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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 23 . (search)
Chapter 23.
Cameron's report
Lincoln's letter to Bancroft
annual message on slavery
the Delaware experiment
joint resolution on compensated abolishment
first border State interview
Stevens's comment-
District of Columbia abolishment
Committee on abolishment
Hunter's order revoked
antislavery measures of Congress
second border State interview
emancipation proposed and postponed
The relation of the war to the institution of slavery has been touched upon in descri ld from the enemy to be disposed of in future as Congress might deem best.
Mr. Lincoln saw clearly enough what a serious political role the slavery question was likely to play during the continuance of the war. Replying to a letter from the Hon. George Bancroft, in which that accomplished historian predicted that posterity would not be satisfied with the results of the war unless it should effect an increase of the free States, the President wrote:
The main thought in the closing paragra
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter XV (search)
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter XVI (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , November (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862 , April (search)
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Mr. Bancroft on the Declaration of Independence . (search)
Mr. Bancroft on the Declaration of Independence.
Mr. Rufus Choate, deceased, has left upon record his opi d it, but we are happy to have the opinion of Mr. George Bancroft, the best known of our historians, that the D on was not a tissue of glittering generalities.
Mr. Bancroft contradicts the late Mr. Rufus Choate point blan iously responsive to those of that advocate; for Mr. Bancroft says distinctly that the Declaration avoided spe ing their virtuous horror when they read what Mr. George Bancroft has written.
The bill of rights which it (i. al justice that is anterior to the State.
But Mr. Bancroft goes still further; nor can we forbear the pleas he glad tidings and their universal application, Mr. Bancroft says: The astonished nations as they read that a ly-remembered accents of their mother tongue.
Mr. Bancroft, it will be seen, does not speak with the fashio distinctions — it is plea it to find a man like Mr. Bancroft adhering to a sensible and simple construction o
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Index. (search)
Index.
page
Adams, Rev. Nehemiah58, 248
Average of Mankind188
Army, Patriotism of189
Abolition and Secession192
Americans in England251
Buchanan, James6, 7, 29, 32, 128, 129
Benton, Thomas, his estimate of John Y. Mason16
Bird, Rev. Milton80
Bancroft, George106
Bickley, K. G. C.111
Bliss, Seth136
Brooks, Preston182
Beaufort, the Bacchanal of197
Bodin on Slavery303
Butler, General317, 318, 320, 322
Burke, Edmund, an Emancipationist328
Bachelder, Dr., a Funny Physician312
Buxton, Fowell384
Choate, Rufus45, 58, 84
Choate, Rufus Scrambles of his Biographers102
Cumberland Presbyterian Church68
Cumberland Presbyterian Newspaper79
Columbia (S. C.), Bell-Ringing in125
Commons, House of, on Gregory's Motion168
Colleges, Southern172
Cotton, Moral Influence of201
Congress, The Confederate222, 238
Clergymen, Second--Hand224
Carlyle, Thomas323
Davis, Jefferson42, 274, 279, 282, 283, 288, 380, 388, 3
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 132 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 132 (search)
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The organization of the Federal Navy (search)
The organization of the Federal Navy
George Bancroft — founder of the naval academy: already notable as a historian in 1845, Bancroft signalized his entrance into president Polk's cabinet, as secretary of the navy, by founding the navalBancroft signalized his entrance into president Polk's cabinet, as secretary of the navy, by founding the naval school, later the academy at Annapolis
Jack-tars of the old navy: the pivot-gun of the Wissahickon and its crew
A glance at these seasoned men ranged alongside the 9-inch pivot-gun of the sloop-of-war Wissahickon gives us an idea of the appear iting orders.
U. S. Naval Academy.
Among the multifarious distinguished services of the scholarly and versatile Bancroft was his founding of the Naval School while Secretary of the Navy in 1845.
It was reorganized and renamed the Naval Acad l science had again been resumed here, the Academy having been moved to Newport, Rhode Island, during the war. While George Bancroft, approaching three-score years and ten, was writing history in New York during the great civil struggle, the graduat