintai ing in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the... | |
| John Savage - Presidents - 1866 - 610 pages
...in his recent message to the Congress of the United States. In that message the President said : " This is essentially a people's contest. On the side...pursuit for all ; to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life. Yielding to partial and temporary departures, from necessity, this... | |
| J. Arthur Partridge - United States - 1866 - 566 pages
...selected a President, a Cabinet, a Congress, abundantly competent to administer the government itself. * * This is essentially a people's contest. On the side...government, whose leading object is to elevate the condition ofmen, — to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, — to afford all an unfettered start, and... | |
| United States - 1863 - 302 pages
...Why ? Why this deliberate pressing out of view the rights of men and tlie authoriiy of the people ? " This is essentially a people's contest. On the side...the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the wortd that form and substance of government, whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men... | |
| Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania - 1927 - 244 pages
...crisis, in his message to the Special Session of Congress on July 4, 1861, when he said : "On the part of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the...condition of men, to lift artificial weights from the shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all, to afford all a fair chance in the... | |
| Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 848 pages
...his immortal messages to congress, said among other things, that "The leading object [of government] is to elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial...pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life." Not much monopoly in this. This is the plain phrase of the people... | |
| James Quay Howard - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 266 pages
...settled on the basis of impartial justice. They mean that the State of Ohio, in this great progress, "whose leading object is to elevate the condition...from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life," shall tread... | |
| Russell H. Conwell - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 352 pages
...on the basis of impartial justice. " They mean that the State of Ohio in this great progress — ' whose leading object is to elevate the condition of...to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life ' — shall tread no step backward.... | |
| Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 542 pages
...decisive one ... at least four hundred thousand men and four hundred million dollars.'* It stated, " This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men. . .... | |
| Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 538 pages
...decisive one ... at least four hundred thousand men and four hundred million dollars/* It stated, " This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men. ...... | |
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