Abraham Lincoln's SpeechesDodd, Mead, 1895 - 371 páginas |
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... suppose I may enter upon it without claim- ing the honour , or risking the danger , which may await its first explorer . It seems as though we were never to have an end to this baneful and corroding system , acting almost as ...
... suppose I may enter upon it without claim- ing the honour , or risking the danger , which may await its first explorer . It seems as though we were never to have an end to this baneful and corroding system , acting almost as ...
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... suppose we would ; not quite so much , however , as you may think . You know I dislike slavery , and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it . So far there is no cause of difference . But you say that sooner than yield your legal right ...
... suppose we would ; not quite so much , however , as you may think . You know I dislike slavery , and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it . So far there is no cause of difference . But you say that sooner than yield your legal right ...
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... suppose you will celebrate , and will even go so far as to read the Declaration . Suppose , after you read it once in the old - fashioned way , you read it once more with Judge Douglas's version . It will then run thus : ' We hold these ...
... suppose you will celebrate , and will even go so far as to read the Declaration . Suppose , after you read it once in the old - fashioned way , you read it once more with Judge Douglas's version . It will then run thus : ' We hold these ...
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... suppose , if it had any signification at all , it was the right of the people to govern themselves , to be sover- eign in their own affairs , while they were squatted down in a country not their own , while they had squatted on a ...
... suppose , if it had any signification at all , it was the right of the people to govern themselves , to be sover- eign in their own affairs , while they were squatted down in a country not their own , while they had squatted on a ...
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... suppose that Judge Douglas will claim in a little while that he is the inventor of the idea that the people should gov- ern themselves ; that nobody ever thought of such a thing until he brought it forward . We do not remember that in ...
... suppose that Judge Douglas will claim in a little while that he is the inventor of the idea that the people should gov- ern themselves ; that nobody ever thought of such a thing until he brought it forward . We do not remember that in ...
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Página 292 - named.] 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 forever shall be free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will
Página 291 - alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed ; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just, — a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.
Página 292 - Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my intention so to do, publicly proclaimed for one hundred days as aforesaid, order and designate as the States and parts of States in which the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit : [Here
Página 71 - June 17, 1858. IF we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated 1
Página 293 - faithfully for 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 and defend forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. THE
Página 209 - swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality— its universality ; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension — its enlargement. 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
Página 322 - of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 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
Página 295 - 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 thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: [Here follows
Página 302 - Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted him as much as you could, — in which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honourable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that
Página 34 - of civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked, deathless splendour leave it shining on.