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CAIN AND ABEL Adam and his wife Eve went out into the world to live and to work. For a time they were all alone, After a while God gave them a little child of their own, the first baby that ever came into the world. Eve named him Cain; and after a time another baby came, whom she named Abel. When the two boys grew up, they worked, as their father worked before them. Cain, the elder brother, cho..

ADAM AND EVE The bible tells us that the world was created in this way, but the man was quite alone. Seeing this, God said, " It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make a good companion for him." He caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and took one of his ribs, and out of this rib he made a woman. We call this man Adam and this woman Eve. God said Adam and Eve in dominion ove..

CARRYING THE RICHES OF GOD WITHIN HIMSELF The assassin was John Wilkes Booth, a younger brother of Edwin Booth, a famous actor of Shakespearian roles. A confederate sympathizer as well as an athletic and daring youth of a hot temper, he was the leader of a conspiracy which aimed at the death of several others besides Lincoln. He was found in a barn after two weeks's search. He was shot by his p..

ASSASSINATION On the morning of April 14,1865, the President's son, Captain Robert T. Lincoln, returned from the army and told his father about Lee's surrender in detail. April 14 was the anniversary of the evacuation of Fort Sumter, just four years before. A special program for the evening of that day was announced at Ford's Theatre, Washingtion; and Lincoln, General Grant and other public men..

스크랩 : 0 조회수 : 25 LINCOLN'S SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS On April 3, 1865, the Confederates went out of Richmond. Lee his retreat blocked, surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Lincoln said in his Second Inaugural Address; " With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as Got gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the w..

LINCOLN SPEAKS AT GETTYSBURG In 1861, opening battles brought the Confederates victories. In 1863, when Lee undertook the Gettysburg Campaign, the Confederates' fortune began to go down. Two armies met just west of Gettysburg. On July 3 Lee made a famous charge against the Union center. It was briefly successful, but was finally beaten back. On November 19, 1863, Lincoln made a famous speech at..

THE CIVIL WAR Fort Sumter fell the next day, and it became the beginning of the Civil War. Soon four states seceded, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina. Thus eleven states in the South seceded; the remaining four states were Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland and Missouri. It was fortunate that Maryland did not secede; for Washington, the political center, was between Maryland and Virgi..

LINCOLN LEAVES SPRINGFIELD In 1860 Lincoln was elected the President of the United States. While he waited to take office, seven Southern States, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississipi, Florida, Alabama and Texas, seceded from the Union. On February 11, 1861, he left Springfield for Washington. He said to the crowd from the rear platform of his train: " No one, not in my position, can u..

LINCOLN SPEAKS Lincoln rose slowly and spoke quietly. " I assure Judge Douglas that I too have been in New England, which has been mentioned. I have been those cotton mills and the workers on their way home through the darkness. In those mills cotton picked by black slaves is made into cloth by white people, who are separated from slaves by no more than fifty cents a day. As an American, I can ..

DOUGLAS SPEAKS Stephen Douglas was a great orator, He said; "My fellow citizens, Mr. Lincoln has spoken to you with his usual simple charm and humor. His jokes make you laugh. His pictures of the sad fate of the black slave labor make you cry. He always speak to you as if guiding you to the very door of truth, but then as you are about to enter it, he turns your attention else..