Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Including Inaugurals and ProclamationsA.L. Burt Company, 1906 - 417 pages |
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... matter is surely to - day in need of no further argument , any more than there is need to argue again the question , also once rife , as to the religious character of the great President and the precise complexion of his religious ...
... matter is surely to - day in need of no further argument , any more than there is need to argue again the question , also once rife , as to the religious character of the great President and the precise complexion of his religious ...
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... matters affecting his personal honor . As a speaker in and out of the Legislature , he interested his audiences by his effective utterances , set forth in plain , terse language , seasoned with humor and at times with a biting wit . His ...
... matters affecting his personal honor . As a speaker in and out of the Legislature , he interested his audiences by his effective utterances , set forth in plain , terse language , seasoned with humor and at times with a biting wit . His ...
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... matters advanced rapidly , and Mr. Seward , Honest Abe's chief rival for the Presi- dency , was soon to hear of the two great political parties ranging themselves in hostile array , and to see the North dividing itself into a ...
... matters advanced rapidly , and Mr. Seward , Honest Abe's chief rival for the Presi- dency , was soon to hear of the two great political parties ranging themselves in hostile array , and to see the North dividing itself into a ...
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... matters overriding the wise , legitimate counsels of his Cabinet . The aggressive act of the Confederacy in its attack on Fort Sumter , while it startled the North and inflamed its people with a righteous indignation , was promptly and ...
... matters overriding the wise , legitimate counsels of his Cabinet . The aggressive act of the Confederacy in its attack on Fort Sumter , while it startled the North and inflamed its people with a righteous indignation , was promptly and ...
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... matter of selecting and appointing the generals - in - chief placed a heavy responsibility upon the President's shoulders , and often , unfortunately , was he called to this duty , in consequence of the successive failures or tardi ...
... matter of selecting and appointing the generals - in - chief placed a heavy responsibility upon the President's shoulders , and often , unfortunately , was he called to this duty , in consequence of the successive failures or tardi ...
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Page 52 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 312 - 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 103 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 309 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare...
Page 319 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 409 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself ; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it.
Page 205 - 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...
Page 62 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. '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.
Page 410 - 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...
Page 370 - I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by congress, or by decision of the supreme court...