The History of Abraham Lincoln, and the Overthrow of SlaveryClarke & Company, 1866 - 720 strani |
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... called the United States , is well adapted by physical conformation , to be the home of one national family , and not of many . Remove slavery , and the people would gravitate into a homogeneous nationality . This antagonism , between ...
... called the United States , is well adapted by physical conformation , to be the home of one national family , and not of many . Remove slavery , and the people would gravitate into a homogeneous nationality . This antagonism , between ...
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... called " Jay's treaty , " with England in 1794 , he did not know that cotton was an article of export , so small was then the quantity of this staple product . The slaveholders , relatively few in number , now united and became a ...
... called " Jay's treaty , " with England in 1794 , he did not know that cotton was an article of export , so small was then the quantity of this staple product . The slaveholders , relatively few in number , now united and became a ...
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... called the great citadel of its power , the United States Senate . The free States saw these vast accessions of political power in the hands of slaveholders , with uneasiness , and murmurs loud and deep began to be heard , but the ...
... called the great citadel of its power , the United States Senate . The free States saw these vast accessions of political power in the hands of slaveholders , with uneasiness , and murmurs loud and deep began to be heard , but the ...
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... called at Philadelphia , in December , 1833 , a National Anti - Slavery Convention . It was attended by sixty delegates from ten States . This convention organized the American Anti - Slavery Society . This was the acorn germ of that ...
... called at Philadelphia , in December , 1833 , a National Anti - Slavery Convention . It was attended by sixty delegates from ten States . This convention organized the American Anti - Slavery Society . This was the acorn germ of that ...
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... called the Compromise Measures , and is declared inoperative . " This proposition startled the Senate and the people . It broke down the barriers which , by a sacred compact , had been erected against the extension of slavery , and the ...
... called the Compromise Measures , and is declared inoperative . " This proposition startled the Senate and the people . It broke down the barriers which , by a sacred compact , had been erected against the extension of slavery , and the ...
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Stran 175 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Stran 622 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Stran 580 - To plague the inventor; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Stran 299 - 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, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Stran 622 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Stran 309 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Stran 176 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Stran 502 - ... immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that, at the earliest practicable moment, peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States.
Stran 621 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. 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.
Stran 114 - 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 it forward till it shall become alike lawful in...