Abraham LincolnHarper & Brothers, 1893 - 542 pages |
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... Constitution and the Union . He wrote out his thoughts several years before Daniel Webster uttered the words , " The Constitution and the Union now and forever one and inseparable . " Winter came , and there were so few travellers that ...
... Constitution and the Union . He wrote out his thoughts several years before Daniel Webster uttered the words , " The Constitution and the Union now and forever one and inseparable . " Winter came , and there were so few travellers that ...
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... Constitution of the United States which counted slaves in the basis of representation in Congress , and through the rapid increase of slaves , the institution had " I CANNOT BEAR TO SEE EVEN A PUPPY IN 50 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... Constitution of the United States which counted slaves in the basis of representation in Congress , and through the rapid increase of slaves , the institution had " I CANNOT BEAR TO SEE EVEN A PUPPY IN 50 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... Constitution and the Union which electrified the country ; Pres- ident Jackson uttered a solemn oath that the Union should be pre- served . All of which was interesting reading to Lincoln . The partners thought they might make money by ...
... Constitution and the Union which electrified the country ; Pres- ident Jackson uttered a solemn oath that the Union should be pre- served . All of which was interesting reading to Lincoln . The partners thought they might make money by ...
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... constitution and laws of the State . James G. Birney , who lived in Kentucky , was a lawyer and also a minister , arguing cases in court dur- ing the week and preaching on Sunday . He was a slave - holder , but did not think it right to ...
... constitution and laws of the State . James G. Birney , who lived in Kentucky , was a lawyer and also a minister , arguing cases in court dur- ing the week and preaching on Sunday . He was a slave - holder , but did not think it right to ...
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... Constitution ad- mitting slavery had been submitted to the people , which was rejected by a majority of only 1800 votes in a total of nearly 11,000 . On the last day of the session of 1836 a member of the Legislature introduced a series ...
... Constitution ad- mitting slavery had been submitted to the people , which was rejected by a majority of only 1800 votes in a total of nearly 11,000 . On the last day of the session of 1836 a member of the Legislature introduced a series ...
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Page 238 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend
Page 354 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 354 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 110 - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!
Page 487 - 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...
Page 402 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain.
Page 487 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 217 - My Friends, No one not in my situation can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. 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.
Page 347 - The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south.
Page 336 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.