Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln: State papers, 1861-1865Current literature publishing Company, 1907 |
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... purpose , by sagacious pre- sentiment of popular tendencies and instinctive sympathy with the national character . Mr. Lin- coln's task was one of peculiar and exceptional difficulty . Long habit had accustomed the Amer- ican people to ...
... purpose , by sagacious pre- sentiment of popular tendencies and instinctive sympathy with the national character . Mr. Lin- coln's task was one of peculiar and exceptional difficulty . Long habit had accustomed the Amer- ican people to ...
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... purpose , exceptionally unscrupulous in appealing to those baser motives that turn a meet- ing of citizens into a mob of barbarians , he should yet have won his case before a jury of the people . Mr. Lincoln was as far as possible from ...
... purpose , exceptionally unscrupulous in appealing to those baser motives that turn a meet- ing of citizens into a mob of barbarians , he should yet have won his case before a jury of the people . Mr. Lincoln was as far as possible from ...
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... purpose and an en- ergy of reason that knows not what rhetoric means . There has been nothing of Cleon , still less of Strepsiades * striving to underbid him in * Athenian demagogues , satirized by the comic dramatist Aris- tophanes ...
... purpose and an en- ergy of reason that knows not what rhetoric means . There has been nothing of Cleon , still less of Strepsiades * striving to underbid him in * Athenian demagogues , satirized by the comic dramatist Aris- tophanes ...
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... purpose it was fraught , And , helpless in the fiery passion caught , Shakes all the pillared state with shock of men : Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed Confronts us BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL xliii The First American Extract from Ode ...
... purpose it was fraught , And , helpless in the fiery passion caught , Shakes all the pillared state with shock of men : Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed Confronts us BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL xliii The First American Extract from Ode ...
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... purpose * From " History of the Administration of President Lincoln , " by Henry J. Raymond , 1864. Mr. Raymond was editor of the New York Times , and the Chairman of the Executive National Committee of the Union ( Republican ) party at ...
... purpose * From " History of the Administration of President Lincoln , " by Henry J. Raymond , 1864. Mr. Raymond was editor of the New York Times , and the Chairman of the Executive National Committee of the Union ( Republican ) party at ...
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Page 146 - ... 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.
Page 173 - 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...
Page 220 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the union of the States thereunder ; and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress, or by decision of the Supreme Court...
Page xlvi - And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate.
Page 144 - 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 146 - 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 144 - 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 69 - 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 81 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 232 - Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery...