Selected Writings of Abraham LincolnGregg publishing Company, 1920 - 345 páginas |
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... person . He had the logic of Calhoun , the diction of Edward Everett , and the tre- mendous emphasis of Wendell Phillips . Above all he had simplicity , the straightforwardness , the tremendous moral conviction of Abraham Lincoln . As ...
... person . He had the logic of Calhoun , the diction of Edward Everett , and the tre- mendous emphasis of Wendell Phillips . Above all he had simplicity , the straightforwardness , the tremendous moral conviction of Abraham Lincoln . As ...
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... persons and property of individuals are trodden down and disregarded . . . . Thus , then , by the op- eration of this mobocratic spirit which all must admit is now abroad in the land , the strongest bulwark of any government , and ...
... persons and property of individuals are trodden down and disregarded . . . . Thus , then , by the op- eration of this mobocratic spirit which all must admit is now abroad in the land , the strongest bulwark of any government , and ...
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... person but a thing . " And if the safeguards to liberty are broken down , as is now attempted , when they have made things of all the free negroes , how long , think you , before they will begin to make things of poor white men ? Be not ...
... person but a thing . " And if the safeguards to liberty are broken down , as is now attempted , when they have made things of all the free negroes , how long , think you , before they will begin to make things of poor white men ? Be not ...
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... person " ; and wherever his master's legal right in relation to him is alluded to , it is spoken of as " service or labor which may be due , " as a debt payable in service or labor . Also , it would be open to show , by con ...
... person " ; and wherever his master's legal right in relation to him is alluded to , it is spoken of as " service or labor which may be due , " as a debt payable in service or labor . Also , it would be open to show , by con ...
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... persons to assist in its execution , but punishing all who resist it , and with the usual safeguards to liberty , securing free men against being surrendered as slaves . That all State laws , if there be such , really or appar- ently in ...
... persons to assist in its execution , but punishing all who resist it , and with the usual safeguards to liberty , securing free men against being surrendered as slaves . That all State laws , if there be such , really or appar- ently in ...
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Página 246 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of 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...
Página 78 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 147 - Resolved, 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 225 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could do 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 154 - 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.
Página 150 - 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 80 - 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 237 - 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 256 - My Dear General: I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. 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...
Página 300 - Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the Nation.