Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. Showing the Inner Growth, Special Training, and Peculiar Fitness of the Man for His Work |
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... ready to move into before there were new - comers ready to occupy the hovel the Lincoln family moved out of . Indiana had now become a State , with a population of about 65,000 , and a great tide of immigration was beginning to pour in ...
... ready to move into before there were new - comers ready to occupy the hovel the Lincoln family moved out of . Indiana had now become a State , with a population of about 65,000 , and a great tide of immigration was beginning to pour in ...
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... ready to ' tend baby , go for a bucket of water , tell a story , or recite any required amount of poetry . His memory held everything tenaciously and in condition for instant use . It was stored not only with the miscellaneous contents ...
... ready to ' tend baby , go for a bucket of water , tell a story , or recite any required amount of poetry . His memory held everything tenaciously and in condition for instant use . It was stored not only with the miscellaneous contents ...
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... ; better than some , it might be , but very much below any young man whose father could give him a good farm and some hogs and a little ready money . CHAPTER IX . THE FLATBOAT . A Trading Voyage - BOY - OF - ALL - WORK . 59.
... ; better than some , it might be , but very much below any young man whose father could give him a good farm and some hogs and a little ready money . CHAPTER IX . THE FLATBOAT . A Trading Voyage - BOY - OF - ALL - WORK . 59.
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... ready for shipment when the flatboat was launched . The State of Illinois at that time raised but little of any other crop than Indian corn , and sent this to market mainly in the shape of pork . The cargo therefore consisted of the ...
... ready for shipment when the flatboat was launched . The State of Illinois at that time raised but little of any other crop than Indian corn , and sent this to market mainly in the shape of pork . The cargo therefore consisted of the ...
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... there was another man who imagined a large share at least of all that praise his own peculiar due . He too had enthusiastic admirers ready to do his boasting for him . The " Clary's Grove Boys " were a set of A STEP UPWARD . 75.
... there was another man who imagined a large share at least of all that praise his own peculiar due . He too had enthusiastic admirers ready to do his boasting for him . The " Clary's Grove Boys " were a set of A STEP UPWARD . 75.
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Page 465 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 368 - 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, 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...
Page 336 - ... 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...
Page 335 - 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...
Page 450 - 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. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by...
Page 171 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that 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 all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 493 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 369 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 224 - Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshals by law...
Page 368 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the fortyeight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...