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 DeathDerby and Miller, 1865 - 808 страници Includes added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by F.B. Carpenter. |
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... majority of nine hundred and fourteen votes , he astonished himself and his friends by rolling up a major- ity of fifteen hundred and eleven . To add to the signifi- cance of his triumph , he was the only Whig representative from ...
... majority of nine hundred and fourteen votes , he astonished himself and his friends by rolling up a major- ity of fifteen hundred and eleven . To add to the signifi- cance of his triumph , he was the only Whig representative from ...
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... majority of them , or any of them , have ever submitted themselves to the government or laws of Texas or of the United States , by consent or by compulsion , either by accepting office , or voting at elections , or paying tax , or ...
... majority of them , or any of them , have ever submitted themselves to the government or laws of Texas or of the United States , by consent or by compulsion , either by accepting office , or voting at elections , or paying tax , or ...
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... majority of them be found to be for this act , to forthwith issue his pro- clamation giving notice of the fact ; and this act shall only be in full force and effect on and after the day of such proclamation . SEC . 7. That involuntary ...
... majority of them be found to be for this act , to forthwith issue his pro- clamation giving notice of the fact ; and this act shall only be in full force and effect on and after the day of such proclamation . SEC . 7. That involuntary ...
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... majority report . The others , not being slaveholders , reported against the bill . The ground taken by the majority was , that slaves were regarded as property by the Constitution , and when taken for public service should be paid for ...
... majority report . The others , not being slaveholders , reported against the bill . The ground taken by the majority was , that slaves were regarded as property by the Constitution , and when taken for public service should be paid for ...
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... majority . Judge Douglas's term was on the eve of expiring , and he came home to Illinois after the adjournment of Con- gress , to attend in person to the political campaign , upon the result of which was to depend his re - election to ...
... majority . Judge Douglas's term was on the eve of expiring , and he came home to Illinois after the adjournment of Con- gress , to attend in person to the political campaign , upon the result of which was to depend his re - election to ...
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Страница 258 - 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 260 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the parishes of St.
Страница 162 - 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...
Страница 50 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Страница 258 - 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 258 - ... 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...
Страница 358 - 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. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Страница 251 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
Страница 229 - Resolved that the United States ought to co-operate with any state which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such state pecuniary aid, to be used by such state in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences public and private, produced by such change of system.
Страница 241 - ... and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them and coming under the control of the Government of the United States...