The Voice of LincolnC. Scribner's Sons, 1918 - 363 pages |
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... battle , but by stealth , when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest . • " My father ( Thomas Lincoln ) at the ... Black Hawk war ; and I was elected captain of a volunteer company , a success that gave me more pleasure than any I ...
... battle , but by stealth , when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest . • " My father ( Thomas Lincoln ) at the ... Black Hawk war ; and I was elected captain of a volunteer company , a success that gave me more pleasure than any I ...
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... Black Hawk War came on , and a company was organized among the pioneers in and about New Salem . With many others Lincoln volunteered . Soon a captain was to be chosen . There was one avowed candidate , a man by the name of Kirkpatrick ...
... Black Hawk War came on , and a company was organized among the pioneers in and about New Salem . With many others Lincoln volunteered . Soon a captain was to be chosen . There was one avowed candidate , a man by the name of Kirkpatrick ...
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... Black Hawk War : " The friends of General Cass , when that gentleman was a candidate for the presidency , endeavored to en- dow him with a military reputation . Mr. Lincoln , at that time a representative in Congress , delivered a ...
... Black Hawk War : " The friends of General Cass , when that gentleman was a candidate for the presidency , endeavored to en- dow him with a military reputation . Mr. Lincoln , at that time a representative in Congress , delivered a ...
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... Black Hawk War . " Offices held : postmaster at a very small office ; four times a member of the Illinois Legislature , and elected to the Lower House of the next Congress . " He took his seat in the National Congress the first Monday ...
... Black Hawk War . " Offices held : postmaster at a very small office ; four times a member of the Illinois Legislature , and elected to the Lower House of the next Congress . " He took his seat in the National Congress the first Monday ...
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... Black Hawk War in 1832 over an older and more ex- perienced man , Kilpatrick . The people did it . They believed in him and wanted to honor him . We remember how , though a Whig , he was appointed postmaster at New Salem in 1833 by ...
... Black Hawk War in 1832 over an older and more ex- perienced man , Kilpatrick . The people did it . They believed in him and wanted to honor him . We remember how , though a Whig , he was appointed postmaster at New Salem in 1833 by ...
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Page 165 - All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effect by negotiation.
Page 166 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 234 - 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...
Page 142 - I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
Page 200 - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 334 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 195 - 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 333 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Page 317 - 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.
Page 233 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." 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...