Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 2Robert Clarke Company, 1903 |
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... EXECUTIVE MANSION , WASHINGTON , Hon . Horace Greeley : — August 22 , 1862 . DEAR SIR : I have just read yours of the 19th , ad- dressed to myself through the New York Tribune . If there be in it any statements or assumptions of fact ...
... EXECUTIVE MANSION , WASHINGTON , Hon . Horace Greeley : — August 22 , 1862 . DEAR SIR : I have just read yours of the 19th , ad- dressed to myself through the New York Tribune . If there be in it any statements or assumptions of fact ...
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... Executive will , on the first day of January aforesaid , by proclamation , des- ignate the States and parts of States , if any , in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States ; and the ...
... Executive will , on the first day of January aforesaid , by proclamation , des- ignate the States and parts of States , if any , in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States ; and the ...
Page 119
... Executive will , in due time , recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion , shall ( upon the restor- ation of the constitutional relation between the United States and ...
... Executive will , in due time , recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion , shall ( upon the restor- ation of the constitutional relation between the United States and ...
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... Executive proclamations conventionally devout , matters little . Lincoln certainly was not , as to the habit of his life , a strict " Sabbatarian . " His religious faith differed from that of Oliver Cromwell ; but was it any less firm ...
... Executive proclamations conventionally devout , matters little . Lincoln certainly was not , as to the habit of his life , a strict " Sabbatarian . " His religious faith differed from that of Oliver Cromwell ; but was it any less firm ...
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... Executive management . As to the conduct of the war , this state of feeling was aggravated by military events which had their disastrous culmination , soon after the session began , under the new commander of the Army of the Potomac ...
... Executive management . As to the conduct of the war , this state of feeling was aggravated by military events which had their disastrous culmination , soon after the session began , under the new commander of the Army of the Potomac ...
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Page 206 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to...
Page 161 - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any 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 334 - 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 by 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 161 - 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 118 - ... 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 and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 334 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge...
Page 205 - We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. " 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 92 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 333 - 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 333 - Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.