Lincoln: Passages from His Speeches and LettersCentury Company, 1901 - 204 Seiten |
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... authority you rely on upon the declaration itself , where you are sure to find it when wanted . The same of defenses and pleas . In business not likely to be liti- gated , -ordinary collection cases , foreclosures , partitions , and the ...
... authority you rely on upon the declaration itself , where you are sure to find it when wanted . The same of defenses and pleas . In business not likely to be liti- gated , -ordinary collection cases , foreclosures , partitions , and the ...
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... some difference of opinion whether this clause should be enforced by national or by State authority ; but surely that difference is not a very material one . If the slave is to be surrendered , it can be of but little 120.
... some difference of opinion whether this clause should be enforced by national or by State authority ; but surely that difference is not a very material one . If the slave is to be surrendered , it can be of but little 120.
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... authority it is done . And should any one in any case be content that his oath shall go unkept on a merely unsubstantial contro- versy as to how it shall be kept ? Again , in any law upon this subject , ought not all the safe- guards of ...
... authority it is done . And should any one in any case be content that his oath shall go unkept on a merely unsubstantial contro- versy as to how it shall be kept ? Again , in any law upon this subject , ought not all the safe- guards of ...
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... authority . The power con- fided to me will be used to hold , occupy , and possess the property and places belonging to the government , and to col- lect the duties and imposts ; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects ...
... authority . The power con- fided to me will be used to hold , occupy , and possess the property and places belonging to the government , and to col- lect the duties and imposts ; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects ...
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... authority ? The Constitution does not ex- pressly say . May Congress prohibit slavery in the Terri- tories ? The Constitution does not expressly say . Must Con- gress protect slavery in the Territories ? The Constitu- tion does not ...
... authority ? The Constitution does not ex- pressly say . May Congress prohibit slavery in the Terri- tories ? The Constitution does not expressly say . Must Con- gress protect slavery in the Territories ? The Constitu- tion does not ...
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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.