The Life and Administration of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, Speeches, Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., with a General View of His Policy as President of the United States ... Also the European Press on His DeathGeorge Washington Bacon S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1865 - 183 Seiten |
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... continued in it for little more than a year . At the close of this period , in August of 1834 - two years after our subject was first a candidate for the Legislature , and when he had just entered his twenty- sixth year he was again ...
... continued in it for little more than a year . At the close of this period , in August of 1834 - two years after our subject was first a candidate for the Legislature , and when he had just entered his twenty- sixth year he was again ...
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... continued prospering , devoting the succeeding six years to the study as well as the practice of the law . Each new case seemed to add to his growing reputation for ability as a court and jury lawyer , and emi- nence as counsel ...
... continued prospering , devoting the succeeding six years to the study as well as the practice of the law . Each new case seemed to add to his growing reputation for ability as a court and jury lawyer , and emi- nence as counsel ...
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... continued to clamour for peace . In short , after vacil- lating between the two wings of his party , the war and peace democrats , the success of the Federal arms deter- mined his leaning to the former , and he thus forfeited all claim ...
... continued to clamour for peace . In short , after vacil- lating between the two wings of his party , the war and peace democrats , the success of the Federal arms deter- mined his leaning to the former , and he thus forfeited all claim ...
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... continued to hold Rich- mond with a tenacity that seemed to augur a tedious prolongation of the contest . But while the destinies of the great Republic still tremble in equipoise at the great centre of hostilities , a diversion was ...
... continued to hold Rich- mond with a tenacity that seemed to augur a tedious prolongation of the contest . But while the destinies of the great Republic still tremble in equipoise at the great centre of hostilities , a diversion was ...
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... continued irregular warfare . A conciliatory policy on the part of the North would do much to prevent or cut short a denouement of this kind by ranging the mass of the Southrons them- selves in hostility to so desperate and suicidal a ...
... continued irregular warfare . A conciliatory policy on the part of the North would do much to prevent or cut short a denouement of this kind by ranging the mass of the Southrons them- selves in hostility to so desperate and suicidal a ...
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The Life and Administration of Abraham Lincoln (Classic Reprint) G. W. Bacon Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abraham Lincoln administration adopted Alabama amendment American Andrew Johnson appointed arms army ARTICLE assassin authority ballot believe bill Black-Hawk Breckinridge candidate cause citizens civil Congress Constitution contest Convention crime decision declare Democratic District Douglas Dred Scott decision duty election Electors emancipation Emancipation Proclamation enemies Executive Executive Government faith favour federacy Federal flat-boat force foreign Fort Sumter freedom friends Government Grant heart honour hope House of Representatives Illinois inauguration issue Kentucky labour Lecompton Constitution legislation Legislature Louisiana loyal M'Clellan majority measures ment military murder Nebraska negroes never nomination North number of votes oath party passed peace persons political present President Lincoln principles proclamation question rebellion Republican respective save the Union seceded secession SECTION Senate Seward slavery South Carolina Southern speech Spencer county struggle Supreme Court Territories thereof Thomas Lincoln tion United Vice-President Virginia Washington whole number
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Seite 141 - 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 169 - States; 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
Seite 142 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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 124 - 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 171 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Seite 78 - 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 145 - ... 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 151 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Seite 75 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.