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Page xxv
... rebellion formed at Montgom- ery a provisional government , and pursued their relentless purpose with such success that the Lieutenant General feared the city of Washing- ton might find itself " included in a foreign country , " and ...
... rebellion formed at Montgom- ery a provisional government , and pursued their relentless purpose with such success that the Lieutenant General feared the city of Washing- ton might find itself " included in a foreign country , " and ...
Page xxvi
... rebellion founded on negro slavery gain a recognition of its principle throughout the civi- lized world . To the disaffected Lincoln had said , " You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors . " To fire the passions ...
... rebellion founded on negro slavery gain a recognition of its principle throughout the civi- lized world . To the disaffected Lincoln had said , " You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors . " To fire the passions ...
Page xxxi
... rebellion was directed against human nature itself for the perpetual enslavement of a race . And the effect of this recognition was , that acts in themselves piratical found shelter in British courts of law . The resources of British ...
... rebellion was directed against human nature itself for the perpetual enslavement of a race . And the effect of this recognition was , that acts in themselves piratical found shelter in British courts of law . The resources of British ...
Page xxxiii
... rebellion as an independent power , and that England held him back by her reluctance , or France by her traditions of freedom , or he him- self by his own better judgment and clear per- ception of events . But the republic of Mexico ...
... rebellion as an independent power , and that England held him back by her reluctance , or France by her traditions of freedom , or he him- self by his own better judgment and clear per- ception of events . But the republic of Mexico ...
Page xxxiv
... rebellion , and was establishing the best government ever known in that region , and giv- ing promise to the nation of order , peace , and prosperity , word was brought us , in the moment of our deepest affliction , that the French Em ...
... rebellion , and was establishing the best government ever known in that region , and giv- ing promise to the nation of order , peace , and prosperity , word was brought us , in the moment of our deepest affliction , that the French Em ...
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Page 156 - Portsmouth and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued 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 shall be free and that the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...
Page 155 - 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, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly...
Page 37 - States, and the people thereof, in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed. That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all...
Page 39 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : SEC.
Page 16 - 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.
Page 162 - 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...
Page 116 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution...
Page 39 - States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the Government of the United States...
Page x - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 163 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: "Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St.