Lincoln, His Life and Time: Being the Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States, Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages and Proclamations and Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and Death, Band 1Thompson & Thomas, 1891 - 808 Seiten This work is a biography of Abraham Lincoln and focuses on his presidency and administration during the Civil War. |
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... directing the to introduce a bill abolishing the District . On January 16 ( 1849 ) , Mr. Lincoln moved the following amendment , instructing the Committee to intro- duce a bill not for the abolition of the slave - trade , but of slavery ...
... directing the to introduce a bill abolishing the District . On January 16 ( 1849 ) , Mr. Lincoln moved the following amendment , instructing the Committee to intro- duce a bill not for the abolition of the slave - trade , but of slavery ...
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... directed the commander of the United States forces in Florida to " permit no person to exercise any office or authority upon the islands of Key West , Tortugas , and Santa Rosa , which may be in- consistent with the laws and ...
... directed the commander of the United States forces in Florida to " permit no person to exercise any office or authority upon the islands of Key West , Tortugas , and Santa Rosa , which may be in- consistent with the laws and ...
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... directed Mr. Adams to make a decided and energetic pro- test . On the fifteenth of June the British and French Ministers at Washington requested an interview with the Secretary of State for the purpose of reading to him cer- tain ...
... directed Mr. Adams to make a decided and energetic pro- test . On the fifteenth of June the British and French Ministers at Washington requested an interview with the Secretary of State for the purpose of reading to him cer- tain ...
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... directed to be sent for the landing of the troops from the steamship Brooklyn into Fort Pickens . This order could not go by land , but must take the longer and slower route by sea . The first return news from the order was received ...
... directed to be sent for the landing of the troops from the steamship Brooklyn into Fort Pickens . This order could not go by land , but must take the longer and slower route by sea . The first return news from the order was received ...
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... directed him , on the one hand , to " permit nc interference by the persons under his command wit the relations of persons held to service under the laws of any State , " and on the other , to " refrain from surren- dering to alleged ...
... directed him , on the one hand , to " permit nc interference by the persons under his command wit the relations of persons held to service under the laws of any State , " and on the other , to " refrain from surren- dering to alleged ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN adopted amendment applause army authority battle believe better bill Capital Carolina citizens command Confederacy Congress Constitution Convention Corps Court declared deem dispatch Dred Scott decision duty election emancipation enemy Executive existing favor Federal territories force Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe Franklin Fredericksburg friends fugitive give Halleck Harper's Ferry Heintzelman House hundred Illinois institution insurrection issued Judge Douglas Kentucky labor Lecompton Constitution legislature Major-General Manassas Maryland McClellan McDowell ment military move nation North object officers opinion party passed peace persons political Pope popular sovereignty position Potomac present President principle proclamation purpose question re-enforcements rebel rebellion received reply Republican resolution Richmond secede secession Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent sentiment slavery slaves South South Carolina Southern sovereignty speech Sumter thing thousand tion troops Union United Virginia vote Washington whole wrong
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Seite 263 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free ; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Seite 260 - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Seite 262 - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by 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 54 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Seite 170 - 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 55 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Seite 101 - 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.
Seite 262 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Seite 171 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Seite 362 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.