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id: 14274
title: Lincoln''s Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections)
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  The facts of Lincoln''s early life are best stated in his own words, shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new,--North slave for a long time in each, was passing through the United States Constitution which declares that "the citizens of each State shall be Territorial Legislature to exclude slavery from any United States power in the people of a State to exclude slavery from their limits, restrained by the United States Constitution is left an open question, of a new State into the Union with such a constitution as the people of the Union with such a constitution as the people of that State may see the Constitution of the United States, the people of the Southern Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, very far to make slavery national throughout the United States.


id: 22082
title: The Emancipation Proclamation
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  was issued by the President of the United States, containing, slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall government of the United States, including the military and naval by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States." rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States the following, to wit: order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will


id: 22681
title: The Life and Public Service of General Zachary Taylor: An Address
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  heard Lincoln''s address on the death of President Zachary Taylor. President Taylor died at Washington on July 9, 1850. Lincoln arrived in Chicago two days before the President''s death. Taylor, deceased, late President of the United States of the address on the life and public services of Gen. Taylor, is When General Taylor died, it was eminently fitting that Lincoln, as the arrival in Chicago, two days before the death of President Taylor, Lincoln would have done for Worth what Taylor did. the deceased President, General Zachary Taylor. General Zachary Taylor, the eleventh elected President of the United This was General Taylor''s great It did not happen to General Taylor, once in his life, to fight a battle General Taylor''s battles were not distinguished for brilliant military that battle, even General Taylor, himself. that battle, even General Taylor, himself. certain--that General Taylor had never thought of the Presidency in


id: 14721
title: Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  Slave Law, and even menace the institution of slavery in the States right to take and hold slaves in the free States, demand the revival of Union as a slave State, I shall oppose it. slavery in Illinois; and, to-day, a large party in the free State of Compromise which secured to slavery a great State as well as a political into the Union as a slave State, and that slavery was weeded out by the shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North to-day--that the people of a Territory have no right to exclude slavery people to make a State constitution,--all that portion of time popular only to the Constitution of the United States." Thereupon Judge Douglas slavery is to be made national, let us consider what Judge Douglas is the rights of all the States and Territories and people of the nation;


id: 9
title: Abraham Lincoln''s First Inaugural Address
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  be enforced by national or by State authority; but surely that if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association be lawfully possible, the Union is LESS perfect than before the Constitution, I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. legal right may exist in the government to enforce the exercise of All profess to be content in the Union if all Constitutional rights majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written Constitutional right, of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, The fugitive-slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for the implied Constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express


id: 8
title: Abraham Lincoln''s Second Inaugural Address
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  Lincoln''s Second Inaugural Address On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war-than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather And the war came. that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on


id: 4
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA


id: 5024
title: State of the Union Addresses
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  if it be one, will increase as new States come into the Union. that Congress provide for accepting such persons from such States, the free colored people already in the United States could not, so far considerable migration to both these countries from the United States. correspondence through the Department of State with foreign governments State of Minnesota has suffered great injury from this Indian war. 1900, shall receive compensation from the United States as follows, to the rights of foreigners in this country and of United States citizens United States they still claim the interposition of this Government as existing treaty between the United States and a foreign country, the The naval force of the United States consists at this time of 588 spirit on the part of the United States, as well as of the nations the United States no banks of issue not authorized by Congress and no


id: 2654
title: The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  States; and it shall be the duty of the President to canvass said votes constitutes the Territories of New Mexico and Utah and the present State was a slave State, and consequently the farther west the slavery men could fact that by that very law Missouri came in as a slave State, north of the Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new Territories, is not constitutional right to take and to hold slaves in the free States, demand General Government, five or six of the original slave States had adopted question of whether a new country shall be slave or free is a matter of as Kansas shall be free, you would vote for no man for Congress who would say to put the free-State men in the wrong for not voting at the election of and he knows that the free-State men place their refusal to vote on the


id: 2653
title: The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall the two foremost figures in its history men like Washington and Lincoln. It is good for every man in any way concerned in public life to feel Lincoln the man, patient, wise, set in a high resolve, is worth far more slavery question to the people of the free States, and thrust itself figure; and Douglas was a Senator from Illinois, Lincoln''s State. peculiar power as a public man, and singularly fitted him, as we shall Constitution of the United States." This he called "the great principle his friends in Illinois took the matter seriously in hand, and Lincoln, what had now become the powerful State of Illinois, and upon the people been elected by the slave power, and who thought the seceding States The object of the meeting was stated by Mr. Lincoln of Springfield, who


id: 2655
title: The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 3: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  slavery from any United States Territory, they all omit to declare whether mooted question of slavery, before they form a State constitution? Judge Douglas made two points upon my recent speech at Springfield. hearing, and to which I ask the attention of all, Judge Douglas thinks he How is it, then, that Judge Douglas infers, because I hope to see slavery the right of the people, when they come to make a State Constitution, Judge Douglas is for Supreme Court decisions when he likes and against One more point on this Springfield speech which Judge Douglas says he has old Whig party, I have the means of knowing about that: Judge Douglas fairly with Judge Douglas, and with the people of the State, in this To this Judge Douglas answered that they can lawfully exclude slavery from Suppose you believe, as Judge Douglas does, that the Constitution


id: 2657
title: The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  principle would be, that a general government shall do all those things wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits, a right to carry his slaves into the United States Territories. At the time the Constitution of the United States was adopted, it was becomes alike lawful in all the States, old or new, free as well as slave. Constitution of the United States expected that slavery should be into the Union as a slave State, and that the people, upon the "great rights of all the States and Territories and people of the nation, to the the union of these States and the liberties of this people shall be lost, States, authorizing him at the same time, if he shall find it necessary, laws, Constitution, and government of the United States which had broken Major-General Fremont, of the United States Army, the present commander


id: 2658
title: The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks The enemy is moving north in sufficient force to drive General Banks been received and sent to General McDowell, and he directed to act in view WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON CITY, May 30, 1862.9.30 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL McDOWELL, Rectortown, Va.: Department, heretofore under command of General Fremont, shall constitute whole land forces of the United States, as general-in-chief, and that he order made, General Halleck went to the Secretary of War with it, stating Ordered, by the President of the United States, That the Attorney-General that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States and dismissed from the service of the United States as a major-general and I think I so stated to the Secretary of War and General Halleck.


id: 2659
title: The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  State in this Union a republican form of government and shall protect each military order from the General-in-Chief or Secretary of War. A. constituting you Lieutenant-General of the Army of the United States. lieutenant-General in the United States Army, approved February 29, 1864, military service (Army, Navy, and Marine Corps) of the United States. the United States and to the rebels now at war against the Government and people of the United States as a day of national humiliation and prayer. Lieutenant-General, Commanding Armies United States." Secretary of State, when the following telegram of General Grant to the OFFICE UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, WAR DEPARTMENT. OFFICE UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, WAR DEPARTMENT. OFFICE UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, WAR DEPARTMENT. OFFICE UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, WAR DEPARTMENT. OFFICE UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, WAR DEPARTMENT. continue until war vessels of the United States shall have been placed


id: 2656
title: The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 4: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  days, and when I heard of what Judge Trumbull had said of Douglas, and I propose to examine the points in Judge Douglas''s speech in which he Judge Douglas states, that many Territorial bills have passed without show of proof that Judge Douglas did, as Trumbull says, enter into a plot want to ask this question: Why did not Judge Douglas say that these words Another one of the points that Judge Douglas makes upon Trumbull, and at In the clause of Judge Douglas''s speech upon this subject he uses this Judge Trumbull says Douglas made that speech, and it is recorded. speech that Judge Douglas made he attacked me in regard to a matter does not, and I have the right to repeat the question,--Why Judge Douglas Now, in regard to what Judge Douglas said (in the beginning of his speech) Judge Douglas declares that if any community wants slavery they have a


id: 8110
title: Lincoln Letters
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  LINCOLN LETTERS The letters herein by Lincoln are so thoroughly characteristic of admonitions in the letter to his brother, Johnston, were written on the same sheet with the letter to his father. King, requesting a pardon for John B. Your request for eighty dollars, I do not think it best to comply live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it to work for the best money wages, or in discharge of any debt you land, and if you don''t pay the money back, you will deliver advice, you will find it worth more than eight times eighty dollars to vigilant and self reliant; and, pleased with this, I wish not to [Illustration: 06 REQUEST FOR A PARDON] [Illustration: 06 REQUEST FOR A PARDON] [Transcriber''s Note: The letter from Austin A. Lincoln''s note approving the pardon is contained in As these letters were not transcribed in the


id: 7547
title: Quotes and Images from the Writings of Abraham Lincoln
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Forbids the marrying of white people with negroes Free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia Fugitive Slave law Get along without making either slaves or Government cannot endure permanently half slave I like the system which lets a man quit Middle ground between the right and the wrong?? Not appearing on the appointed wedding day Public opinion in this country is everything Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law Right to eat the bread he earns Seward''s Bid for Power Suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong Two Sons Who Want to Work Who has the right needs not to fear Would Make War Rather than Let the Nation Survive Would Accept War Rather than Let it Perish You work and toil and earn bread, and I''ll eat it You were right and I was wrong Complete Letters and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln:


id: 39204
title: The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator
author: Lincoln, Abraham
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  struggling laboring man, I am for that thing. _Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed._ It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong. The doctrine of self-government is right--absolutely and eternally When the time comes, I shall take the ground I think is right. If I do not go away from here a wiser man, I shall go away a better Let the people know the truth, and the country is safe. I shall stay right here and do my duty. There is no such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the these great self-evident truths, that when in the future some man, No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom; and that the


