The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and DeathDerby and Miller, 1865 - 808 pages |
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... THROUGH NEW YORK 13. REMAINS LYING IN STATE AT CHICAGO 14. THE LAST RITES AT SPRINGFIELD 15. FUNERAL ARCH OVER HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD 64 702 64 708 64 710 64 712 " 724 PREFACE . DURING the Presidential canvass of 1864 , the.
... THROUGH NEW YORK 13. REMAINS LYING IN STATE AT CHICAGO 14. THE LAST RITES AT SPRINGFIELD 15. FUNERAL ARCH OVER HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD 64 702 64 708 64 710 64 712 " 724 PREFACE . DURING the Presidential canvass of 1864 , the.
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... remains had been deposited in their last resting - place , Parson Elkins , the preacher to whom it was extended , responded to the request , and three months subsequent- ly , just a year after her decease , preached 20 THE LIFE , PUBLIC ...
... remains had been deposited in their last resting - place , Parson Elkins , the preacher to whom it was extended , responded to the request , and three months subsequent- ly , just a year after her decease , preached 20 THE LIFE , PUBLIC ...
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... remain with them until he should find some- thing " to turn his hand to . " They also hoped much from his influence over their son , an over - indulged and somewhat unruly boy . The sequel , which is thus graph- ically told by the ...
... remain with them until he should find some- thing " to turn his hand to . " They also hoped much from his influence over their son , an over - indulged and somewhat unruly boy . The sequel , which is thus graph- ically told by the ...
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... remain such at the will of their respective owners , their heirs , or legal representatives : Provided , that such owner , or his legal representatives , may at any time receive from the Treasury of the United States the full value of ...
... remain such at the will of their respective owners , their heirs , or legal representatives : Provided , that such owner , or his legal representatives , may at any time receive from the Treasury of the United States the full value of ...
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... remain as our fathers made it ? . It is precisely all I ask of him in relation to the institution of slavery , that it shall be placed upon the basis that our fathers placed it upon . Mr. Brooks , of South Carolina , once said , and ...
... remain as our fathers made it ? . It is precisely all I ask of him in relation to the institution of slavery , that it shall be placed upon the basis that our fathers placed it upon . Mr. Brooks , of South Carolina , once said , and ...
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Page 258 - ... 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 and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons...
Page 118 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 724 - 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...
Page 643 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 260 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and 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...
Page 253 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
Page 165 - 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 642 - On the occasion corresponding to this four" years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it.
Page 350 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before?
Page 54 - 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...