Abraham Lincoln: A LectureC.P. Farrell, 1907 - 100 pages |
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aided to infuse American army Beware of rashness brain break chains CALIFORNIA ABRAHAM LINCOLN candid Chase COLN commander and withholding commissioners compensated emancipation Confederacy crisis defended destroy the phantoms destroy the Union endeavored enemies England extreme Democrat extremists fear felt fight flag friends genius gentle give further orders Government grandest Greeley heart Hooker Horace Greeley house divided humor of Lincoln Illinois INGERSOLL Kentucky knew laws laws of war letter Lincoln replied Lincoln stood lived loving ment merciful millions Nation negro never orator pardon party patient peace perfect political parties politicians President Proclamation of Emancipation purchase pursued by Lincoln Rebellion rebels Republic Republican ROBERT G sake of liberty sake of slavery satisfied save the Union scheme Secession Shakespeare slaves in Delaware solidified the North soul South speech stars Stephens sublime things thought tion unconsciously Vallandigham victory VIMU vote Wax Wurx wished withholding confidence words
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Page 73 - ... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 23 - 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 72 - Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer.
Page 72 - I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier, which of course I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable if not an indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but I think that during...
Page 53 - Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost.
Page 72 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 53 - But negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise, being made, must be kept.
Page 22 - States of free territory, and the highest court solemnly and ignorantly decided that colored men and women had no rights. Men who insisted that freedom was better than slavery, and that mothers should not be robbed of their babes, were hated, despised and mobbed. Mr. Douglas voiced the feelings of millions when he declared that he did not care whether slavery was voted up or down.
Page 27 - 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 cords 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 27 - Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you...