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... VICTORY 1. The War to the End of 1863 2. Conscription and the Politics of 1863 3. The War in 1864 4. The Second Election of Lincoln . XII . THE END BIBLIOGRAPHical Note • CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE INDEX NOTE ON MAP . • 227 227 • 244 • 249 ...
... VICTORY 1. The War to the End of 1863 2. Conscription and the Politics of 1863 3. The War in 1864 4. The Second Election of Lincoln . XII . THE END BIBLIOGRAPHical Note • CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE INDEX NOTE ON MAP . • 227 227 • 244 • 249 ...
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... victory over the British forces at New Orleans . He was a sincere Puritan ; and he had a courtly dignity of manner ; but he was of arbitrary and passionate temper , and he was a sanguinary duellist . His most savage duels , it should be ...
... victory over the British forces at New Orleans . He was a sincere Puritan ; and he had a courtly dignity of manner ; but he was of arbitrary and passionate temper , and he was a sanguinary duellist . His most savage duels , it should be ...
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... victory of reason , and saw no use and a good deal of harm in premature political agitation for them . " All such questions , " he is reported to have said , " must find lodgment with the most enlightened souls who stamp them with their ...
... victory of reason , and saw no use and a good deal of harm in premature political agitation for them . " All such questions , " he is reported to have said , " must find lodgment with the most enlightened souls who stamp them with their ...
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... victory was now being prepared for it , not because a majority was likely yet to take so resolute a view , but because its effective opponents were divided between those who had gone the length of calling slavery right and those who ...
... victory was now being prepared for it , not because a majority was likely yet to take so resolute a view , but because its effective opponents were divided between those who had gone the length of calling slavery right and those who ...
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... victory was assured . A Committee of the Convention , some of them sick at heart , was sent to bear the invitation to Lincoln . He received them in his little house with a simple dignity which one of them has recorded ; and as they came ...
... victory was assured . A Committee of the Convention , some of them sick at heart , was sent to bear the invitation to Lincoln . He received them in his little house with a simple dignity which one of them has recorded ; and as they came ...
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Page 145 - 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 440 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses 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 offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 311 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Page 145 - 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...
Page 438 - 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.
Page 360 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 309 - 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 439 - 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. While the inaugural address...
Page 206 - 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 440 - 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 piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid with another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said, " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.