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List of most recent chapters published for the The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln novel. A total of 297 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln.by Abraham Lincoln.VOLUME 1.INTRODUCTORY Imme
The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln.by Abraham Lincoln.VOLUME 1.INTRODUCTORY Immediately after Lincoln's re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of Novemb
- 1 The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln.by Abraham Lincoln.VOLUME 1.INTRODUCTORY Immediately after Lincoln's re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of Novemb
- 2 While in this manner he exercised an ever-increasing influence upon the popular understanding, his sympathetic nature endeared him more and more to the popular heart. In vain did journals and speakers of the opposition represent him as a lightminded trifl
- 3 The conscience of the North was slow to rise against it, though bitter controversies from time to time took place. The Southern leaders threatened disunion if their demands were not complied with. To save the Union, compromise after compromise was made, b
- 4 "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as G.o.d gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for h
- 5 While acting as their representative, I shall be governed by their will on all subjects upon which I have the means of knowing what their will is; and upon all others I shall do what my own judgment teaches me will best advance their interests. Whether el
- 6 But supposing we had the authority, I would ask what good can result from the examination? Can we declare the Bank unconst.i.tutional, and compel it to desist from the abuses of its power, provided we find such abuses to exist? Can we repair the injuries
- 7 This thing of living in Springfield is rather a dull business, after all; at least it is so to me. I am quite as lonesome here as I ever was anywhere in my life. I have been spoken to by but one woman since I have been here, and should not have been by he
- 8 Is common sense to be abused with such sophistry? Did I say what Talbott found it in? If Talbott did find it in another paper at his office, is that any reason why he could not have folded it in a deed and brought it to my office? Can any one be so far du
- 9 SPRINGFIELD, April 1, 1838.DEAR MADAM:--Without apologizing for being egotistical, I shall make the history of so much of my life as has elapsed since I saw you the subject of this letter. And, by the way, I now discover that, in order to give a full and
- 10 I shall advert to but one more point. Mr. Lamborn refers to the late elections in the States, and from their results confidently predicts that every State in the Union will vote for Mr. Van Buren at the next Presidential election. Address that argument to
- 11 Resolved, That so much of the governor's message as relates to fraudulent voting, and other fraudulent practices at elections, be referred to the Committee on Elections, with instructions to said committee to prepare and report to the House a bill fo
- 12 The declarations of the party leaders, the selection of party men for judges, and the total disregard for the public will in the adoption of the measure, prove conclusively that the object has been not reform, but destruction; not the advancement of the h
- 13 Say candidly, were not those heavenly black eyes the whole basis of all your early reasoning on the subject? After you and I had once been at the residence, did you not go and take me all the way to Lexington and back, for no other purpose but to get to s
- 14 By the Was.h.i.+ngtonians this system of consigning the habitual drunkard to hopeless ruin is repudiated. They adopt a more enlarged philanthropy; they go for present as well as future good. They labor for all now living, as well as hereafter to live. The
- 15 I do not think I can come to Kentucky this season. I am so poor and make so little headway in the world, that I drop back in a month of idleness as much as I gain in a year's sowing. I should like to visit you again.I should like to see that "si
- 16 "What do you want, Peggy?""Do get through your everlasting clatter some time, and bring me a gourd of water; the child's been crying for a drink this livelong hour.""Let it die, then; it may as well die for water as to be tax
- 17 Second. Position: A plank ten feet long, and from nine to twelve inches broad, to be firmly fixed on edge, on the ground, as the line between us, which neither is to pa.s.s his foot over upon forfeit of his life.Next a line drawn on the ground on either s
- 18 Much incomprehensible jargon is often used against the const.i.tutionality of this measure. We forbear, in this place, attempting an answer to it, simply because, in our opinion, those who urge it are through party zeal resolved not to see or acknowledge
- 19 TO GEN. J. J. HARDIN.SPRINGFIELD, May 11, 1843.FRIEND HARDIN: Butler informs me that he received a letter from you, in which you expressed some doubt whether the Whigs of Sangamon will support you cordially. You may, at once, dismiss all fears on that sub
- 20 3d. As to your proposed stipulation that all the candidates shall remain in their own counties, and restrain their friends in the same it seems to me that on reflection you will see the fact of your having been in Congress has, in various ways, so spread
- 21 Nathan Dresser is here, and speaks as though the contest between Hardin and me is to be doubtful in Menard County. I know he is candid and this alarms me some. I asked him to tell me the names of the men that were going strong for Hardin, he said Morris w
- 22 Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.We have another boy, born the 10th of March. He is very much such a child as Bob was at his age, rather of a longer order. Bob
- 23 As to the report, he had but one remark to make: he had carefully examined it, and he did not understand that there was any dispute as to the facts therein stated the dispute, if he understood it, was confined altogether to the inferences to be drawn from
- 24 "Article IX. That all Texan prisoners now in the possession of the Mexican army, or its authorities, be forthwith released, and furnished with free pa.s.sports to return to their homes; in consideration of which a corresponding number of Mexican pris
- 25 Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Postoffice and Post Roads, made the following report: The Committee on the Post-office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the resolution of the House of Representatives ent.i.tled "An Act authorizing postmaste
- 26 There was one portion of the argument of the gentleman from Indiana, the chairman of the Committee on Territories [Mr. Smith], which he wished to take occasion to say that he did not view as unsound. He alluded to the statement that the General Government
- 27 Mr. Chairman, on the third position of the message the const.i.tutional question--I have not much to say. Being the man I am, and speaking, where I do, I feel that in any attempt at an original const.i.tutional argument I should not be and ought not to be
- 28 Your friend, as ever, A. LINCOLN.GENERAL TAYLOR AND THE VETO SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JULY 27, 1848.Mr. SPEAKER, our Democratic friends seem to be in a great distress because they think our candidate for the Presidency don't suit us. M
- 29 But I have introduced General Ca.s.s's accounts here chiefly to show the wonderful physical capacities of the man. They show that he not only did the labor of several men at the same time, but that he often did it at several places, many hundreds of
- 30 In relation to the fact a.s.sumed, that after a while, the new States having got hold of the public lands to a certain extent, they would turn round and compel Congress to relinquish all claim to them, he had a word to say, by way of recurring to the hist
- 31 HON. POSTMASTER-GENERAL.DEAR Sir:--I recommend that Abner Y. Ellis be appointed postmaster at this place, whenever there shall be a vacancy. J. R. Diller, the present inc.u.mbent, I cannot say has failed in the proper discharge of any of the duties of the
- 32 REQUEST FOR A PATENT IMPROVED METHOD OF LIFTING VESSELS OVER SHOALS.Application for Patent: What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the combination of expansible buoyant chambers placed at the sides of a vessel with the ma
- 33 SPRINGFIELD, Dec. 15, 1849.------ ESQ.DEAR SIR:--On my return from Kentucky I found your letter of the 7th of November, and have delayed answering it till now for the reason I now briefly state. From the beginning of our acquaintance I had felt the greate
- 34 MY DEAR SIR:--Our case is decided against us. The decision was announced this morning. Very sorry, but there is no help. The history of the case since it came here is this. On Friday morning last, Mr. Joy filed his papers, and entered his motion for a man
- 35 TO JOHN D. JOHNSTON.SHELBYVILLE, November 9, 1851 DEAR BROTHER:--When I wrote you before, I had not received your letter.I still think as I did, but if the land can be sold so that I get three hundred dollars to put to interest for Mother, I will not obje
- 36 "There is a moral fitness in the idea of returning to Africa her children, whose ancestors have been torn from her by the ruthless hand of fraud and violence. Transplanted in a foreign land, they will carry back to their native soil the rich fruits o
- 37 A. LINCOLN.REPLY TO SENATOR DOUGLAS--PEORIA SPEECH SPEECH AT PEORIA, ILLINOIS, IN REPLY TO SENATOR DOUGLAS, OCTOBER 16, 1854.I do not rise to speak now, if I can stipulate with the audience to meet me here at half-past six or at seven o'clock. It is
- 38 But next it is said that the compromises of '50, and the ratification of them by both political parties in '52, established a new principle which required the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. This again I deny. I deny it, and demand the proof.
- 39 I have done with this mighty argument of self-government. Go, sacred thing! Go in peace.But Nebraska is urged as a great Union-saving measure. Well, I too go for saving the Union. Much as I hate slavery, I would consent to the extension of it rather than
- 40 Finally, the Judge invokes against me the memory of Clay and Webster, They were great men, and men of great deeds. But where have I a.s.sailed them?For what is it that their lifelong enemy shall now make profit by a.s.suming to defend them against me, the
- 41 LOSS OF PRIMARY FOR SENATOR TO E. B. WASHBURNE.SPRINGFIELD, February 9, 1855 MY DEAR SIR: I began with 44 votes, s.h.i.+elds 41, and Trumbull 5,--yet Trumbull was elected. In fact 47 different members voted for me,--getting three new ones on the second ba
- 42 Your friend forever, A. LINCOLN.1856 REQUEST FOR A RAILWAY Pa.s.s TO R. P. MORGAN SPRINGFIELD, February 13, 1856.R. P. MORGAN, ESQ.: Says Tom to John, "Here's your old rotten wheelbarrow. I've broke it usin'on it. I wish you would mend
- 43 Its aggressions and encroachments almost surpa.s.s belief. In a despotism, one might not wonder to see slavery advance steadily and remorselessly into new dominions; but is it not wonderful, is it not even alarming, to see its steady advance in a land ded
- 44 You further charge us with being disunionists. If you mean that it is our aim to dissolve the Union, I for myself answer that it is untrue; for those who act with me I answer that it is untrue. Have you heard us a.s.sert that as our aim? Do you really bel
- 45 AFTER THE DEMOCRATIC VICTORY OF BUCHANAN FRAGMENT OF SPEECH AT A REPUBLICAN BANQUET IN CHICAGO, DECEMBER 10, 1856.We have another annual Presidential message. Like a rejected lover making merry at the wedding of his rival, the President felicitates himsel
- 46 "It is maintained by the advocates of the bank that its const.i.tutionality, in all its features, ought to be considered as settled by precedent, and by the decision of the Supreme Court. To this conclusion I cannot a.s.sent.Mere precedent is a dange
- 47 ARGUMENT IN THE ROCK ISLAND BRIDGE CASE.(From the Daily Press of Chicago, Sept. 24, 1857.) Hurd et al. vs Railroad Bridge Co.United States Circuit Court, Hon. John McLean, Presiding Judge.13th day, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 1857.Mr. A. Lincoln addressed the jury
- 48 Yours as ever, A. LINCOLN.TO J. GILLESPIE.SPRINGFIELD, Feb 7, 1858 MY DEAR SIR: Yesterday morning the court overruled the demurrer to Hatches return in the mandamus case. McClernand was present; said nothing about pleading over; and so I suppose the matte
- 49 Profession, a lawyer.Have been a captain of volunteers in Black Hawk war.Postmaster at a very small office.Four times a member of the Illinois Legislature and was a member of the lower house of Congress.Yours, etc., A. LINCOLN.THE PAPERS AND WRITINGS OF A
- 50 MY FELLOW-CITIZENS:--On yesterday evening, upon the occasion of the reception given to Senator Douglas, I was furnished with a seat very convenient for hearing him, and was otherwise very courteously treated by him and his friends, and for which I thank h
- 51 A little now on the other point,--the Dred Scott decision. Another of the issues he says that is to be made with me is upon his devotion to the Dred Scott decision, and my opposition to it.I have expressed heretofore, and I now repeat, my opposition to th
- 52 He charges, in substance, that I invite a war of sections; that I propose all the local inst.i.tutions of the different States shall become consolidated and uniform. What is there in the language of that speech which expresses such purpose or bears such c
- 53 A. LINCOLN.Mr. DOUGLAS TO Mr. LINCOLN.BEMENT, PLATT Co., ILL., July 30, 1858.Dear Sir,--Your letter dated yesterday, accepting my proposition for a joint discussion at one prominent point in each Congressional District, as stated in my previous letter, wa
- 54 When my friend Judge Douglas came to Chicago on the 9th of July, this speech having been delivered on the 16th of June, he made an harangue there, in which he took hold of this speech of mine, showing that he had carefully read it; and while he paid no at
- 55 Now, my friends, it will be perceived, upon an examination of these questions and answers, that so far I have only answered that I was not pledged to this, that, or the other. The Judge has not framed his interrogatories to ask me anything more than this,
- 56 "'But no alteration shall be made to affect the right of property in the owners.h.i.+p of slaves.'"It will be seen by these clauses in the Lecompton Const.i.tution that they are identical in spirit with this authoritative article in th
- 57 I want to say here that Thompson Campbell was elected to Congress on that platform, as the Democratic candidate in the Galena District, against Martin P. Sweet.[Judge DOUGLAS: Give me the date of the letter.]The time Campbell ran was in 1850. I have not t
- 58 If the slaveholding citizens of a United States Territory should need and demand Congressional legislation for the protection of their slave property in such Territory, would you, as a member of Congress, vote for or against such legislation?[Judge DOUGLA
- 59 He had no promise that an amendment offered by him to anything on this subject would receive the slightest consideration. Judge Trumbull did bring to the notice of the Senate at that time the fact that there was no provision for submitting the const.i.tut
- 60 Having done so I ask the attention of this audience to the question whether I have succeeded in sustaining the charge, and whether Judge Douglas has at all succeeded in reb.u.t.ting it? You all heard me call upon him to say which of these pieces of eviden
- 61 There is, my friends, only one other point to which I will call your attention for the remaining time that I have left me, and perhaps I shall not occupy the entire time that I have, as that one point may not take me clear through it.Among the interrogato
- 62 And let me ask you, did n't Judge Douglas find a way to reverse the decision of our Supreme Court when it decided that Carlin's father--old Governor Carlin had not the const.i.tutional power to remove a Secretary of State? Did he not appeal to t
- 63 Crittenden in these days, Mr. Crittenden has said there was a falsehood in that whole business, for there was no slavery agitation at that time to allay. We were for a little while quiet on the troublesome thing, and that very allaying plaster of Judge Do
- 64 TO H. C. WHITNEY.SPRINGFIELD, June 24, 1858 H. C. WHITNEY, ESQ.DEAR SIR:--Your letter enclosing the attack of the Times upon me was received this morning. Give yourself no concern about my voting against the supplies. Unless you are without faith that a l
- 65 There is much he cannot do, and some he can. I have reason to hope there will be other help of an appropriate kind. Write me again. Yours as ever, A. LINCOLN. TO B. C. COOK. SPRINGFIELD, Aug. 2, 1858. Hon. B. C. COOK. MY DEAR SIR:--I have a letter from a
- 66 MY DEAR SIR:--I have a letter from a very true friend, and intelligent man, writing that there is a plan on foot in La Salle and Bureau, to run Douglas Republican for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties, if they can only get the encourageme
- 67 I have made it equally plain that I think the negro is included in the word "men" used in the Declaration of Independence.I believe the declaration that "all men are created equal" is the great fundamental principle upon which our free
- 68 TO H. C. WHITNEY.SPRINGFIELD, November 30, 1858 H. C. WHITNEY, ESQ.MY DEAR SIR:--Being desirous of preserving in some permanent form the late joint discussion between Douglas and myself, ten days ago I wrote to Dr.Ray, requesting him to forward to me by e
- 69 TO M. W. DELAHAY.SPRINGFIELD, March 4, 1859.M. W. DELAHAY, Esq.MY DEAR SIR: Your second letter in relation to my being with you at your Republican convention was duly received. It is not at hand just now, but I have the impression from it that the convent
- 70 Your friend as ever, A. LINCOLN.1859 FIRST SUGGESTION OF A PRESIDENTIAL OFFER.TO S. GALLOWAY.SPRINGFIELD, ILL., July 28, 1859.HON. SAMUEL GALLOWAY.MY DEAR SIR:--Your very complimentary, not to say flattering, letter of the 23d inst. is received. Dr. Reyno
- 71 The chief danger to this purpose of the Republican party is not just now the revival of the African slave trade, or the pa.s.sage of a Congressional slave code, or the declaring of a second Dred Scott decision, making slavery lawful in all the States. The
- 72 Compromise! What word of compromise was there about it? Why, the public sense was then in favor of the abolition of the slave trade; but there was at the time a very great commercial interest involved in it, and extensive capital in that branch of trade.
- 73 A voice: I want to ask a question. Don't foreign nations interfere with the slave trade?Mr. LINCOLN: Well! I understand it to be a principle of Democracy to whip foreign nations whenever, they interfere with us.Voice: I only asked for information. I
- 74 But, my friends, I have detained you much longer than I expected to do.I believe I may do myself the compliment to say that you have stayed and heard me with great patience, for which I return you my most sincere thanks.ON PROTECTIVE TARIFFS TO EDWARD WAL
- 75 A. LINCOLN.AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH TO J. W. FELL, SPRINGFIELD, December 20, 1859.J. W. FELL, Esq.MY DEAR SIR:--Herewith is a little sketch, as you requested. There is not much of it, for the reason, I suppose, that there is not much of me. If anything be
- 76 No great while after the adoption of the original Const.i.tution, North Carolina ceded to the Federal Government the country now const.i.tuting the State of Tennessee; and, a few years later, Georgia ceded that which now const.i.tutes the States of Missis
- 77 This, plainly stated, is your language. Perhaps you will say the Supreme Court has decided the disputed const.i.tutional question in your favor.Not quite so. But, waiving the lawyer's distinction between dictum and decision, the court have decided th
- 78 Another thing was done by some of the same men who framed the Const.i.tution, and afterwards adopted as their own the act by the first Congress held under that Const.i.tution, of which many of the framers were members, that prohibited the spread of slaver
- 79 A. LINCOLN.ACCUSATION OF HAVING BEEN PAID FOR A POLITICAL SPEECH TO C. F. McNEIL.SPRINGFIELD, April 6, 1860 C. F. MCNEIL, Esq.DEAR SIR:--Reaching home yesterday, I found yours of the 23d March, inclosing a slip from The Middleport Press. It is not true th
- 80 To C. B. SMITH.SPRINGFIELD, ILL., May 26, 1860.HON. C. B. SMITH.MY DEAR SIR:-Yours of the 21st was duly received, but have found no time until now to say a word in the way of answer. I am indeed much indebted to Indiana; and, as my home friends tell me, m
- 81 Your friend, as ever, A. LINCOLN.[The custom then, and it may have been a good one, was for the Presidential candidate to do no personal canva.s.sing or speaking--or as we have it now "running for election." He stayed at home and kept his mouth
- 82 SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, September 4, 1860 HON. HANNIBAL HAMLIN.MY DEAR SIR:--I am annoyed some by a letter from a friend in Chicago, in which the following pa.s.sage occurs: "Hamlin has written Colfax that two members of Congress will, he fears, be lo
- 83 A. LINCOLN.TO HANNIBAL HAMLIN (Confidential.) SPRINGFIELD. ILLINOIS, November 8, 1860 HON. HANNIBAL HAMLIN.MY DEAR SIR:--I am anxious for a personal interview with you at as early a day as possible. Can you, without much inconvenience, meet me at Chicago?
- 84 Yours as ever, A. LINCOLN.OPINION ON SECESSION TO THURLOW WEED SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 17, 1860 MY DEAR SIR:--Yours of the 11th was received two days ago. Should the convocation of governors of which you speak seem desirous to know my views on the
- 85 (Confidential.) SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Dec 24, 1860 HON. I. N. MORRIS.MY DEAR SIR:--Without supposing that you and I are any nearer together, politically, than heretofore, allow me to tender you my sincere thanks for your Union resolution, expressive of views
- 86 DEAR SIR:--I have both your letter to myself and that to Judge Davis, in relation to a certain gentleman in your State claiming to dispense patronage in my name, and also to be authorized to use my name to advance the chances of Mr. Greeley for an electio
- 87 In regard to the Homestead law, I have to say that, in so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels, so that every poor man may have a home.In regard to the Germans and foreigners, I esteem the
- 88 ADDRESS AT UTICA, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1860 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:--I have no speech to make to you; and no time to speak in. I appear before you that I may see you, and that you may see me; and I am willing to admit that so far as the ladies are concern
- 89 FELLOW-CITIZENS:--I have stepped before you merely in compliance with what appears to be your wish, and not with the purpose of making a speech. I do not propose making a speech this afternoon. I could not be heard by any but a small fraction of you, at b
- 90 REPLY TO THE WILMINGTON DELEGATION, FEBRUARY 22, 1861 MR. CHAIRMAN:--I feel highly flattered by the encomiums you have seen fit to bestow upon me. Soon after the nomination of General Taylor, I attended a political meeting in the city of Wilmington, and h
- 91 Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not, in any case, surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide
- 92 TO SECRETARY SEWARD EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, MARCH 7, 1861 MY DEAR SIR:--Herewith is the diplomatic address and my reply. To whom the reply should be addressed--that is, by what t.i.tle or style--I do not quite understand, and therefore I have left it blank. Wi
- 93 ON ROYAL ARBITRATION OF AMERICAN BOUNDARY LINE TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES The Senate has transmitted to me a copy of the message sent by my predecessor to that body on the 21st of February last, proposing to take its advice on the subject of a pro
- 94 TO ------ STUART.WAs.h.i.+NGTON, March 30, 1861 DEAR STUART: Cousin Lizzie shows me your letter of the 27th. The question of giving her the Springfield post-office troubles me. You see I have already appointed William Jayne a Territorial governor and Judg
- 95 This will raise distinctly the question of union or disunion. I would maintain every fort and possession in the South.FOR FOREIGN NATIONS, I would demand explanations from Spain and France, categorically, at once.I would seek explanations from Great Brita
- 96 I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.I deem it p
- 97 A. LINCOLN.PROCLAMATION OF BLOCKADE, APRIL 27, 1861 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation.Whereas, for the reasons a.s.signed in my proclamation of the nineteenth instant, a blockade of the ports of the States of South Carolina,
- 98 A. LINCOLN.PROCLAMATION CALLING FOR 42,034 VOLUNTEERS, MAY 3, 1861 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.A Proclamation..Whereas existing exigencies demand immediate and adequate measures for the protection of the National Const.i.tution and the preservat
- 99 EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 11, 1861 TO THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.SIR:-Lieut. D. D. Porter was placed in command of the steamer Powhatan, and Captain Samuel Mercer was detached therefrom, by my special order, and neither of them is responsible for any apparent
- 100 TO CAPTAIN DAHLGREEN.EXECUTIVE, MANSION, May 23, 1863.CAPT. DAHLGREEN.MY DEAR SIR:--Allow me to introduce Col. J. A. McLernand, M.C. of my own district in Illinois. If he should desire to visit Fortress Monroe, please introduce him to the captain of one o