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 psl. Includes added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by F.B. Carpenter. |
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The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ... Together with His State ... Henry Jarvis Raymond Visos knygos peržiūra - 1865 |
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN action Administration adopted aforesaid amendment Andrew Johnson April army arrest authority believe bill called cause citizens City Point command Congress Constitution Convention Corps declared Department dispatch Douglas duty election emancipation enemy EXECUTIVE MANSION favor Federal force Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe friends give Government Governor Grant Greeley habeas corpus Halleck honor HORACE GREELEY House hundred issued John Wilkes Booth July Kentucky labor letter liberty loyal Major-General March McClellan ment military Missouri navy North Carolina o'clock officers party passed peace persons political position Potomac present President Lincoln President's proclamation purpose question re-enforcements rebel rebellion received reply Republican resolution Richmond River Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent sentiment Seward slavery slaves soldiers South speech territory thing thousand tion troops Union United Virginia vote WAR DEPARTMENT Washington whole York
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258 psl. - States ; and the fact that. any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
260 psl. - ... 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.
162 psl. - 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...
50 psl. - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; 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 the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
258 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...
258 psl. - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
358 psl. - 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.
251 psl. - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
229 psl. - Resolved that the United States ought to co-operate with any state which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such state pecuniary aid, to be used by such state in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences public and private, produced by such change of system.
241 psl. - ... and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them and coming under the control of the Government of the United States...