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Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 838 2 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 280 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 246 2 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 180 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 140 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 96 2 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 80 0 Browse Search
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights 76 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 66 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 63 1 Browse Search
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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 6: Retrospect and prospect. (search)
re? Nothing less than a bill of sale from God Almighty. This story gives the two elements, pity and business interest, expressed in terms of constitutional argument. It summarizes the labors of our statesmen,--Webster, Calhoun, Sumner, Taney, Douglas, Lincoln,--each of whom had his bout with the problem. The unfortunate American statesmen who were obliged to formulate a philosophy upon the matter seem to me like that procession of hypocrites in Dante's Purgatory, robed in mantles of lead. e was one of the greatest political geniuses and one of the most beautiful characters that ever lived; and he managed somehow to be intellectually honest and very nearly frank while fulfilling his mission. Yet I can never read his debates with Douglas or consider his Border-State policy without being struck by the technical nature of all our history. One of Lincoln's chief interests in life, from early manhood onward, lay in emancipation. This he could not say and remain in politics; nay, h
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 10: foreign influence: summary (search)
thousands of men are sustaining him by their attention and in their hope. Thus in 1858, Lincoln suddenly became the great general-agent of political Antislavery in America; because his brain was exactly fitted for this work, which deified him quite rapidly. So of a hundred other cases of deification or demonization:leaders seem to be grabbed, used and flung aside by immaterial and pitiless currents of force, which had as lief destroy as benefit their darlings. Witness the career of Stephen A. Douglas. Garrison was the leader of Abolition from its inception to its triumph. His genius, .and his activity kept it a unity, despite the incessant tearing and crumbling that were the normal accompaniment of its spreading influence. I have never met the man or woman, said Wendell Phillips in 1865, who had struck any effectual blow at the slave system in this country, whose action was not born out of the heart and conscience of William Lloyd Garrison. There is a certain verbal exaggera
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
promise of 1850, 177, 258. Constitution of U. S., Slavery and, 13, 15, 16, 140ff., 168ff., 172, 173; publicly burned by G., 174. Constitutional Convention (1787), 9, 13. Cooper Union, Emerson's speech at, 234 ff. Copley, Josiah, quoted, 57. Cottage Bible, the, 76. Crandall, Prudence, case of, 70 if., indicted and convicted, 72, 73; 80, 106. Crandall, Reuben, Io6. Cromwell, Oliver, 165. Daizwin, Charles, quoted, 252. disunion, effect of threat of, 257, 258. Douglas, Stephen A., 140, 241. Douglass, Frederick, in Boston, 19, 20 and n., 21; at Rynders Mob meeting, 215, 216, 217; 108, 210. Dresser, Amos, flogging of, 75f. Emancipation, Immediate, G. the apostle of, 47; genesis of, 47, 48; 238. Emancipator, the, quoted, 148-150. Emerson, Edward W., quotes, 231. Emerson, R. W., on the relations of North and South, 18; his Phi Beta Kappa address (1835) and G.'s at Park St. Church (1829), compared, 43-45; difference between G. and, 45, 46, 219ff.; his