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Franklin (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry lincoln-abraham
er Institute address. On Feb. 27, 1860, Mr. Lincoln delivered the following address in Cooper Institute, New York City: Mr. President and fellow-citizens of New York,—The facts with which I shall deal this evening are mainly old and familiar; nor is there anything new in the general use I shall make of them. If there shall be any novelty, it will be in the mode of presenting the facts, and the inferences and observations following that presentation. In his speech last autumn at Columbus, Ohio, as reported in the New York times, Senator Douglas said: Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now. I fully endorse this, and I adopt it as a text for this discourse. I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and an agreed starting-point for a discussion between Republicans and that wing of the Democracy headed by Senator Douglas. It simply leaves the inquiry: What was the under
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): entry lincoln-abraham
the thirty-nine, was then President of the United States, and as such approved and signed the bill, thus completing its validity as a law, and thus showing that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, forbade the federal government to control as to slavery in federal territory. No great while after the adoption of the original Constitution, North Carolina ceded to the federal government the country now constituting the State of Tennessee; and a few years later Georgia ceded that which now constitutes the States of Mississippi and Alabama. In both deeds of cession it was made a condition by the ceding States that the federal government should not prohibit slavery in the ceded country. Besides this, slavery was then actually in the ceded country. Under these circumstances, Congress on taking charge of these countries, did not absolutely prohibit slavery within them. But they did interfere with it—take control of it—
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): entry lincoln-abraham
t we have before us the chief materials enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong. I think and shall try to show that it is wrong—wrong in its direct effect, letting slavery into Kansas and Nebraska, and wrong in its prospective principle, allowing it to spread to every other part of the wide world where men can be found inclined to take it. This declared indifference, but, as I must think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I c more excuse for permitting slavery to go into our own free territory than it would for reviving the African slave-trade by law. The law which forbids the bringing of slaves from Africa, and that which has so long forbidden the taking of them to Nebraska, can hardly be distinguished on any moral principle; and the repeal of the former could find quite as plausible excuses as that of the latter. I have reason to know that Judge Douglas knows that I said this. I think he has the answer here to
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry lincoln-abraham
the same time that Jefferson Davis, the elected President of the Southern Confederacy, was on his way from his home to the capital of the Confederacy. Lincoln made a long journey of hundreds of miles through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, everywhere greeted with demonstrations of profound respect, and speaking to the crowds who came out to see him words full of cheerfulness, kindness, forbearance, and tenderness. Common prudence counselledwo words —Union and Disunion. Mr. Lincoln was re-elected by an unprecedented majority in the electoral college. His opponent— General McClellan—received the votes only of the two late slave-labor States of Delaware and Kentucky and the State of New Jersey. The soldiers in the army gave 121,000 votes for Lincoln and 35,050 for McClellan, or three to one in favor of the former. They did not regard the war in which they were struggling as a failure. The freedmen rejoiced at the result, for <
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry lincoln-abraham
f the old times. You charge that we stir up insurrections among your slaves. We deny it; and what is your proof? Harper's Ferry! John Brown! John Brown was no Republican; and you have failed to implicate a single Republican in his Harper's FerrHarper's Ferry enterprise. If any member of our party is guilty in that matter, you know it, or you do not know it. If you do know it, you are inexcusable for not designating the man and proving the fact. If you do not know it, you are inexcusable for assertingced the Southampton insurrection, twenty-eight years ago, in which at least three times as many lives were lost as at Harper's Ferry? You can scarcely stretch your very elastic fancy to the conclusion that Southampton was got up by Black Republicanipt, which ends in little else than his own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon and John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry were, in their philosophy, precisely the same. The eagerness to cast blame on old England in the one case and on New
Springfield (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry lincoln-abraham
sident's body was embalmed and taken back to his home in Springfield by almost the same route as he went to the capital more as a call for a convention to form a Republican party at Springfield; and I think that my friend Mr. Lovejoy, who is here upot go in. I believe it is also true that I went away from Springfield, when the convention was in session, to attend court in h the judge has spoken. He has read from my speech in Springfield in which I say that a house divided against itself cannot one man from holding them. When I made my speech at Springfield, of which the judge complains, and from which he quotes,nd for a little while to one or two other things in that Springfield speech. My main object was to show, so far as my humbles an illustration, the next time I met him, which was at Springfield, I used this expression, that I claimed no right under tould take it as an expression from me? In a speech at Springfield, on the night of the 17th, I thought I might as well at
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry lincoln-abraham
onstrained them to oppose the prohibition. Again, George Washington, another of the thirty-nine, was then President of the United States, and as such approved and signed the bill, thus completing its validity as a law, and thus showing that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, forbade the federal government to control as to slavery in federal territory. No great while after the adoption of the original Constitution, North Carolina ceded to the federal government the country now constituting the State of Tennessee; and a few years later Georgia ceded that which now constitutes the States of Mississippi and Alabama. In both deeds of cession it was made a condition by the ceding States that the federal government should not prohibit slavery in the ceded country. Besides this, slavery was then actually in the ceded country. Under these circumstances, Congress on taking charge of these countries, did not absolutely
America (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry lincoln-abraham
ly like the real speech, the following language: I did not answer the charge [of conspiracy] before for the reason that I did not suppose there was a man in America with a heart so corrupt as to believe such a charge could be true. I have too much respect for Mr. Lincoln to suppose he is serious in making the charge. I comed rather a grave charge in fun. I confess it strikes me rather strangely. But I let it pass. As the judge did not for a moment believe that there was a man in America whose heart was so corrupt as to make such a charge, and as he places me among the men in America who have hearts base enough to make such a charge, I hope he wilAmerica who have hearts base enough to make such a charge, I hope he will excuse me if I hunt out another charge very like this; and, if it should turn out that in hunting I should find that other, and it should turn out to be Judge Douglas himself who made it, I hope he will reconsider this question of the deep corruption of heart he has thought fit to ascribe to me. In Judge Douglas's speech of March
Springfield (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry lincoln-abraham
ded a company in the Black Hawk War. Appointed postmaster at Salem, he began to study law, was admitted to practice in 1836, and began his career as a lawyer at Springfield. He rose rapidly in his profession, became a leader of the Whig party in Illinois, and was a popular though homely speaker at political Abraham Lincoln. Ab and just as it closed was assassinated at the national capital, dying April 15, 1865. His journey to the capital. The President-elect left his home in Springfield, Ill. Feb. 11, 1861, for Washington, D. C. accompanied by a few personal and political friends. To the crowd at the railway station, evidently impressed with th sides who would not hold slaves under any circumstances; and others who would gladly introduce slavery anew if The Lincoln monument in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill. it were out of existence. We know that some Southern men do free their slaves, go North, and become tip-top abolitionists; while some Northern ones go Sou
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): entry lincoln-abraham
my history and actions for the last twenty years to speak for themselves as to my political principles and my fidelity to political obligations. The Washington Union has a personal grievance. When the editor was nominated for public printer, I declined to vote for him, and stated that at some time I might give my reasons for doing so. Since I declined to give that vote, this scurrilous abuse, these vindictive and constant attacks, have been repeated almost daily on me. Will my friend from Michigan read the article to which I allude? This is a part of the speech. You must excuse me from reading the entire article of the Washington Union, as Mr. Stuart read it for Mr. Douglas. The judge goes on and sums up, as I think, correctly: Mr. President, you here find several distinct propositions advanced boldly by the Washington Union editorially, and apparently authoritatively; and any man who questions any of them is denounced as an abolitionist, a free-soiler, a fanatic. The pro
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