The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and DeathDerby and Miller, 1865 - 808 pages Includes added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by F.B. Carpenter. |
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... existing here . They did not make it so , but they left it so , because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time . When Judge Douglas undertakes to say that , as a matter of choice , the fathers of the Government made this ...
... existing here . They did not make it so , but they left it so , because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time . When Judge Douglas undertakes to say that , as a matter of choice , the fathers of the Government made this ...
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... existing political parties , and who were alarmed at the probable results of a presidential election which promised to be substantially sectional in its character .. They put forth , therefore , no opinions upon the leading points in ...
... existing political parties , and who were alarmed at the probable results of a presidential election which promised to be substantially sectional in its character .. They put forth , therefore , no opinions upon the leading points in ...
Page 120
... existing articles relating to the representation of slaves and the surrender of fugitives . Besides these proposed amendments of the Constitution , Mr. Crittenden's resolutions embodied certain declara- tions in affirmance of the ...
... existing articles relating to the representation of slaves and the surrender of fugitives . Besides these proposed amendments of the Constitution , Mr. Crittenden's resolutions embodied certain declara- tions in affirmance of the ...
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... existing in fifteen of the United States by the usages and laws of those States ; and we recognize no authority , legally or otherwise , outside of a State where it so exists , to interfere with slaves or slavery in such States , in ...
... existing in fifteen of the United States by the usages and laws of those States ; and we recognize no authority , legally or otherwise , outside of a State where it so exists , to interfere with slaves or slavery in such States , in ...
Page 140
... existing in our national politics , and it is as well that I should also allude to it here . I think that there is no occasion for any excitement . The crisis , as it is called , is altogether an artificial crisis . In all parts of the ...
... existing in our national politics , and it is as well that I should also allude to it here . I think that there is no occasion for any excitement . The crisis , as it is called , is altogether an artificial crisis . In all parts of the ...
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Page 163 - 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, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes...
Page 261 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the parishes of St.
Page 164 - I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these states is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 200 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not waged on their part in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired ;...
Page 670 - Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed very fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress...
Page 360 - 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. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Page 352 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Page 730 - In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 730 - tis the draught of a breath — From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : — Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Page 260 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...