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 páginas |
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... hundred and seventy - seven votes out of two hundred and eighty - four cast ; and this , be it remembered , was the first and last time that he was ever beaten before the people . The contest ended , Mr. Lincoln settled down to business ...
... hundred and seventy - seven votes out of two hundred and eighty - four cast ; and this , be it remembered , was the first and last time that he was ever beaten before the people . The contest ended , Mr. Lincoln settled down to business ...
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... hundred and fourteen votes , he astonished himself and his friends by rolling up a major- ity of fifteen hundred and eleven . To add to the signifi- cance of his triumph , he was the only Whig representative from Illinois , which had ...
... hundred and fourteen votes , he astonished himself and his friends by rolling up a major- ity of fifteen hundred and eleven . To add to the signifi- cance of his triumph , he was the only Whig representative from Illinois , which had ...
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... hundred different men , and they scattered to a hundred different and distant places ; and they stand musing as to what invention , in all the dominions of mind aud matter , can be produced to make the impossibility of his escape more ...
... hundred different men , and they scattered to a hundred different and distant places ; and they stand musing as to what invention , in all the dominions of mind aud matter , can be produced to make the impossibility of his escape more ...
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... hundred thousand votes , and so , perhaps , was not overwhelmingly reliable and satisfactory . The outgoing president , in his last annual message , as impressively as possible echoed back upon the people the weight and authority of the ...
... hundred thousand votes , and so , perhaps , was not overwhelmingly reliable and satisfactory . The outgoing president , in his last annual message , as impressively as possible echoed back upon the people the weight and authority of the ...
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... hundred times , at least as good as a hundred times ; and when it is said that I am in favor of interfering with slavery where it exists , I know it is unwarranted by any thing I have ever intended , and , as I believe , by any thing I ...
... hundred times , at least as good as a hundred times ; and when it is said that I am in favor of interfering with slavery where it exists , I know it is unwarranted by any thing I have ever intended , and , as I believe , by any thing I ...
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The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State ... Henry Jarvis Raymond Visualização integral - 1865 |
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN action Administration adopted aforesaid amendment Andrew Johnson April arms army arrest attack authority believe bill called cause citizens City Point command Congress Constitution Convention Corps declared Department dispatch Douglas duty election emancipation Emancipation Proclamation enemy EXECUTIVE MANSION favor Federal force Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe friends give Government Governor Grant habeas corpus Halleck hand honor HORACE GREELEY House hundred issued John Wilkes Booth July labor letter liberty loyal Major-General March McClellan ment military Missouri navy North Carolina o'clock officers party passed peace persons political position Potomac present President Lincoln President's proclamation purpose question re-enforcements rebel rebellion received reply Republican resolution Richmond River Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent sentiment Seward slavery slaves soldiers South speech Territories thing thousand tion troops Union United Virginia vote Washington whole York
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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...