Lincoln Sesquicentennial, 1809-1959: Handbook of Information, Volumen2The Commission, 1958 - 40 páginas |
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... Formed law partnership with John T. Stuart Delivered Lyceum address at Springfield Reelected to Legislature for third term Selected as presidential elector by the Whig State Con- vention at Springfield Admitted to practice in the ...
... Formed law partnership with John T. Stuart Delivered Lyceum address at Springfield Reelected to Legislature for third term Selected as presidential elector by the Whig State Con- vention at Springfield Admitted to practice in the ...
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... law , retired from the post- mastership at New Salem , moved to Springfield , became a law partner of John T. Stuart ... partnership formed with Stephen T. Logan in 1841 was dissolved . His private life became more closely bound to the ...
... law , retired from the post- mastership at New Salem , moved to Springfield , became a law partner of John T. Stuart ... partnership formed with Stephen T. Logan in 1841 was dissolved . His private life became more closely bound to the ...
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Abraham Lincoln amended 5 U. S. C. annual message appointed April army AUGUST birth of Abraham Black Hawk Black Hawk War Bloomington Bobbs-Merrill born Chicago Civil commemorate Convention Cooper Institute debate DECEMBER Delivered Douglas Edward Baker Lincoln election Emancipation Proclamation father February 12 fiftieth anniversary Formed law partnership Fremont Gettysburg Address gram H. J. Res Harcourt Hardin County Herndon hundred and fiftieth Illinois Central Illinois Legislature Issued proclamation July June Kentucky Labor Legisla liberty Lincoln programs Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission lost speech March Mary Todd Missouri Compromise month N. Y. Feb political program subject Reelected to Legislature Republican Robert Todd Lincoln Rutgers University Press Salem SANDBURG Sangamon County save the Union Senate Sept SEPTEMBER slavery slaves Spoke at Springfield spot resolutions Springfield story suggests a review Thomas Tad United vols volunteers Washington Whig William H William Wallace Lincoln Wrote York
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Página 34 - 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 31 - 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 33 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Página 28 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 29 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Página 31 - 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.
Página 31 - 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 31 - Our popular Government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled — the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains — its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.
Página 28 - The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise.
Página 30 - Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere.