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Abraham Lincoln
This portrait of Abraham Lincoln was created by George Peter Alexander Healy (sometimes known as G. P. A. Healy) in 1869, not long after Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865. Lincoln originally sat for Healy in 1864, and the artist depicted Lincoln in this pose in a painting entitled The Peacemakers, an 1868 work that showed Lincoln conferring with Union military leaders during the final days of the Civil War. After Lincoln's death, Healy realized that the painting made an impressive portrait of Lincoln alone and painted three replicas, one of which became part of the White House collection. Lincoln became president on March 4, 1861 and had served in the House of Representatives earlier in his life.
- Artist
- George P. A. Healy
- Date of Work
- 1869
- Type
- Portrait
- Credit
- White House Historical Association (White House Collection)
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Abraham Lincoln: A Lecture
Page 15- I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.' I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.Cité dans 806 livres de 1847 à 2008
Page 38- I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.Cité dans 327 livres de 1857 à 2008
Page 29- Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost.Cité dans 241 livres de 1861 à 2008
Page 28- But negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise, being made, must be kept.Cité dans 213 livres de 1861 à 2008
Page 12- Candidates for the presidency were applauded because they had tried to make slave States of free territory, and the highest court solemnly and ignorantly decided that colored men and women had no rights. Men who insisted that freedom was better than slavery, and that mothers should not be robbed of t
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06/11/1849Page, William T.Brooks, James (Congressman)
Mt Carmel Wabash Co[County]. Illinois
11 June 1849James Brooks Esq[Esquire]–Dear SirSome remarks of yours occasioned by the appointment of the Marshall for New Yorkhas induced me to address you on the subject of an appointment now pending at Washington.6I beleive it is conceded that the Com[Commissioner] of the Land Officeis to be taken from this State. The appointment rest between two individuals Hon. A. Lincoln, late M. C. from this State & a Mr. Butterfieldfrom Chicago. If the administration pays any regard to the wishes of the Whigs & more particularly the working Whigs Mr. L. will receive the appointment. Mr. Lincoln from the first organisation of our party in 1839 to this day has been active in the cause: was a candidate for Elector in /40& /44: traversed the state from one end to the other, addressed the people in almost every County, & with great effect. I speak but the universal sentiment of the Whigs when I say that he has contributed more to sustain the Whig cause than any other man in the State.7And while he has been thus active he has at all times retained the respect & confidence of the Democrats, & probably there is no man in our ranks whose appointment would be more satisfactory to them than Mr. Lincolns. Mr. L. fitness in point of ability will not be denied. all of which, together with his general acquaintancewould make<Page 4>
it a suitable & extremely popular appointment with all parties in this State.On the other hand if Mr. Butterfield has even aided the Whigs in any way I have yet to learn it. Indeed I never heard of him as a Whig, never met him in Convention, never knew of his addressing the people at anytime. But he may have done some service in the cause, yet it is so slight as not to be remarked. I have been familiar with all prominent political movements in this State from the first organisation of the party in 1839
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