Lincoln's Own StoriesAnthony Gross Harper & brothers, 1912 - 223 pages |
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... night among the grandees ; they called it a fair . All the gals about town was there , and all the handsome widows and married women , finickin ' about trying to look like gals . . . . I looked in at the window , and there this same ...
... night among the grandees ; they called it a fair . All the gals about town was there , and all the handsome widows and married women , finickin ' about trying to look like gals . . . . I looked in at the window , and there this same ...
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... night beside the new - made grave crying , " I cannot bear to have the rain fall upon her . " Speaking of his ancestry , Lincoln once humor- ously remarked , " I don't know who my grand- father was , and I am much more concerned to know ...
... night beside the new - made grave crying , " I cannot bear to have the rain fall upon her . " Speaking of his ancestry , Lincoln once humor- ously remarked , " I don't know who my grand- father was , and I am much more concerned to know ...
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... that he saw the boy strike the fatal blow and that the affair occurred about eleven o'clock at night . Lincoln inquired how he could have seen so clearly at only slightly past its first within an hour after the 24 LINCOLN'S OWN STORIES.
... that he saw the boy strike the fatal blow and that the affair occurred about eleven o'clock at night . Lincoln inquired how he could have seen so clearly at only slightly past its first within an hour after the 24 LINCOLN'S OWN STORIES.
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... night after Lincoln had been away for a week , his Springfield neighbor heard the sound of an ax . Looking out of his window , he saw Lincoln in the moonlight chop- ping wood for his solitary supper . " We had concluded a murder case ...
... night after Lincoln had been away for a week , his Springfield neighbor heard the sound of an ax . Looking out of his window , he saw Lincoln in the moonlight chop- ping wood for his solitary supper . " We had concluded a murder case ...
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... " " Major Whitney tells an interesting incident of the debate : “ Lincoln and I were at the Centralia Agri- cultural Fair the day after the debate at Jones- boro . Night came on and we were tired , 61 THE DOUGLAS DEBATES.
... " " Major Whitney tells an interesting incident of the debate : “ Lincoln and I were at the Centralia Agri- cultural Fair the day after the debate at Jones- boro . Night came on and we were tired , 61 THE DOUGLAS DEBATES.
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Page 116 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save 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. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 220 - 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 117 - 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 by 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.
Page 204 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 165 - 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 124 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 165 - I believe you to be a brave and skilful soldier, which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable if not an indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think that during...
Page 144 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say, That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For, since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born. But now will...
Page 58 - When the white man governs himself, that is selfgovernment; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than selfgovernment — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal," and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
Page 50 - Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal except negroes and foreigners and Catholics.