Sketch of the Life of Abraham Lincoln: Compiled in Most Part from the History of Abraham Lincoln, and the Overthrow of Slavery ...J.B. Bachelder, 1869 - 75 páginas |
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59 BEEKMAN STREET ABRAHAM LINCOLN American army ARTIST'S PROOF assassin BACHELDER Battle of Gettysburg Battle-field of Gettysburg Bible Black Hawk War Cabinet canvass Capitol character colored Confederate Congress Corps crowd death debates Douglas elected eloquence Emancipation Emancipation Proclamation eminent Executive expression faith father fidelity field Ford's Theater friends genial Gettysburg Battle-field Grant grief HALL hand Hardin County heart hope HOURS OF LINCOLN Illinois impressed Inaugural INDIA PROOF ISOMETRICAL DRAWING John Wilkes Booth Kentucky Last Hours liberty live Major Rathbone Major-General Missouri Compromise never night O. O. HOWARD officers overthrow of slavery painting party passed peace person picture Potomac prairie President Lincoln printed Proclamation Proof Portrait published rebel received Regiment represented Republic scene Senator Seward Shakespeare sketch slaves soldiers speech Springfield STEEL ENGRAVING struggle terrible theater tion triumph truth Union Union Army victory visited votes Washington White House
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Página 31 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 64 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Página 27 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Página 38 - The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great North-west for it. Nor yet wholly to them. Three hundred miles up they met New England, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey, hewing their way right and left. The sunny South, too, in more colors than one, also lent a hand.
Página 75 - Yes ! He had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil and confute my pen, To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
Página 73 - I know there is a God, and that he hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that His hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me, and I think He has, I believe I am ready. I am nothing, but Truth is everything. I know I am right, because I know that liberty is right, for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God.
Página 73 - Doesn't it appear strange that men can ignore the moral aspect of this contest? A revelation could not make it plainer to me that slavery or the Government must be destroyed. The future would be something awful, as I look at it, but for this rock on which I stand...
Página 44 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in ; to bind up the nation's wounds ; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans ; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Página 23 - With me, the race of ambition has been a failure — a flat failure; with him, it has been one of splendid success.
Página 35 - When, in March, and May, and July, 1862, I made earnest and successive appeals to the border States to favor compensated emancipation, I believed the indispensable necessity for military emancipation and arming the blacks would come, unless averted by that measure. They declined the proposition, and I was, in my best judgment, driven to the alternative of either surrendering the Union, and with it, the Constitution, or of laying strong hand upon the colored element. I chose the latter.