Lincoln: Passages from His Speeches and LettersCentury Company, 1901 - 204 Seiten |
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... constitutional ? ask if somebody does not re- member that a national bank was declared to be constitu- tional ? Such is the truth , whether it be remembered or not . The bank charter ran out , and a recharter was I granted by Congress ...
... constitutional ? ask if somebody does not re- member that a national bank was declared to be constitu- tional ? Such is the truth , whether it be remembered or not . The bank charter ran out , and a recharter was I granted by Congress ...
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... Constitution - that each member had sworn to sup- port that Constitution as he understood it . I will venture here to say that I have heard Judge Douglas say that he ap- proved of General Jackson for that act . What has now be- come of ...
... Constitution - that each member had sworn to sup- port that Constitution as he understood it . I will venture here to say that I have heard Judge Douglas say that he ap- proved of General Jackson for that act . What has now be- come of ...
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... Constitution " ! What is it to be " affirmed " in the Constitution ? Made firm in the Constitution — so made that it cannot be separated from the Constitution without breaking the Constitution- durable as the Constitution , and part 53 XIV.
... Constitution " ! What is it to be " affirmed " in the Constitution ? Made firm in the Constitution — so made that it cannot be separated from the Constitution without breaking the Constitution- durable as the Constitution , and part 53 XIV.
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... Constitution , and part of the Constitution ? Now , remembering the provi- sion of the Constitution which I have read , affirming that that instrument is the supreme law of the land ; that the judges of every State shall be bound by it ...
... Constitution , and part of the Constitution ? Now , remembering the provi- sion of the Constitution which I have read , affirming that that instrument is the supreme law of the land ; that the judges of every State shall be bound by it ...
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... Constitution of the United States . Therefore nothing in the constitution or laws of any State can destroy the right of property in a slave . I believe that no fault can be pointed out in that argument ; assuming the truth of the prem ...
... Constitution of the United States . Therefore nothing in the constitution or laws of any State can destroy the right of property in a slave . I believe that no fault can be pointed out in that argument ; assuming the truth of the prem ...
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Seite 161 - ... proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States, and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Seite 198 - ... Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost,...
Seite 126 - 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.
Seite 134 - At the same time the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people...
Seite xli - Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Seite xl - Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Seite 176 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...
Seite 201 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Seite 114 - It was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence...
Seite 134 - I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the government.