The Voice of LincolnC. Scribner's Sons, 1918 - 363 pages |
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... questions , as they have not been answered heretofore , is the primary and para- mount purpose of this volume . To this end I have selected and assembled from the authenticated records as compiled by others the signif- icant and ...
... questions , as they have not been answered heretofore , is the primary and para- mount purpose of this volume . To this end I have selected and assembled from the authenticated records as compiled by others the signif- icant and ...
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... questions they spoke on were , The Bee and the Ant , Water and Fire ; another was , Which had the most right to complain , the Negro or the Indian . " " One William Wood , a boyhood friend of Abe's , says that ' Abe was in the habit of ...
... questions they spoke on were , The Bee and the Ant , Water and Fire ; another was , Which had the most right to complain , the Negro or the Indian . " " One William Wood , a boyhood friend of Abe's , says that ' Abe was in the habit of ...
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... questions with reason and argu- ment so pithy and forcible that all were amazed . ” While here he frequently walked to Booneville court - house to observe and study the trial of cases . It was at New Salem within a week from his arrival ...
... questions with reason and argu- ment so pithy and forcible that all were amazed . ” While here he frequently walked to Booneville court - house to observe and study the trial of cases . It was at New Salem within a week from his arrival ...
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... question . He composed differences among friends and equals with good - natured raillery , but he was as rough as need be when his wrath was roused by meanness and cruelty . " Holland also speaks of this general confidence that the ...
... question . He composed differences among friends and equals with good - natured raillery , but he was as rough as need be when his wrath was roused by meanness and cruelty . " Holland also speaks of this general confidence that the ...
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... question : " If elected they ( the people ) will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compen- sate . But , if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background , I have ...
... question : " If elected they ( the people ) will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compen- sate . But , if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background , I have ...
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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...