Abraham Lincoln's Pen and Voice: Being a Complete Compilation of His Letters, Civil, Politival, and Military, Also His Public Addresses, Messages to Congress, Inaugurals and Others, as Well as Proclamations Upon Various Public Concerns ... |
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... desire to call a convention to remove any grievances complained of , or to give new guarantees for the permanence of vested rights , it is not mine to oppose . THE PRESIDENT ELECT TO THURLOW WEED . Springfield , Ill . , February 4 ...
... desire to call a convention to remove any grievances complained of , or to give new guarantees for the permanence of vested rights , it is not mine to oppose . THE PRESIDENT ELECT TO THURLOW WEED . Springfield , Ill . , February 4 ...
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... desire they should be constitutionally performed . I , as already intimated , am but an accidental instru- ment , temporary , and to serve but for a limited time , and I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you , and ...
... desire they should be constitutionally performed . I , as already intimated , am but an accidental instru- ment , temporary , and to serve but for a limited time , and I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you , and ...
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... desire to perpetuate our institutions , and to hand them down in their perfection to succeeding generations . I have neither the voice nor the strength to address you at any greater length . I beg you will accept my most grateful thanks ...
... desire to perpetuate our institutions , and to hand them down in their perfection to succeeding generations . I have neither the voice nor the strength to address you at any greater length . I beg you will accept my most grateful thanks ...
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... I was called upon to make an argument , I could do it without much deliberation . not what you desire to have done here But that is tonight . I have been occupying the position since election , of silence PEN AND VOICE . 37.
... I was called upon to make an argument , I could do it without much deliberation . not what you desire to have done here But that is tonight . I have been occupying the position since election , of silence PEN AND VOICE . 37.
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... desire to repeat , in order to preclude any possible misconstruction , that I do most sincerely hope that we shall have no use for them . [ Applause . ] That it will never become their duty to shed blood , and most especially never to ...
... desire to repeat , in order to preclude any possible misconstruction , that I do most sincerely hope that we shall have no use for them . [ Applause . ] That it will never become their duty to shed blood , and most especially never to ...
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Page 390 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 191 - 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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 47 - Resolved, that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 407 - 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.
Page 235 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 327 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
Page 328 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
Page 408 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Page 239 - 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...
Page 58 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or. on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.