Abraham Lincoln, the Great Captain: Personal Reminiscences by a Veteran of the Civil War, a Lecture Delivered at Oxford, May the 7th, 1928Clarendon Press, 1928 - 32 páginas |
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1928 by GEORGE Abraham Lincoln action in regard Adjutant anti-slavery leaders army born in Kentucky Bryant Captain PERSONAL REMINISCENCES chief leader citizens coln coloured folks commit the city Confederacy constituted Cooper Union courier D.Litt darkies delivered at Oxford discouragements facts of history Father Abraham Federal Government Federal Territories fighting line front gaunt figure GEORGE HAVEN PUTNAM Golden Circle honour the memory impressed inspiration Johnston Lincoln stood looking Lord loyal speech loyal support maintained Massa Linkum Massachusetts Mayor meeting Missouri nomination North opinion pamphlet patience political leader port President prisoner proper division purpose regiment Republic Republican Party restriction of slavery Robert Lincoln Schultz secure Seward Slave South Southern leaders speaker Sumter surrender talk Thinking it right thinking it wrong thought tion to-day took the ground Tri-Insula troops Union Square Vallandigham Veteran voters Washington West White House Wood took world's heroes York to Exeter Yorkers young lawyer
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Página 9 - All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full recognition as being right; but thinking it wrong, as we do, can we yield to them? Can we cast our votes with their view, and against our own? In view of our moral, social, and political...
Página 28 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Página 9 - 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 27 - OH, slow to smite and swift to spare, Gentle and merciful and just ! Who, in the fear of God, didst bear The sword of power, a nation's trust ! In sorrow by thy bier we stand, Amid the awe that hushes all, And speak the anguish of a land That shook with horror at thy fall. Thy task is done ; the bond are free : We bear thee to an honored grave. Whose proudest monument shall be The broken fetters of the slave. Pure was thy life ; its bloody close Hath placed thee with the sons of light, Among the...
Página 8 - ... proper division of local from Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. The remaining sixteen of the
Página 8 - ... so acting upon it as to make them guilty of gross political impropriety and wilful perjury, if, in their understanding, any proper division between local and federal authority, or anything in the Constitution they had made themselves, and sworn to support, forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in the federal territories. Thus the twenty-one acted; and, as actions speak louder than words, so actions, under such responsibility, speak still louder.
Página 9 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation...
Página 9 - ... speak as they spoke, and act as they acted upon it. This is all Republicans ask, all Republicans desire, in 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 protected only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity.
Página 12 - You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy this Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 24 - Well," the old man replied with a half-sob, "we colored folks — we get news, or we get half news, sooner than you-uns. I don't know jes* what it is, but somethin' has gone wrong with Massa Linkum.