Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the PeopleMacmillan, 1899 - 433 pages This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. |
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... kind of travel through the prairies and scattered villages , the thirteen rela- tives landed at a point about ten miles west of De- catur , Macon County , Illinois , a spot selected by John Hanks , a relative who already lived there ...
... kind of travel through the prairies and scattered villages , the thirteen rela- tives landed at a point about ten miles west of De- catur , Macon County , Illinois , a spot selected by John Hanks , a relative who already lived there ...
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... kind , including some stump speeches . At the first of these , it is related , he inter- rupted himself to stop by forcible interference a fight in the audience in which a friend was being worsted by an opponent . He was run- ning ...
... kind , including some stump speeches . At the first of these , it is related , he inter- rupted himself to stop by forcible interference a fight in the audience in which a friend was being worsted by an opponent . He was run- ning ...
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... kind of a poet he would have been . Byron's " dream was one of the things he liked , and one of his prime favorites contained these thoughts : - " Tell me , ye winged winds That round my pathway roar , Do ye not know some spot Where ...
... kind of a poet he would have been . Byron's " dream was one of the things he liked , and one of his prime favorites contained these thoughts : - " Tell me , ye winged winds That round my pathway roar , Do ye not know some spot Where ...
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... into wrinkles , but from her want of teeth , weather- beaten appearance in general , and from a kind of notion . that ran in my head that nothing could have commenced In at the size of infancy and reached her present bulk 68 ABRAHAM ...
... into wrinkles , but from her want of teeth , weather- beaten appearance in general , and from a kind of notion . that ran in my head that nothing could have commenced In at the size of infancy and reached her present bulk 68 ABRAHAM ...
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... kind laws Hast lost the power to know . " O death thou awe - inspiring prince That keep'st the world in fear , Why dost thou tear more blest ones hence , And leave him lingering here ? " In sending this to a friend , Lincoln lightens it ...
... kind laws Hast lost the power to know . " O death thou awe - inspiring prince That keep'st the world in fear , Why dost thou tear more blest ones hence , And leave him lingering here ? " In sending this to a friend , Lincoln lightens it ...
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Page 131 - 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...
Page 269 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
Page 185 - I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 405 - O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Page 400 - 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 312 - I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it ; and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 269 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; 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 368 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected.
Page 166 - Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence : Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy ; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being...
Page 323 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...