The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages, Volume 8Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton F. Finley & Company, 1895 - Biography |
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... slavery , he , by instinctive devotion to duty , exemplified the maxim of Emerson , " Hitch your wagon to a star , " and by so doing reached an eternity of fame . Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County , Kentucky , February 12 , 1809 ...
... slavery , he , by instinctive devotion to duty , exemplified the maxim of Emerson , " Hitch your wagon to a star , " and by so doing reached an eternity of fame . Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County , Kentucky , February 12 , 1809 ...
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... slavery in the District of Columbia . He had emphatically declared many times before the public that slavery was “ unjust to the slave and impolitic to the nation . " He proposed a system of gradual emancipation with compen- sation to ...
... slavery in the District of Columbia . He had emphatically declared many times before the public that slavery was “ unjust to the slave and impolitic to the nation . " He proposed a system of gradual emancipation with compen- sation to ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... total , 4,680,203 . A President was at last elected on the distinct ground of opposition to the extension of slavery , and the executive power of the country fell from the hands of the 12 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS .
... total , 4,680,203 . A President was at last elected on the distinct ground of opposition to the extension of slavery , and the executive power of the country fell from the hands of the 12 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS .
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... slavery leaders . The disunionists at once proceeded to put in practice what they had threatened in the event of Lincoln's election . A convention in South Carolina passed an ordinance of secession in December , and the six Gulf States ...
... slavery leaders . The disunionists at once proceeded to put in practice what they had threatened in the event of Lincoln's election . A convention in South Carolina passed an ordinance of secession in December , and the six Gulf States ...
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Page 11 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 37 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Page 36 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 37 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Page 38 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 17 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; 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 45 - O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up— for you the flag is flung— for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 337 - Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame. Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers. The streets were kept clear by cavalry. The peers, robed in gold and ermine, were marshalled by the heralds under Garter King-at-Arms.
Page 338 - There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.
Page 102 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...