Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln: Delivered, at the Request of Both Houses of the Congress of America, Before Them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, on the 12th of February, 1866U.S. Government Printing Office, 1866 - 69 pages |
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... Tennessee , twelve hundred miles , in seven days . On the long marches , wonders of military construction bridged the rivers , and wherever an army halted , ample supplies awaited them at their ever - changing base . The vile thought ...
... Tennessee , twelve hundred miles , in seven days . On the long marches , wonders of military construction bridged the rivers , and wherever an army halted , ample supplies awaited them at their ever - changing base . The vile thought ...
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... Tennessee to the highlands of Alabama . But it invoked the still higher power of immortal justice . In ancient Greece , where servitude was the universal custom , it was held that if a child were to strike its parent , the slave should ...
... Tennessee to the highlands of Alabama . But it invoked the still higher power of immortal justice . In ancient Greece , where servitude was the universal custom , it was held that if a child were to strike its parent , the slave should ...
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... Tennessee to the highlands of Alabama . But it invoked the still higher power of immortal justice . In ancient Greece , where servitude was the universal custom , it was held that if a child were to strike its parent , the slave should ...
... Tennessee to the highlands of Alabama . But it invoked the still higher power of immortal justice . In ancient Greece , where servitude was the universal custom , it was held that if a child were to strike its parent , the slave should ...
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... Tennessee to the highlands of Alabama . But it invoked the still higher power of immortal justice . In ancient Greece , where servitude was the universal custom , it was held that if a child were to strike its parent , the slave should ...
... Tennessee to the highlands of Alabama . But it invoked the still higher power of immortal justice . In ancient Greece , where servitude was the universal custom , it was held that if a child were to strike its parent , the slave should ...
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... Tennessee to the highlands of Alabama . But it invoked the still higher power of immortal justice . In ancient Greece , where servitude was the universal custom , it was held that if a child were to strike its parent , the slave should ...
... Tennessee to the highlands of Alabama . But it invoked the still higher power of immortal justice . In ancient Greece , where servitude was the universal custom , it was held that if a child were to strike its parent , the slave should ...
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Page 8 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 19 - I cannot but know what you all know, that, without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his country...
Page 19 - A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of WASHINGTON. He never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid whi.ch sustained him, and on the same Almighty . Being I place my reliance for support, and I hope you, my friends, will all pray that I may receive that Divine assistance, without which I cannot succeed, but...
Page 20 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Page 44 - Resolved, That a committee be appointed on the part of this House, to join such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait on the President of the United States, and inform him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled, and that Congress is now ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make.
Page 44 - House, to join such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to consider and report by what token of respect and affection it may be proper for the Congress of the United States...
Page 24 - He deemed it proper to say, that the first service assigned to the forces thereby called forth would probably be " to repossess the forts, places, and property which had been seized from the Union...
Page 31 - It is of a very strange nature ;" " a measure of war of a very questionable kind;" an act "of vengeance on the slave owner," that does no more than " profess to emancipate slaves where the United States authorities cannot make emancipation a reality." Now there was no part of the country embraced in the proclamation where the United States could not and did not make emancipation a reality.
Page 21 - States, after having first used all peaceful and constitutional means to obtain redress, would be justified in revolutionary resistance to the government of the Union.
Page 20 - But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.