Identifier: abrahamlincolnba02newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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y. The next great error was the MissouriCompromise. But they are both irremedia-ble. There is no remedy for them. We mustsubmit to them. I am prepared to do it. It isevident that the Missouri Compromise cannotbe repealed. So far as that question is con-cerned, we might as well agree to the admis-sion of this territory now as next year, or fiveor ten years hence. * Mr. Douglas closed the debate, advocatingthe passage of the bill for general reasons, andby his silence accepting Atchisons conclu-sions ; but as the morning of the 4th of Marchwas breaking, an unwilling Senate laid thebill on the table by a vote of twenty-three toseventeen, here, as in the House, the West be-ing for and the South against the measure. Itis not probable, however, that in this coursethe South acted with any mental reservationor sinister motive. The great breach of faithwas not yet even meditated. Only a fewhours afterward, in a dignified and statelynational ceremonial, in the midst of foreign * Globe, p. 1113.
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DAVID R. ATCHI (KKOM A DAGUERREOTYPEJ ministers, judges, senators, and representatives,the new President of the United States deliv-ered to the people his inaugural address.High and low were alike intent to discern theopening political currents of the new adminis-tration, but none touched or approached thisparticular subject. The aspirations of YoungAmerica were not toward a conquest of theNorth, but the enlargement of the South. Afreshening breeze filled the sails of annexa-tion and manifest destiny. In bold wordsthe President said : The policy of my admin-istration will not be controlled by any timidforebodings of evil from expansion. Indeed,it is not to be disguised that our attitude asa nation and our position on the globe ren-der the acquisition of certain possessions notwithin our jurisdiction eminently important forour protection, if not in the future essentialfor the preservation of the rights of commerceand the peace of the world. t Reaching theslavery question, he expressed

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