Lincoln, His Life and Time: Being the Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States, Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages and Proclamations and Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and Death, Količina 1Thompson & Thomas, 1891 - 808 strani This work is a biography of Abraham Lincoln and focuses on his presidency and administration during the Civil War. |
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... friend of his mother's , a travelling preacher , urging him to come and deliver a sermon over her grave . The invitation must have been couched in impressive , if not affecting language ; for , although the letter was not written until ...
... friend of his mother's , a travelling preacher , urging him to come and deliver a sermon over her grave . The invitation must have been couched in impressive , if not affecting language ; for , although the letter was not written until ...
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... friend Lincoln being a " ' grocery - keeper . " I don't know as it would be a great sin , if I had been ; but he is mistaken . Lincoln never kept a grocery anywhere in the world . It is true that Lincoln did work the latter part of one ...
... friend Lincoln being a " ' grocery - keeper . " I don't know as it would be a great sin , if I had been ; but he is mistaken . Lincoln never kept a grocery anywhere in the world . It is true that Lincoln did work the latter part of one ...
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... friendship between us . I wish an answer to this , and you are at liberty to publish both , if you coose . Very respectfully , Col. ROBERT ALLEN . A. LINCOLN . It was in this year ( 1836 ) that Mr. Lincoln first became acquainted with ...
... friendship between us . I wish an answer to this , and you are at liberty to publish both , if you coose . Very respectfully , Col. ROBERT ALLEN . A. LINCOLN . It was in this year ( 1836 ) that Mr. Lincoln first became acquainted with ...
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... friend and former colleague in the legislature , Hon . John T. Stuart , was his partner . One incident of his law practice partakes deeply of the romantic . It is authentic , however , and is well worth narrating . When Mr. Lincoln ...
... friend and former colleague in the legislature , Hon . John T. Stuart , was his partner . One incident of his law practice partakes deeply of the romantic . It is authentic , however , and is well worth narrating . When Mr. Lincoln ...
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... friends by rolling up a major- ity of fifteen hundred and eleven . To add to the signifi- cance of his triumph , he was the only Whig representative from Illinois , which had then seven members in that body . This Congress had before it ...
... friends by rolling up a major- ity of fifteen hundred and eleven . To add to the signifi- cance of his triumph , he was the only Whig representative from Illinois , which had then seven members in that body . This Congress had before it ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN adopted amendment applause army authority battle believe better bill Capital Carolina citizens command Confederacy Congress Constitution Convention Corps Court declared deem dispatch Dred Scott decision duty election emancipation enemy Executive existing favor Federal territories force Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe Franklin Fredericksburg friends fugitive give Halleck Harper's Ferry Heintzelman House hundred Illinois institution insurrection issued Judge Douglas Kentucky labor Lecompton Constitution legislature Major-General Manassas Maryland McClellan McDowell ment military move nation North object officers opinion party passed peace persons political Pope popular sovereignty position Potomac present President principle proclamation purpose question re-enforcements rebel rebellion received reply Republican resolution Richmond secede secession Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent sentiment slavery slaves South South Carolina Southern sovereignty speech Sumter thing thousand tion troops Union United Virginia vote Washington whole wrong
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Stran 263 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free ; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Stran 260 - ... 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...
Stran 262 - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United 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...
Stran 54 - 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.
Stran 170 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Stran 55 - 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...
Stran 101 - All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy.
Stran 262 - ... 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...
Stran 171 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Stran 362 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.