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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... nature of the American backwoodsman . And this one quality is the simple secret of his success in safely piloting the great nation which had wisely chosen him for her ruler through a crisis whose dangers and difficulties might well have ...
... nature of the American backwoodsman . And this one quality is the simple secret of his success in safely piloting the great nation which had wisely chosen him for her ruler through a crisis whose dangers and difficulties might well have ...
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... natural tact for the rifle was looked upon as a " rising genius " by the neighbour- ing settlers . Skill with the fire - arm was , further , to be valued and desired , inasmuch as , in addition to procuring game for the larder , furs ...
... natural tact for the rifle was looked upon as a " rising genius " by the neighbour- ing settlers . Skill with the fire - arm was , further , to be valued and desired , inasmuch as , in addition to procuring game for the larder , furs ...
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... Nature had bestowed upon him a frame of much muscular power , a readiness of wit , and a shrewdness of judgment , all of which qualities could be used to advantage in the flat - boat voyage . Accompanied by one associate ( the son of ...
... Nature had bestowed upon him a frame of much muscular power , a readiness of wit , and a shrewdness of judgment , all of which qualities could be used to advantage in the flat - boat voyage . Accompanied by one associate ( the son of ...
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... nature was aroused . What were peace , and fame , and fortune , when the country was assailed by treachery and cunning device ? The warrior put aside all his own interests , girded on his armour , and went forth , like Peter the Hermit ...
... nature was aroused . What were peace , and fame , and fortune , when the country was assailed by treachery and cunning device ? The warrior put aside all his own interests , girded on his armour , and went forth , like Peter the Hermit ...
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... nature lifted him above a resort to any such weapons of political warfare , and it was the commonly expressed regret of fiercer natures that he treated his opponent too courteously and urbanely . Vulgar personalities and vituperation ...
... nature lifted him above a resort to any such weapons of political warfare , and it was the commonly expressed regret of fiercer natures that he treated his opponent too courteously and urbanely . Vulgar personalities and vituperation ...
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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.