Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ...H.W. Bell, 1903 - 399 Seiten Advertising matter: p. 391-399. |
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... officers and privates , regulars and volunteers , doing all that men could do , and hundreds of things which it had ever be- fore been thought men could not do — after all this , this same President gives a long message , without ...
... officers and privates , regulars and volunteers , doing all that men could do , and hundreds of things which it had ever be- fore been thought men could not do — after all this , this same President gives a long message , without ...
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... officers and soldiers of the army who achieved that independence . I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together . It was not the mere matter of separation of the ...
... officers and soldiers of the army who achieved that independence . I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together . It was not the mere matter of separation of the ...
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... had pampered them , not one common soldier or common sailor is known to have deserted his flag . Great honor is due to those officers who remained true , despite the example of their treacherous associates ; but the 203 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... had pampered them , not one common soldier or common sailor is known to have deserted his flag . Great honor is due to those officers who remained true , despite the example of their treacherous associates ; but the 203 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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... officers except the legislative , boldly advocated , with labored arguments to prove that large control of the people in government is the source of all political evil . Monarchy itself is sometimes hinted at as a possible refuge from ...
... officers except the legislative , boldly advocated , with labored arguments to prove that large control of the people in government is the source of all political evil . Monarchy itself is sometimes hinted at as a possible refuge from ...
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... officers with you , but I am con- stantly told that you have no consultation or communication with them ; that you consult and communicate with nobody but General Fitz - John Porter and perhaps General Frank- lin . I do not say these ...
... officers with you , but I am con- stantly told that you have no consultation or communication with them ; that you consult and communicate with nobody but General Fitz - John Porter and perhaps General Frank- lin . I do not say these ...
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Seite 183 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government...
Seite 121 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people...
Seite 288 - Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.
Seite 273 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to 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 save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Seite 254 - A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. "One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
Seite 114 - 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 134 - 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. It is the same spirit that says, ' You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Seite 105 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Seite 187 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Seite 298 - There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age, I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three, but that was all.