Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln: State papers, 1861-1865Current literature publishing Company, 1907 |
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... Recommending Com- pensated Emancipation . March 6 , 1862 Message to Congress on Passage of Act to Abolish Slavery in District of Columbia . April 16 , 1862 Proclamation Revoking General Hunter's Order of Military Emancipation . May 19 ...
... Recommending Com- pensated Emancipation . March 6 , 1862 Message to Congress on Passage of Act to Abolish Slavery in District of Columbia . April 16 , 1862 Proclamation Revoking General Hunter's Order of Military Emancipation . May 19 ...
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... Recommending Thanksgiving for Victories . April 10 , 1862 154 155 156 158 Proclamation of a National Fast - Day ... Recommendation of Thanksgiving for Union Success in East Tennessee . December 7 , 1863 Recommendation of Thanksgiving ...
... Recommending Thanksgiving for Victories . April 10 , 1862 154 155 156 158 Proclamation of a National Fast - Day ... Recommendation of Thanksgiving for Union Success in East Tennessee . December 7 , 1863 Recommendation of Thanksgiving ...
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... recommended that you give the legal means for making this contest a short and de- cisive one that you place at the control of the government for the work at least four hundred thousand men and $ 400,000,000 . That number of men is about ...
... recommended that you give the legal means for making this contest a short and de- cisive one that you place at the control of the government for the work at least four hundred thousand men and $ 400,000,000 . That number of men is about ...
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... recommend that adequate and ample measures be adopted for maintaining the public defenses on every side . While under this general recommendation pro- vision for defending our sea - coast line readily occurs to the mind , I also in the ...
... recommend that adequate and ample measures be adopted for maintaining the public defenses on every side . While under this general recommendation pro- vision for defending our sea - coast line readily occurs to the mind , I also in the ...
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... recommend as a military measure that Congress provide for the construction of such road as speedily as possible . Kentucky , no doubt , will coöperate , and , through her legislature , make the most judicious selection of a line . The ...
... recommend as a military measure that Congress provide for the construction of such road as speedily as possible . Kentucky , no doubt , will coöperate , and , through her legislature , make the most judicious selection of a line . The ...
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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...