New York Tribune, August 15, 1862, 1, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83030213/1862-08-15/ed-1/. This afternoon the president of the United States gave audience to a committee of colored men at the White House. They were
Abraham Lincoln, Message to Congress, July 4, 1861, second printed draft, with changes in Lincoln’s hand, Abraham Lincoln papers, Series 1: General Correspondence, May–June 1861, Manuscript/Mixed Material, Library of Congress,
In his Inaugural Address, Lincoln affirmed that, as the Constitution required, he would see that the laws were faithfully executed throughout the Union.
Philadelphia North American and United States Gazette, February 23, 1861, Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lincoln/interactives/journey-of-the-president-elect/feb_22/article_1_504j_highlight_3.html. Mr. Cuyler:1 I am filled with deep emotion at finding myself
New Letters and Papers of Lincoln, comp. Paul M. Angle (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,1930), 240–241, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ptid=miun.abj5413.0001.001&view=1up&seq=263&skin=2021&q1=fragment. All this is not the result of accident. It has a philosophical cause. Without the
Republicans, he said, stood for a principled moderation between the extremism of both slaveholders and abolitionists, and were thus best suited to lead the country through the coming political crisis.
Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Centenary Edition, vol. 2, ed. Marion Mills Miller (New York: Current Literature Publishing, 1907), 277–293, https://archive.org/details/lifeworksofabrah04linc/page/n9. Members of the Agricultural Society and Citizens of
Source: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858, Lincoln Series, vol. 1, ed. Edwin Earle Sparks (Springfield: Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library, 1908). The First Debate—Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858Mr.
Source: Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Centenary Edition, vol. 2, ed. Marion Mills Miller (New York: Current Literature Publishing, 1907), 73–86, https://archive.org/details/lifeworks02lincuoft/page/274. Although the temperance cause has been in progress
Source: Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Centenary Edition, vol. 2, ed. Marion Mills Miller (New York: Current Literature Publishing Company, 1907), 73–86, https://archive.org/details/lifeworks02lincuoft/page/274. Although the Temperance cause has been
