Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the United States; and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy of the United StatesT.B. Peterson & brothers, 1864 - 171 Seiten |
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... speak- ing was pleasing to the masses of the people , and his earnest appeals were not only well received , but were productive of much benefit to his favorite candidate . Accustomed from early childhood to the habits and pecu ...
... speak- ing was pleasing to the masses of the people , and his earnest appeals were not only well received , but were productive of much benefit to his favorite candidate . Accustomed from early childhood to the habits and pecu ...
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... speaking in behalf of his favorite candidate and the choice of his party . HE IS NOMINATED FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR , BUT WITHDRAWS . In 1849 he was a candidate before the Legislature of Illinois for United States Senator , but his ...
... speaking in behalf of his favorite candidate and the choice of his party . HE IS NOMINATED FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR , BUT WITHDRAWS . In 1849 he was a candidate before the Legislature of Illinois for United States Senator , but his ...
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... speak , and to give those readers of this work who have not had the opportunity to see Mr. Lincoln , an idea of his personal appearance : One writer gives the following pen - portrait : " Mr. Lincoln stands six feet and four inches high ...
... speak , and to give those readers of this work who have not had the opportunity to see Mr. Lincoln , an idea of his personal appearance : One writer gives the following pen - portrait : " Mr. Lincoln stands six feet and four inches high ...
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... speaking has neither firmness in his countenance nor fire in his eye . " Mr. Lincoln has a rich , silvery voice , enunciates with great distinctness , and has a fine command of language . He com- menced by a review of the points Mr ...
... speaking has neither firmness in his countenance nor fire in his eye . " Mr. Lincoln has a rich , silvery voice , enunciates with great distinctness , and has a fine command of language . He com- menced by a review of the points Mr ...
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... the Federal government to control as to slavery in the Federal territories . Thus the twenty - one acted ; and , as actions speak louder than words , so actions under such responsibility 52 LIFE AND SERVICES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... the Federal government to control as to slavery in the Federal territories . Thus the twenty - one acted ; and , as actions speak louder than words , so actions under such responsibility 52 LIFE AND SERVICES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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Seite 95 - Whereas, The laws of the United States have been for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Seite 89 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Seite 92 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Seite 92 - 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 132 - ... 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 93 - By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Seite 106 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Seite 132 - 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 91 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Seite 81 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence, which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.