Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Containing His Early History and Political Career; Together with the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations and Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful AdministrationJ.E. Potter, 1865 - 476 páginas |
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... relations to the country at large during his eventful administration . With this view , it has not been deemed necessary to cumber the work with the minute details of his life prior to that time . This period has , therefore , been but ...
... relations to the country at large during his eventful administration . With this view , it has not been deemed necessary to cumber the work with the minute details of his life prior to that time . This period has , therefore , been but ...
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... relation to the Constitution therein treated as being precisely the same ? " While the opinion of the court , by Chief Justice Taney , in the Dred Scott case , and the separate opinions of all the concurring judges , expressly declare ...
... relation to the Constitution therein treated as being precisely the same ? " While the opinion of the court , by Chief Justice Taney , in the Dred Scott case , and the separate opinions of all the concurring judges , expressly declare ...
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... relation to slaves , was : " First . That no slave should be imported into the territory from foreign parts . " Second . That no slave should be carried into it who had been imported into the United States since the first day of May ...
... relation to slaves , was : " First . That no slave should be imported into the territory from foreign parts . " Second . That no slave should be carried into it who had been imported into the United States since the first day of May ...
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... relation to slavery . As those fathers marked it , so let it be again marked , as an evil not to be extended , but to be tolerated and pro- tected only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and ...
... relation to slavery . As those fathers marked it , so let it be again marked , as an evil not to be extended , but to be tolerated and pro- tected only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and ...
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... relation to this affair . When it occurred , some important State elections were near at hand , and you were in evident glee with the belief that , by charging the blame upon us , you could get an advantage of us in those elections ...
... relation to this affair . When it occurred , some important State elections were near at hand , and you were in evident glee with the belief that , by charging the blame upon us , you could get an advantage of us in those elections ...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States ... Frank Crosby Visualização integral - 1866 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States ... Frank Crosby Visualização integral - 1865 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States ... Frank Crosby Visualização integral - 1865 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Administration adopted amendment Annual Message army arrest authority believe called Cass citizens civil claim command Constitution Convention Cooper Institute Court declare Democrats Dred Scott decision duty election emancipation Emancipation Proclamation Executive existing fathers favor Federal Territories force Fort Sumter friends gentlemen Government habeas corpus hereby hope Inaugural insurgent insurrection Internal Improvements issue Judge Douglas Kentucky labor Legislature letter liberty Louisiana loyal McClellan ment military National naval Navy never nomination oath object officers Ohio opinion party peace persons political Popular Sovereignty present President President's principle proclamation purpose question rebel rebellion Reply Republican resolutions Secretary Secretary of War Senator Douglas SEWARD slavery slaves soldiers South Carolina Speech in Congress suppress Tennessee Texas thereof thing tion Union United Vallandigham vote Washington whole WILLIAM H Wilmot Proviso
Passagens conhecidas
Página 191 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 207 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.
Página 191 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or 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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
Página 103 - 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 190 - 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 to destroy slavery.
Página 105 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him, and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Página 105 - 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 282 - Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? " By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never .wisely given to save a limb.
Página 192 - 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 122 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?