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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... passed through a harder experience than he did in going from Thompson's Ferry to Spenser County , Indiana . " Thus , before he was eight years old , Abraham Lincoln began the serious business of life . The cabin in which the family ...
... passed through a harder experience than he did in going from Thompson's Ferry to Spenser County , Indiana . " Thus , before he was eight years old , Abraham Lincoln began the serious business of life . The cabin in which the family ...
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... passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session , the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same . " They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy ; but that ...
... passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session , the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same . " They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy ; but that ...
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... passed May 22 , 1854 , and the event gave new and increased force to the popular feel- ing in favor of freedom , which the proposition to repeal the Missouri Compromise had excited . Everywhere the friends of freedom gathered themselves ...
... passed May 22 , 1854 , and the event gave new and increased force to the popular feel- ing in favor of freedom , which the proposition to repeal the Missouri Compromise had excited . Everywhere the friends of freedom gathered themselves ...
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... passed through Congress on April 30th , 1858 , under what is known as the English Bill , whereby the Constitution was to be submitted to the votes of the people of Kansas , with the offer of heavy bribes to them , in the way of ...
... passed through Congress on April 30th , 1858 , under what is known as the English Bill , whereby the Constitution was to be submitted to the votes of the people of Kansas , with the offer of heavy bribes to them , in the way of ...
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... passed in the years preceding , and in his speech to the Convention which nominated him , signifying his accept- ance of the honor conferred upon him , he expressed him- self so unreservedly and frankly that even his supporters were for ...
... passed in the years preceding , and in his speech to the Convention which nominated him , signifying his accept- ance of the honor conferred upon him , he expressed him- self so unreservedly and frankly that even his supporters were for ...
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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...