Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His TimeAllen Thorndike Rice North American Publishing Company, 1886 - 668 pages |
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Page xvii
... an apt story to the passing visitor . By degrees and by accretion , these utter- ances and stories , or rather these parables , have grown in number with the growth of a great reputa- B tion . Story after story and trait after trait ,
... an apt story to the passing visitor . By degrees and by accretion , these utter- ances and stories , or rather these parables , have grown in number with the growth of a great reputa- B tion . Story after story and trait after trait ,
Page xix
... passed through a more check- ered or more varied career . It fills one with aston- ishment to follow the vocations that successively fell to the lot of this extraordinary man , since , as a boy , in 1826 , he left the school ( to reach ...
... passed through a more check- ered or more varied career . It fills one with aston- ishment to follow the vocations that successively fell to the lot of this extraordinary man , since , as a boy , in 1826 , he left the school ( to reach ...
Page xlvi
... passed , with the aid of their Northern allies , the Fugitive Slave Law , that the conscience of the North made itself felt as a political force ; for , hitherto , it had been satisfied with moral and religious protests , or with silent ...
... passed , with the aid of their Northern allies , the Fugitive Slave Law , that the conscience of the North made itself felt as a political force ; for , hitherto , it had been satisfied with moral and religious protests , or with silent ...
Page lxiv
... passing by that question as not now a practical , or at least an urgent one , you will add that the blockade is now and it will continue to be so maintained , and there- fore we expect it to be respected by Great Britain . You will add ...
... passing by that question as not now a practical , or at least an urgent one , you will add that the blockade is now and it will continue to be so maintained , and there- fore we expect it to be respected by Great Britain . You will add ...
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... passing by that question as not now a practical , or at least an urgent one , you will add that the blockade is now and it will continue to be so maintained , and therefore we expect it to be respected by Great Britain . You will add ...
... passing by that question as not now a practical , or at least an urgent one , you will add that the blockade is now and it will continue to be so maintained , and therefore we expect it to be respected by Great Britain . You will add ...
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Page 63 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 75 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 65 - 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 349 - 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 battle-field 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 74 - 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.
Page 467 - That the maintenance Inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 54 - It follows from these views that no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence within any state or states against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 215 - 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 85 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.
Page 215 - I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...