A Straight Deal: Or, The Ancient GrudgeMacmillan, 1920 - 287 pagina's |
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Pagina 87 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Pagina 118 - The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation, this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us.
Pagina 146 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Pagina 142 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Pagina 141 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Pagina 169 - It appears to her Majesty's government that there are but two questions by which the claim of compensation could be tested. The one is, Have the British government acted with due diligence, or, in other words, with good faith and honesty, in the maintenance of the neutrality they proclaimed? The other is, Have the law officers of the crown properly understood the Foreign Enlistment Act, when they declined, in June, 1862, to advise the detention and seizure of the Alabama...
Pagina 142 - You can have no conflict without being yourselves <D vigilance : the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it.
Pagina 168 - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Pagina 168 - Government of this country, and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, and to pay a fine of ten thousand dollars ; ' And whereas, the said Alfred Rubery is of the immature age of twenty years, and of highly respectable parentage ; ' And whereas, the said Alfred Rubery is a subject of Great Britain, and his pardon is desired by John Bright, of England ; ' Now therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, these and divers other considerations me thereunto...
Pagina 118 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all on earth; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world.