Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the PeopleMacmillan, 1899 - 433 páginas This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. |
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... sent by Lincoln to the late Mr. Jesse W. Fell and used in the political campaign of 1860 • facing 170 Facsimile of the letter dated May 21 , 1861 , from Secretary Seward to Charles Francis Adams , United States Min- ister to England ...
... sent by Lincoln to the late Mr. Jesse W. Fell and used in the political campaign of 1860 • facing 170 Facsimile of the letter dated May 21 , 1861 , from Secretary Seward to Charles Francis Adams , United States Min- ister to England ...
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... sent a friend to the Salem postmaster to ask if he would take the place . Lincoln , who was discovered splitting rails in the woods , replied that he would see Calhoun himself . He went to Springfield , told the Demo- cratic surveyor ...
... sent a friend to the Salem postmaster to ask if he would take the place . Lincoln , who was discovered splitting rails in the woods , replied that he would see Calhoun himself . He went to Springfield , told the Demo- cratic surveyor ...
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... sent him an appointment as Indian agent . Lincoln , with his debts on his back , kept indus- triously ahead . His work left him time to read Paine , Volney , and Voltaire , according to Mr. Herndon , who makes him out quite an argumen ...
... sent him an appointment as Indian agent . Lincoln , with his debts on his back , kept indus- triously ahead . His work left him time to read Paine , Volney , and Voltaire , according to Mr. Herndon , who makes him out quite an argumen ...
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... sent it to the claimants . A hawk - billed Yankee is here besetting me at every turn I take , saying that Robert Kinzie never received the eighty dollars to which he was entitled . Can you tell anything about the matter ? Again , old Mr ...
... sent it to the claimants . A hawk - billed Yankee is here besetting me at every turn I take , saying that Robert Kinzie never received the eighty dollars to which he was entitled . Can you tell anything about the matter ? Again , old Mr ...
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... sent by Lincoln at this period to the Sangamon Journal under the title " Suicide , " and later cut out of the files . According to Herndon also , Miss Todd released her fiancé from his engagement by letter a few days after the incidents ...
... sent by Lincoln at this period to the Sangamon Journal under the title " Suicide , " and later cut out of the files . According to Herndon also , Miss Todd released her fiancé from his engagement by letter a few days after the incidents ...
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Página 273 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
Página 189 - 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.
Página 409 - O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Página 404 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offences 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 offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge...
Página 316 - ... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Página 273 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; 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.
Página 372 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected.
Página 135 - 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. 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.
Página 327 - 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...
Página 131 - I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife.