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Title: Anecdotal Lincoln : speeches, stories and yarns of the "Immortal Abe" ...
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Selby, Paul, 1825-1913
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Chicago : Thompson & Thomas
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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nment justifies and pos-sibly demands it. I scarcely need to say that I con-sider the military posts and property situated withinthe States which claim to have seceded, as yet belong-ing to the Government of the United States as much asthey did before the supposed secession. Whatever else I may do for the purpose, I shallnot attempt to collect the duties and imposts by anyarmed invasion of any part of the country; notmeaning by this, however, that I may not land a forcedeemed necessary to relieve a fort upon the border ofthe country. From the fact that I have quoted a partof the Inaugural Address, it must not be inferred thatI repudiate any other part, the whole of which Ire-affirm, except so far as what I now say of the mailsmay be regarded as a modification. PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT. Washington, August i6, 1861.By the President of the United States of America. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, on the fifteenth day of April, the Presi-dent of the United States, in view of an insurrection
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LINCOLNS GREAT SPEECHES. 443 against the laws, Constitution, and the Government ofthe United States, which had broken out within theStates of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida,Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and in pursuance ofthe provision of the act entitled an act to provide forcalling forth the militia to execute the laws of theUnion, suppress insurrections and repel invasions, andto repeal the act now in force for that purpose, approvedFebruary 28, 1795, did call forth the militia to suppresssaid insurrection and cause the laws of the Union tobe duly executed, and the insurgents have failed todisperse by the time directed by the President; andwhereas such insurrection has since broken out and yetexists within the States of Virginia, North Carolina,Tennessee, and Arkansas; and whereas the insurgentsin all the said States claim to act under authoritythereof, and such claim is not disclaimed or repudiatedby the person exercising the functions of government,in such States

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