Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time, Band 2Jennings & Pye, 1901 |
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... strength , discipline , and training , that such an unfit , weak , and shallow - minded man as Franklin Pierce defeated Scott in 1852 , who was a citizen , soldier , and patriot , without a blot or scratch on his noble es- cutcheon ...
... strength , discipline , and training , that such an unfit , weak , and shallow - minded man as Franklin Pierce defeated Scott in 1852 , who was a citizen , soldier , and patriot , without a blot or scratch on his noble es- cutcheon ...
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... strength and resources for three dreadful weeks against the settlers . August 25th , Woodson issued another proclamation , declaring the Territory in a state of rebellion . About the same time Atchison entered the Territory with a newly ...
... strength and resources for three dreadful weeks against the settlers . August 25th , Woodson issued another proclamation , declaring the Territory in a state of rebellion . About the same time Atchison entered the Territory with a newly ...
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... strength with Atchison in the beginning , as he would have to do it in the end , and the longer delayed , the harder to accomplish . He insisted that his order to disarm and disband should be obeyed , and that Atchison and his ...
... strength with Atchison in the beginning , as he would have to do it in the end , and the longer delayed , the harder to accomplish . He insisted that his order to disarm and disband should be obeyed , and that Atchison and his ...
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... strength for the emergency . Geary liberated Robinson and all the free State pris- oners . There was rejoicing everywhere , and Geary's grit and unflinching courage , that saved us from civil war , and unwittingly made Buchanan's ...
... strength for the emergency . Geary liberated Robinson and all the free State pris- oners . There was rejoicing everywhere , and Geary's grit and unflinching courage , that saved us from civil war , and unwittingly made Buchanan's ...
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... strength in a few months , but gave new energy to men in all parties in the free States , and aroused them as they had not been , to the fast approach- ing conflict . Not every man by any means who was ready to resist slavery at some ...
... strength in a few months , but gave new energy to men in all parties in the free States , and aroused them as they had not been , to the fast approach- ing conflict . Not every man by any means who was ready to resist slavery at some ...
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Seite 214 - That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself....
Seite 233 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?
Seite 519 - Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Seite 645 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Seite 199 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to and conducted by its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through,...
Seite 278 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union ;' and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!
Seite 515 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. "I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Seite 508 - I can say in return, sir, that all the political sentiments I entertain have been drawn, so far as I have been able to draw them, from the sentiments which originated in and were given to the world from this hall. I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Seite 632 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Seite 278 - It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great Confederacy shall be at peace, and in harmony one with another. Let us Republicans do our part to have it so. Even though much provoked, let us do nothing through passion and ill temper. Even though the Southern people will not so much as listen to us, let us calmly consider their demands, and yield to them if, in our deliberate view of our duty, we possibly can.