Identifier: lifeofabrahamlin4913nich (find matches)
Title: Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Nichols, Clifton M. (Clifton Melvin), 1830-1903 McKinley, William, 1843-1901. Oration on Abraham Lincoln Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. Abraham Lincoln Knox, William, 1789-1825. Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York City Springfield, Ohio Chicago, Ill. : Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick
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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ought not todeter us from the support of a cause which we believe to be just. It shall notdeter me. If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions notwholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the causeof my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly alone,and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. Here, without contemplating consequences, before heaven, and in the face ofthe world, I swear eternal fidelity to the just coKse, as I deem it, of the land ofmy life, my liberty, and my love; and who that thinks with me will not fearlesslyadopt the oath that I take? Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so; we have the proud consolation of say-ing to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our countrys freedom, thatthe cause approved of our judgment, and, adorned of our hearts in disaster, inchains, in death, we never faltered in defending.
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REVIEW OF THE UNION ARMIES AT WASHINGTON.205 206 THOUGHTS AND SAYINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. REDEMPTION OF THE AFRICAN RAGE. (Eulogy on the life and character of Henry Clay, Springfield, Illinois, July 16, 1852.) This saggestion of the possible ultimate redemption of the African race andAfrican continent was made twenty-five years ago. Every succeeding year hasadded strength to the hope of its. realization. May it indeed be realized!Pharaohs country was cursed with plagues, and his hosts drowned in the Redsea for striving to retain a captive people who had already served them morethan four hundred years. May like disaster never befall us! If, as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations otour countrymen shall, by any means, succeed in freeing our land from thedangerous presence of slavery, and at the same time restoring a captive people totheir long-lost fatherland, with bright prospects for the future, and this, too, sogradually that neither races nor individu

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