The Life and Administration of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, Speeches, Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., with a General View of His Policy as President of the United States ... Also the European Press on His DeathGeorge Washington Bacon S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1865 - 183 psl. |
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... favour than it yet had been . He set to work with his usual industry and vigour , and soon obtained plenty of work . He won quite a reputation in his vocation , but continued in it for little more than a year . At the close of this ...
... favour than it yet had been . He set to work with his usual industry and vigour , and soon obtained plenty of work . He won quite a reputation in his vocation , but continued in it for little more than a year . At the close of this ...
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... favour , a series of resolutions , keenly criticizing the motives which had brought about the war . In later years , it was charged against Mr. Lincoln by those whose political enmity he had incurred , that he lacked a genuine ...
... favour , a series of resolutions , keenly criticizing the motives which had brought about the war . In later years , it was charged against Mr. Lincoln by those whose political enmity he had incurred , that he lacked a genuine ...
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... favour of giving the public lands , not to speculators , but to actual occupants and cultivators , a as low rates as pos- sible ; he was in favour of a protective tariff , and of abolishing the franking privilege . In the Whig National ...
... favour of giving the public lands , not to speculators , but to actual occupants and cultivators , a as low rates as pos- sible ; he was in favour of a protective tariff , and of abolishing the franking privilege . In the Whig National ...
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... favour of Republican principles , to one of which - that he delivered at Cooper Institute , New York , February 27th , 1860 - we have already adverted . These speeches confirmed the impression which had been growing in the public mind ...
... favour of Republican principles , to one of which - that he delivered at Cooper Institute , New York , February 27th , 1860 - we have already adverted . These speeches confirmed the impression which had been growing in the public mind ...
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... favour of Mr. Lincoln which eventually secured his nomination . Great excitement was mani- fested in the Convention upon its next sitting , and the interest with the audience was intense . Upon the first ballot , Mr. Seward had 173 ...
... favour of Mr. Lincoln which eventually secured his nomination . Great excitement was mani- fested in the Convention upon its next sitting , and the interest with the audience was intense . Upon the first ballot , Mr. Seward had 173 ...
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141 psl. - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and 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.
169 psl. - States; 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
142 psl. - 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...
124 psl. - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
171 psl. - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
78 psl. - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity. I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...
145 psl. - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree 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...
151 psl. - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
75 psl. - 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. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.