Abraham LincolnHolt, 1916 - 479 pages |
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... later settlers found yet further West when the development of railways , of agricultural machinery , and of Eastern or European markets had opened out to cultivation the enormous stretches of level grass plain beyond the Mississippi ...
... later settlers found yet further West when the development of railways , of agricultural machinery , and of Eastern or European markets had opened out to cultivation the enormous stretches of level grass plain beyond the Mississippi ...
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... later letters to this companion of his youth deserve to be looked up in the eight large volumes called his Works , for it is hard to see how a man could speak or act better to an impecunious friend who would not face his own troubles ...
... later letters to this companion of his youth deserve to be looked up in the eight large volumes called his Works , for it is hard to see how a man could speak or act better to an impecunious friend who would not face his own troubles ...
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... later when he had been nominated for the presidency he was asked for material for an account of his early life . " Why , " he said , " it is a great folly to attempt to make anything out of me or my early life . It can all be condensed ...
... later when he had been nominated for the presidency he was asked for material for an account of his early life . " Why , " he said , " it is a great folly to attempt to make anything out of me or my early life . It can all be condensed ...
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... later he was at work near his cabin with Mordecai , Josiah , and Thomas , his sons , when a shot from the bushes near by brought him down . Mordecai ran to the house , Josiah to a fort , which was close to them . Thomas , aged six ...
... later he was at work near his cabin with Mordecai , Josiah , and Thomas , his sons , when a shot from the bushes near by brought him down . Mordecai ran to the house , Josiah to a fort , which was close to them . Thomas , aged six ...
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... later letters to this companion of his youth deserve to be looked up in the eight large volumes called his Works , for it is hard to see how a man could speak or act better to an impecunious friend who would not face his own troubles ...
... later letters to this companion of his youth deserve to be looked up in the eight large volumes called his Works , for it is hard to see how a man could speak or act better to an impecunious friend who would not face his own troubles ...
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Page 117 - 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 412 - 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 174 - Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Page 283 - 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 332 - 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 161 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Page 178 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 281 - 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 178 - 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 412 - 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.