...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... yet it is in a peculiar degree both illustrative and typical of the great statesman who made it, alike in its strong com- 4 The Writings of Abraham ... ...He says: “….the moral qualities that are required in the higher spheres of statesmanship [are not] those of a hero or a saint. Passionate earnestness ... ... votes for the famous Wilmot Proviso, intended to exclude slavery from the Territories acquired from Mexico. But when, at the expiration of his term, ... ...-Nebraska Bill in 1854. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise, opening the Territories of the United States, the heritage of coming generations, to th... ...dly dis- avowed any wish on his part to have social and political equality established between whites and blacks. On this point he summed up his views... ...n which he was, if rightly controlled. He ig- nored the insult, but firmly established his superiority. In his reply, which he forthwith despatched, h...

...Introduction: 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 November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Treatise on Government by Aristotle, trans. William Ellis, t... ...r Aristotle did not separate, as we are inclined to do, the spheres of the statesman and the moralist. In the Ethics he has described the character ne... ...he individual but in a description of the legislative opportunities of the statesman. It is the legislator’s task to frame a society which shall make ... ...HAPTER I AS WE SEE that every city is a society, and every society Ed. is established for some good purpose; for an apparent [Bekker 1252a] good is t... ... always an ox before a household slave. That society then which nature has established for daily sup- port is the domestic, and those who compose it a... ...s; for it is not supreme in all circumstances; but when the king quits the territories of the state he is their general in war; and all religious affa...

... DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some... ...y of this little novel to a beautiful girl of seventeen, the daughter of a statesman in Westmoreland, not designing any deception (nor so much as any ... ...light was ever thrown—all these capi- tal heads of the narrative have been established beyond the reach of scepticism: and, in consequence, the story ... ...th, concentrated in a small number of hands, exists in various continental states upon a larger scale than with us, moderately large estates, on the o... ...when her Grecian vassal prepared to trample on her yoke. In her Euro- pean territories she reckoned, at the utmost, eight millions of subjects. But th... ... this sketch of her modern condition, that pretty nearly the same European territories as were assigned to the eastern Roman empire at the time of its...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so wid...

...Contents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ..........................................

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...proved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the aut... ... officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services a... ..., the enemy can threaten us on the Potomac and elsewhere. Until we have re-established the national authority, all these places must be held, and we m... ... as a favor because they have marched from Cumberland Gap. The pre- cedent established by it would evidently break up the whole army. Buell’s old troo... ...cs have protested against the sending of such colonies to their respective territories. Under these circumstances I have declined to move any such col... ...graph with the line which is being extended across the Russian Empire. The Territories of the United States, with unimportant ex- 177 The Writings of...

...hird section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the ...

...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of th... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...n years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Con... ...fore, practical and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither specu... ...rchs in many contests, in many countries, and were grouped into creeds and established in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the... ... of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever devise... ...he States of New England. It was generally allowed at that period that the territories of the New World belonged to that European nation which had bee... ...ng that the State of Ohio should claim the same right in behalf of certain territories lying within its boundaries, upon the plea that the Constitutio...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...