Lincoln ...: A Brief Biographical Sketch of Lincoln, Fitting Appreciations of His Character and a Compilation of Selections from His State Papers, Addresses and Letters ...Edward Harold Mott Martin B. Brown, 1909 - 48 psl. |
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Abraham Lincoln Almighty believe Birth and Rise blood brave career cause Choate Congress Constitution contemplation created equal CRISIS Declaration of Independence dedicated destroy devotion dissolve the Union eloquent Executive Executive Government faith fame February 11 feel forever Francis D friends gave GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN hand Hardin County heart help to save HONOR GEORGE BRINTON hope human Illinois Inaugural Address inhabit land laws Let him answer letter liberty LINCOLN CENTENARY COMMITTEE Lincoln's First Inaugural lived Lord one thousand loved Missouri Compromise mother nation never nobly November 20 offense partisan frenzy party PATRIOTIC WARNINGS perpetual political political corruption President principles proclamation purpose race rebellion Rise of Lincoln save the Union SCURRIL JESTER'S sentiment slaves soil Springfield stand struggle sympathy Tandy Company task Thomas Lincoln thousand eight hundred toil triumph United utter WARNINGS AND APPEALS Washington White House wilderness York Tribune young
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35 psl. - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
37 psl. - West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
36 psl. - ... the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
39 psl. - Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed 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.
34 psl. - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend it.
24 psl. - 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...
33 psl. - 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.
35 psl. - 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.
35 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.
36 psl. - Now.; therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...