Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1F. D. Tandy Company, 1905 |
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... suppose I may enter upon it without claiming the honor , or risking the danger which may await its first explorer . It seems as though we are never to have an end to this baneful and corroding sys- tem , acting almost as prejudicially ...
... suppose I may enter upon it without claiming the honor , or risking the danger which may await its first explorer . It seems as though we are never to have an end to this baneful and corroding sys- tem , acting almost as prejudicially ...
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... Suppose this to be true , are we to send a committee of this House to en- quire into it ? Suppose the committee should , find it true , can they redress the injured individ- uals ? Assuredly not . If any individual had been injured in ...
... Suppose this to be true , are we to send a committee of this House to en- quire into it ? Suppose the committee should , find it true , can they redress the injured individ- uals ? Assuredly not . If any individual had been injured in ...
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... suppose that the commissioners acted corruptly , by also sup- posing that they were bribed to do so . Taking this view of the subject , I would ask if the Bank is likely to find it more difficult to bribe the com- mittee of seven ...
... suppose that the commissioners acted corruptly , by also sup- posing that they were bribed to do so . Taking this view of the subject , I would ask if the Bank is likely to find it more difficult to bribe the com- mittee of seven ...
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... suppose you could affect your whole purpose ; suppose you could wipe the Bank from existence , which is the grand ultimatum of the project , what would be the consequence ? Why , sir , we should spend several thousand dol- lars of the ...
... suppose you could affect your whole purpose ; suppose you could wipe the Bank from existence , which is the grand ultimatum of the project , what would be the consequence ? Why , sir , we should spend several thousand dol- lars of the ...
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... suppose danger to our political institutions ? Have we not pre- served them for more than fifty years ? And why may we not for fifty times as long ? " We hope there is no sufficient reason . We hope all danger may be overcome ; but to ...
... suppose danger to our political institutions ? Have we not pre- served them for more than fifty years ? And why may we not for fifty times as long ? " We hope there is no sufficient reason . We hope all danger may be overcome ; but to ...
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Page xxvi - Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
Page 207 - ... .Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Page xxi - That is the issue that will continue in this country, when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles— right and wrong— throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same...
Page xxx - Dear Madam : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may...
Page xx - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work — who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle...
Page 159 - I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell ; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible ; I must die or be better, it appears to me.
Page xxv - ... discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now ? — now — when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail — if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.
Page 7 - Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
Page 345 - ... it had ever before been thought men could not do— after all this, this same President gives us a long message, without showing us that as to the end he himself has even an imaginary conception. As I have before said, he knows not where he is. He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserably perplexed man. God grant he may be able to show there is not something about his conscience more painful than all his mental perplexity.
Page 51 - Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having 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 the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.