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 - 80 pages |
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... nations come and go , republics flourish and wither , dynasties pass away like a tale that is told ; but nothing is by chance , though men , in their ignorance of causes , may think so . The deeds of time are governed , as well as ...
... nations come and go , republics flourish and wither , dynasties pass away like a tale that is told ; but nothing is by chance , though men , in their ignorance of causes , may think so . The deeds of time are governed , as well as ...
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... the Teutonic method of representation ; the political experience of England ; the benignant wisdom of the expositors of the law of nature and of nations in • France and Holland , all shed on her their selectest 4 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF.
... the Teutonic method of representation ; the political experience of England ; the benignant wisdom of the expositors of the law of nature and of nations in • France and Holland , all shed on her their selectest 4 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF.
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... nation , a just idea gives life , and pro- gress , and glory ; a false conception portends disaster , shame , and death . A hundred and twenty years ago a West Jersey Quaker wrote : " This trade of importing slaves is dark gloominess ...
... nation , a just idea gives life , and pro- gress , and glory ; a false conception portends disaster , shame , and death . A hundred and twenty years ago a West Jersey Quaker wrote : " This trade of importing slaves is dark gloominess ...
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... nation was reserved for the labor of freemen . The hope prevailed in Virginia that the abolition of the slave - trade would bring with it the gradual aboli- tion of slavery ; but the expectation was doomed to disappointment . In ...
... nation was reserved for the labor of freemen . The hope prevailed in Virginia that the abolition of the slave - trade would bring with it the gradual aboli- tion of slavery ; but the expectation was doomed to disappointment . In ...
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... nation labors - a porten- tous evil - an evil , moral , political , and economical - a sad blot on our free country " -went mournfully into old age with the cheerless words : " No satisfactory plan has yet been devised for taking out ...
... nation labors - a porten- tous evil - an evil , moral , political , and economical - a sad blot on our free country " -went mournfully into old age with the cheerless words : " No satisfactory plan has yet been devised for taking out ...
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Abraham Lincoln Almighty America appointed aristocracy Army and Navy assassin bereavement blessing British Capitol Chairman Chief Justice civil colonization Committee concurrent resolutions Constitution continent dead death Declaration duty E. B. WASHBURNE elected emancipation England eternity Europe evil father February forever free labor freedom funeral GEORGE BANCROFT glory Greece heart honor hour House of Representatives Houses of Congress human Illinois Jefferson knew land late President legislature liberty Lord Russell Madison mankind millions nation nature negro never Ohio orator Palmerston party peace political President pro tempore Quakers rebellion received recognise republic of Mexico Republican requested Resolved Senate Senate and House shadow slave slavery solemn SOLOMON FOOT sorrow Speaker's table statesmen SUMNER Supreme Court Territories thank Thee thanks of Congress Thou didst thought thousand tion triumph unanimously Union United victory Virginia Washington wealth West wisdom words
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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 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 - 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 58 - 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 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 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.
Page 4 - From whatever there was of good in the systems of former centuries she drew her nourishment; the wrecks of the past were her warnings. With the deepest sentiment of faith fixed in her inmost nature, she disenthralled religion from bondage to temporal power, that her worship might be worship only in spirit and in truth.
Page 58 - Senate to consider and report by what token of respect and affection it may be proper for the Congress of the United States...