Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public ServicesB.B. Russell, 1865 - 216 страници |
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... written by different pens , and of varying size , style , and merit . But the field is open to all ; and no one has a right to monopolize it , and thus prohibit others from labor in the same direction . Every new book finds new readers ...
... written by different pens , and of varying size , style , and merit . But the field is open to all ; and no one has a right to monopolize it , and thus prohibit others from labor in the same direction . Every new book finds new readers ...
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... writing letters for his neighbors . - President Lincoln never forgot his mother . It was very long before the loneliness and desolation of that sad bereavement passed away . Her lessons of divinest wisdom he kept stored in his heart ...
... writing letters for his neighbors . - President Lincoln never forgot his mother . It was very long before the loneliness and desolation of that sad bereavement passed away . Her lessons of divinest wisdom he kept stored in his heart ...
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... writing . His appearance was in keeping with his humble home . He was arrayed in buckskin clothes , with a raccoon - skin cap , and carried an old arithmetic , which had been in- dustriously sought for his benefit . " His progress was ...
... writing . His appearance was in keeping with his humble home . He was arrayed in buckskin clothes , with a raccoon - skin cap , and carried an old arithmetic , which had been in- dustriously sought for his benefit . " His progress was ...
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... opportunities for extensive reading . He is said to have written out a synopsis of every book he read , and thus to have fixed the contents in his memory . About this time , John Calhoun , afterwards President of 40 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... opportunities for extensive reading . He is said to have written out a synopsis of every book he read , and thus to have fixed the contents in his memory . About this time , John Calhoun , afterwards President of 40 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... written on every feature , and accompanied by his half - hoping , half - despairing mother , whose only hope was in a mother's belief of her son's innocence , in the justice of the God she wor- shipped , and in the noble counsel , who ...
... written on every feature , and accompanied by his half - hoping , half - despairing mother , whose only hope was in a mother's belief of her son's innocence , in the justice of the God she wor- shipped , and in the noble counsel , who ...
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Страница 144 - ... 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...
Страница 123 - In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the National authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts...
Страница 149 - In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth.
Страница 59 - Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren : and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.
Страница 144 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans ; Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...
Страница 193 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Страница 143 - 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...
Страница 194 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses 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 offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Страница 183 - tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death ; From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : — Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Страница 125 - All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guarantees and prohibitions in the Constitution, that controversies never arise concerning them. But no organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. No foresight can anticipate, nor any document of reasonable length contain, express provisions for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor...