The Life and Administration of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, Speeches, Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., with a General View of His Policy as President of the United States ... Also the European Press on His DeathGeorge Washington Bacon S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1865 - Всего страниц: 183 |
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... friends of the oppressed , will bewail his death - so sudden , so cruel , and untimely . But there is compensation in all misfortunes . He had lived his higher existence , he had fulfilled his mission , and the vile assassin who ...
... friends of the oppressed , will bewail his death - so sudden , so cruel , and untimely . But there is compensation in all misfortunes . He had lived his higher existence , he had fulfilled his mission , and the vile assassin who ...
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... friends , and won the respect of all with whom he had business dealings , while , socially , he was even more beloved by his acquaintances , and came to be familiarly known as " Honest Abe . " Upon the breaking out of the Black - Hawk ...
... friends , and won the respect of all with whom he had business dealings , while , socially , he was even more beloved by his acquaintances , and came to be familiarly known as " Honest Abe . " Upon the breaking out of the Black - Hawk ...
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... seek a different field of exertion . Nothing daunted by his ill - fortune , he next endea- voured to gain an insight into the profession of law . To this end he borrowed some books from a friend 14 THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... seek a different field of exertion . Nothing daunted by his ill - fortune , he next endea- voured to gain an insight into the profession of law . To this end he borrowed some books from a friend 14 THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... friend , and gradually made himself acquainted with the rudiments of the profession in which he afterwards achieved a marked success . He , meantime , pursued his studies diligently . He made himself somewhat proficient in grammar ...
... friend , and gradually made himself acquainted with the rudiments of the profession in which he afterwards achieved a marked success . He , meantime , pursued his studies diligently . He made himself somewhat proficient in grammar ...
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... friends — a feature of his oratory which became one of his peculiar characteristics . We say oratory , yet it would hardly be termed such in the Ciceronian sense of the word . The very familiarity of his discourse , the home- liness of ...
... friends — a feature of his oratory which became one of his peculiar characteristics . We say oratory , yet it would hardly be termed such in the Ciceronian sense of the word . The very familiarity of his discourse , the home- liness of ...
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Стр. 141 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. 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 save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Стр. 169 - States; 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
Стр. 142 - 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...
Стр. 124 - 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...
Стр. 171 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Стр. 78 - 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...
Стр. 145 - ... 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...
Стр. 151 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Стр. 75 - 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.