Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled NorthYale University Press, 1921 - 272 páginas |
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Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled North Nathaniel Wright Stephenson Visualização integral - 1918 |
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE UNION A CHRONICLE OF THE EMBATTLED NORTH NATHANIEL W. STEPHENSON Visualização integral - 1921 |
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Abraham Lincoln action American appeared April army biographer blockade British Buchanan Cabinet called Cameron Charles Francis Adams Charleston Chase coln Confederacy Confederate Congress constitution convention course crisis Davis defeat demand democracy dispatch doubt Douglas Douglas's election enemies England famous fate federacy Federal force foreign Frémont gave Government Greeley groups hand Henry Winter Davis Homestead Act issue Kansas Kansas-Nebraska Act labor leaders Lincoln manufacturers ment military million mind Missouri motives munitions Napoleon Nathaniel W nation Navy North Northern Ohio opposed peace political evasion politicians popular ports position Powhatan President question Republicans resignation Rhett secession Secretary Secretary of War sectional seemed Senate Seward ships slave slavery soldiers South Carolina Southern Southern party speech Stanton Sumter territory thing thought tion took Toombs trade Treasury turning-point Union Party United Vallandigham vote War Democrat Washington West Whigs wrote Yancey York
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Página 99 - 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.
Página 35 - It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a Territory under the Constitution, the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
Página 75 - I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Página 111 - ... that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked administration of a contemptible government, too weak to arrest and punish him if he shall desert. I think that in such a case to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy.
Página 75 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 121 - I hail this interchange of sentiment, therefore, as an augury that whatever else may happen, whatever misfortune may befall your country or my own, the peace and friendship which now exists between the two nations will be, as it shall be my desire to make them, perpetual.
Página 35 - Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a territory under the constitution, the people have the lawful means to introduce it, or exclude it, as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day, or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations. Those police regulations can only be established by the local legislatures, and if the people are opposed to slavery they will elect representatives to that body who will...
Página 121 - ... freedom. I do not doubt that the sentiments you have expressed will be sustained by your great nation ; and, on the other hand, I have no hesitation in assuring you that they will excite admiration, esteem, and the most reciprocal feelings of friendship among the American people.
Página 121 - This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches upon any. It acts not the Pharisee. The change it contemplates would come gently as the dews of Heaven, not rending or wrecking anything. Will you not embrace it? So much good has not been done, by one effort, in all past time, as in the Providence of God it is now your high privilege to do. May the vast future not have to lament that you have neglected it.
Página 112 - Constitution contemplates the question as likely to occur for decision, but it does not expressly declare who is to decide it. By necessary implication, when rebellion or invasion comes, the decision is to be made from time to time; and I think the man whom for the time the people have, under the Constitution, made the Commander-in-Chief of their army and navy is the man who holds the power and bears the responsibility of making it. If he uses the power justly the same people will probably justify...