Identifier: abrahamlincolnba03newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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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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ate or States go to fighting anddefying the laws, the Union being yet undissolved saveby their own say-so, I guess they will have to be madeto behave themselves. ... 1 fear nothing, care fornothing, but another disgraceful back-down of the freeStates. That is the only real danger. Let the Unionslide — it may be reconstructed ; let Presidents be as-sassinated, we can elect more; let the Republicans bedefeated and crushed, we shall rise again. But anothernasty compromise, whereby everything is conceded andnothing secured, will so thoroughly disgrace and hu-miliate us that we can never again raise our heads, andthis country becomes a second edition of the BarbaryStates, as they were sixty years ago. Take any formbut that. t * W. C. Bryant to I^incoln, Jan. 3d, 1861. Unpub-lished MS. t Greeley to Lincoln, Dec. 22d, i860. UnpublishedMS. t Lincoln to Kellogg, Dec. nth, i860. UnpublishedMS. It would have been well had his advice been fol-lowed. Under the pressure of the disunionists and of
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THURLOW WEED. (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRADY.) On this point Lincolns note had reassuredhis shrinking faith. The Tribune announcedthat Mr. Lincoln had no thought of conces-sions, and thenceforward that powerful journaltook a more healthy and hopeful tone. Hon. William Kellogg, the Illinois represen-tative on the Committee of Thirty-three, wroteto him for instructions as to the course he shouldpursue. Under date of December nth Mr. Lin-coln replied to him as follows: Entertain no proposition for a compromise in re-gard to the extension of slavery. The instant you dothey have us under again : all our labor is lost, andsooner or later must be done over. Douglas is sure tobe again trying to bring in his Popular Sovereignty.Have none of it. The tug has to come, and better nowthan later. You know I think the fugitive-slave clauseof the Constitution ought to be enforced—to put it inits mildest form, ought not to be resisted. % Some weeks later Kellogg visited Lincoln tourge his views of compr

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