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... once . It was little more than two years after the flat - boat voyage , and Abraham was just arrived of age , that Thomas Lincoln , in the month of March , 1830 , accompanied by his family , and the families of the two daughters and ...
... once . It was little more than two years after the flat - boat voyage , and Abraham was just arrived of age , that Thomas Lincoln , in the month of March , 1830 , accompanied by his family , and the families of the two daughters and ...
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... once during the campaign , and was present at the Massachusetts State Convention , by invitation of parties endeavouring to effect harmony of action between the strict anti - slavery and the Whig or " Conserva- tive " factions . He did ...
... once during the campaign , and was present at the Massachusetts State Convention , by invitation of parties endeavouring to effect harmony of action between the strict anti - slavery and the Whig or " Conserva- tive " factions . He did ...
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... once descending to rude per- sonality and coarse denunciation . It is stated on the authority of a gentleman , who followed Mr. Lincoln throughout the whole of this campaign , that in spite of all the temptations to an opposite course ...
... once descending to rude per- sonality and coarse denunciation . It is stated on the authority of a gentleman , who followed Mr. Lincoln throughout the whole of this campaign , that in spite of all the temptations to an opposite course ...
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... once fascinated every little hearer , and hushed the room into silence . His language was strikingly beautiful , and his tones musical with intensest feeling . The little faces around him would droop into sad conviction as he uttered ...
... once fascinated every little hearer , and hushed the room into silence . His language was strikingly beautiful , and his tones musical with intensest feeling . The little faces around him would droop into sad conviction as he uttered ...
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... once proceed to the nomination of candidates , but an adjournment was had until morning . Had this motion to proceed at once to business been carried , it is more than probable that Mr. Seward would have been the nominee , as his , at ...
... once proceed to the nomination of candidates , but an adjournment was had until morning . Had this motion to proceed at once to business been carried , it is more than probable that Mr. Seward would have been the nominee , as his , at ...
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Page 114 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. 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.
Page 113 - 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.
Page 73 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity. I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...
Page 112 - ... 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...
Page 70 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 111 - 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.
Page 111 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 113 - 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...
Page 107 - By these recent successes the reinauguration of the national authority — reconstruction — which has had a large share of thought from the first, is pressed much more closely upon our attention. It is fraught with great difficulty.