Lincoln, His Life and Time (Volume 2); Being the Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States, Together with ... and Proclamations and Closing Scenes Connect baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1891. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... months have contemplated seizing tde person uf the late President. It it, however, doubtful whether he imagined the black deed which has plunged the nation into the deepest gloom, and at the same time awakened it to a just and righteous indignation: --, '864. Mv Dear Sir: --You may use this as you think best. But as som4 may wish to know when, who, and why, and as I do not know how -(c) direct it, I give it (in the words of your master): -- 'To whom it may concern." Itight or wrong, God judge me, not man. For be my motive goud or bad, of one thing I am sure, the lasting condemnation of the North. I love peace more than life. Have loved the Union beyond expn*sion. For four years have I waited, hoped, and prayed for the dark ciodds w break, and for a restoration of our former sunshine. To wait longer would be a crime All hope for peace is dead. My prayers ha DEGREESe prorad as idle as my hopes. God's will be done. I go to see and s'lWe the bitter end. 1 have ever held that the South were right. The verr u j.r.ination of Abraham Lincoln, four years ago, spoke plainly war--war r.pon Southern rights and institutions. His election proved it. "Await -.& overt act." Yes; till you are bound and plundered. What folly! Yae South were wise. Who thinks of argument or patience when the flj/er of his enemy presses on the trigger? In a foreign war, I, too, corji say, "Country, right or wrong." Hut in a struggle such as ours (vvhe.rj the broth*?* tries to pierce the brother's heart), for God's sake choose the right. UTien a country like this spurns justice from her side, she /j. eits the allfgiance of every honest freeman, and should leave him, u.trammelled by any fealty soever, to act as his conscience may approo People of the North, to hate tyranny, to lov DEGREES /berty .