Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, Volumen64J.M. Dent & Company, 1894 - 237 páginas |
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... claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law , his case is a failure in advance . Discourage litigation . Persuade your neighbours to compromise whenever you can . Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser - in ...
... claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law , his case is a failure in advance . Discourage litigation . Persuade your neighbours to compromise whenever you can . Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser - in ...
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... and even menace the institution of slavery in the States where it exists . Already a few in the South claim the constitutional right to take and hold slaves in the free States , demand the revival of 32 Speeches and Letters of.
... and even menace the institution of slavery in the States where it exists . Already a few in the South claim the constitutional right to take and hold slaves in the free States , demand the revival of 32 Speeches and Letters of.
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... claims of moral right , back upon its existing legal rights and its arguments of necessity . Let us return it to the position our fathers gave it , and there let it rest in peace . Let us re - adopt the Declaration of Independence , and ...
... claims of moral right , back upon its existing legal rights and its arguments of necessity . Let us return it to the position our fathers gave it , and there let it rest in peace . Let us re - adopt the Declaration of Independence , and ...
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... dying ; while senators who claim to be gentlemen and Christians stood by , countenancing the act , and even applauding it afterward in their places in the Senate . Even Douglas , our man , saw it Abraham Lincoln , 1832-1865 45.
... dying ; while senators who claim to be gentlemen and Christians stood by , countenancing the act , and even applauding it afterward in their places in the Senate . Even Douglas , our man , saw it Abraham Lincoln , 1832-1865 45.
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... claim to be to - day . On March 1 , 1784 , Virginia ceded to the confederation all its lands lying northwest of the Ohio River . Jefferson , Chase of Maryland , and Howell of Rhode Island , as a committee on that and territory ...
... claim to be to - day . On March 1 , 1784 , Virginia ceded to the confederation all its lands lying northwest of the Ohio River . Jefferson , Chase of Maryland , and Howell of Rhode Island , as a committee on that and territory ...
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Página 169 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 208 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Página 217 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final restingplace for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Página 179 - I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 198 - I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 207 - ... the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Página 206 - 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...
Página 74 - 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...
Página 86 - 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.
Página 227 - Dear Madam : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of 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.