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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... slaves is dark gloominess hanging over the land ; the consequences will be grievous to posterity . " At the north the growth of slavery was arrested by natural causes ; in the region nearest the tropics it throve rankly , and worked ...
... slaves is dark gloominess hanging over the land ; the consequences will be grievous to posterity . " At the north the growth of slavery was arrested by natural causes ; in the region nearest the tropics it throve rankly , and worked ...
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... slaves was " of great inhumanity , " was opposed to the " security and happiness " of their constituents , " would in ... slavery that is entailed on their posterity . " " A serious view of this subject , " said Patrick Henry in 1773 ...
... slaves was " of great inhumanity , " was opposed to the " security and happiness " of their constituents , " would in ... slavery that is entailed on their posterity . " " A serious view of this subject , " said Patrick Henry in 1773 ...
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... slavery , it was through the favorable disposition of Virginia and the South that the clause of Jefferson was restored , and the whole northwestern territory - all the territory that then belonged to the nation was reserved for the ...
... slavery , it was through the favorable disposition of Virginia and the South that the clause of Jefferson was restored , and the whole northwestern territory - all the territory that then belonged to the nation was reserved for the ...
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... slavery so much that he wished " to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves ; " Madison , who held that where slavery ex- ists " the republican theory becomes fallacious ; " Madison , who in the last years of his life would ...
... slavery so much that he wished " to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves ; " Madison , who held that where slavery ex- ists " the republican theory becomes fallacious ; " Madison , who in the last years of his life would ...
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... slavery , which they would not abolish , was not evil , but good . They turned on the friends of colonization , and confidently de- manded : " Why take black men from a civilized and Christian country , where their labor is a source of ...
... slavery , which they would not abolish , was not evil , but good . They turned on the friends of colonization , and confidently de- manded : " Why take black men from a civilized and Christian country , where their labor is a source of ...
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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...