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...D, ILLINOIS, December 19, 1859. MESSRS. G . M. PARSONS AND OTHERS, CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, ETC. GENTLEMEN:—Y our letter of the 7th instant, accom... ...t and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it through many per... ...the States. The people themselves can do this also if they choose; but the executive, as such, has nothing to do with it. His duty is to administer th... ...er angels of our nature. REFUSAL OF SEW ARD RESIGNATION TO WM. H. SEW ARD. EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 4, 1861. MY DEAR SIR:—Y our note of the 2d instant... ... out. 205 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five TO SECRETARY SEW ARD EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, MARCH 7, 1861. MY DEAR SIR:—Herewith is the diplomatic a... ...ARCH 11,1861 HON. SECRETARY OF STA TE. DEAR SIR:—What think you of sending ministers at once as follows: Dayton to En- gland; Fremont to France; Clay ... ...but up to that time we have been preparing circulars and in- structions to ministers and the like, all in perfect harmony, with- out even a suggestion... ...e, and espe- 274 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five cially to all ministers and teachers of religion of all denomina- tions and to all heads ... ... in the House of Repre- sentatives, in the Cabinet, in the Federal courts; ministers and consuls returned from foreign countries to enter the insurrec...

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...ed. He was distressed by losing that approval of his employees to which an executive is always slave. Ordi- narily he left the office with a thousand ... ...hen? That’s the trouble with women, that’s why they don’t make high- class executives; they haven’t any sense of diplomacy. When the proper opportunit... .... But there was opposition from certain Episcopalian and Congregationalist ministers, those renegades whom Mr. Monday so finely called “a bunch of gos... ...m of the Allen House. In an anteroom was the office of the chairman of the executive committee. He was the busiest man in the convention; he was so bu... ...to drag down his fifty thousand bucks a year, to mingle with the big- gest executives on terms of perfect equality, and to show as big a house and as ...

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.......................................................... 230 Chapter 2.6.I. Executive that does not act. ................................................. ...l tyrannies the insupportablest? Again, how anxious was he that the King’s Ministers should have seat and voice in the National Assembly;—doubtless wi... ...? Of Quacks, willing or constrained to be Quacks, the race is everlasting: Ministers Duportail and Dutertre will have to manage much as Ministers Lato... ...levies of men on the frontiers; expecting that, one of these mornings, the Executive Chief Magistrate will be brought over to them, and the civil war ... ... (Carra’s Newspaper, 1st Feb. 1791 (in Hist. Parl. ix. 39).) If indeed the Executive Chief Magistrate, bagged, say in one of these leather cows, were ... ...ere is National Assembly in a body; Jacobin Society, and Societies; King’s Ministers, Municipals, and all 129 Thomas Carlyle Notabilities, Patriot or... ... principes.” By first or by second principles, much is promptly de- cided: Ministers are sent for, instructed how to continue their functions; Lafayet... ..., which wear down unrepaired; all Public Service lies slack and waste: the Executive makes no effort, or an effort only to throw the blame on the Cons... ...I. Brigands and Jales. We shall have War, then; and on what terms! With an Executive ‘pretending, ’ really with less and less deceptive- ness now, ‘to...

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..., the lives of women and children, and of those who supply the labor which ministers to their sustenance. We are speaking of no selfish material right... ...fective there. I shall take the liberty of suggesting, through the several executive departments of the Government, for the consider- ation of your co... ...ter any locality which the President may from time to time designate by an executive order as a pro- hibitive area in which residence by an alien en- ... ...or to have violated or to be about to violate any of these regulations, by executive order, and shall not remove therefrom without permit, or shall de...

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...titution and the check upon hasty or in- considerate legislation, and upon executive action, and the supreme arbitrament of the courts, will be found ... ...reater unifor- mity of opinions.** In Connecticut, at this period, all the executive functionaries were elected, including the Gover- nor of the State... ...slators, and in the ex- ecution of them by the choice of the agents of the executive government; it may almost be said to govern itself, so feeble and... ...gistrates, directs them in everything that exceeds the simple and ordinary executive business of the State.* *The same rules are not applicable to the... ...ch impels the legislator to centralize the legislative and to disperse the executive power. The township of New England has in itself an indestructibl... ... a criminal is an unhappy being who is struggling for his life against the ministers of justice, whilst the population is merely a spectator of the co... ...France the Depu- ties can only employ this mode of prosecution against the ministers of the Crown. In both countries the Upper House may make use of a... ...resident does not possess. The King is represented in each assembly by his ministers, who explain his intentions, support his opinions, and maintain t... ...ions, and maintain the principles of the Government. The President and his ministers are alike excluded from Congress; so that his influ- ence and his...

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... any position of power; who was with- out the slightest experience of high executive duties, and who had only a speaking acquaintance with the men upo... ...y Seward, who, as Secretary of State, considered himself next to the Chief Executive, and who quickly accustomed himself to giving orders and making a... ... had re- lieved his care-burdened mind, and who then solemnly informed the executive council that he had vowed in his 48 The Writings of Abraham Linc... ...abilities, his services. Giving the fullest measure of credit to his great ministers,—to Seward for his conduct of foreign affairs, to Chase for the m... ...ys realizing his responsibility to God and the nation, decided every great executive ques- tion for himself. His absolute honesty had become pro- verb... ...f States then in rebellion to be thenceforward free, and declared that the executive, with the army and navy, would recognize and maintain their freed... ...sober judgment of courts, and the worse than savage mobs for the executive ministers of justice. This disposition is awfully fearful in any community;...

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...ster. He is the friend of the First Consul, and very intimate with all the ministers; he will protect you.” “Then you were holding the estate for him?... ...hem?” said Corentin, to Peyrade. “No one but the First Consul, Fouche, the ministers, the prefect of police, and Malin knew anything about it.” “We mu... ...ndictments were, however, submitted for signature to a commissioner of the executive power and to the verdict of eight jurymen, before whom he laid th... ... cards in the salon. Cambaceres and Lebrun were then at the mercy of their ministers, men who were infinitely stron- ger than they. “Nearly all these ... ...hat in which we see him at the present moment. He proved discreet, and the ministers were faithful to him; but they made him the pivot of the machine ... ... Consul. The campaign has opened with a victory at Montebello.’ “The three ministers exchanged looks. “‘Was it a general engagement?’ asked Carnot. “‘...

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...journeys revolved every six weeks on an average, to look a little into the executive details of the system. With some of these Mr. Palmer had no con- ... ...self with the mysterious. The connexion of the mail with the state and the executive government—a connexion obvi- ous, but yet not strictly defined—ga... ... travelling, iron tubes and boilers have disconnected man’s heart from the ministers of his locomotion. Nile nor T rafalgar has power to raise an extr... ...y of the Thames is measured by the destiny of the popu- lation to which it ministers, by the commerce which it sup- ports, by the grandeur of the empi...

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...journeys revolved every six weeks on an average, to look a little into the executive details of the system. With some of these Mr. Palmer had no conce... ...minate and mysterious. The connec- tion of the mail with the state and the executive govern- ment—a connection obvious, but yet not strictly defined— ... ... travelling, iron tubes and boilers have disconnected man’s heart from the ministers of his locomotion. Nile nor Trafalgar has power any more to raise... ...y of the Thames is mea- sured by the density of the population to which it ministers, by the commerce which it supports, by the grandeur of the empire... ...nesalutantes.”—There can be no doubt that the levees of modern princes and ministers have been inherited from this ancient usage of Rome; one which be...

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... do so; but George III., who was a party to the negotia- tion, and all his ministers, would have said, with fits of laugh- 89 Thomas de Quincey ter—‘... ..., is mere mid- summer madness. ‘Hold your absurd tongue,’ would any of the ministers have said to a friend descanting on Junius as a powerful artist o... ...ws what amount of mischief he may do to self and partners?’ The rumor that ministers were themselves alarmed (which was the naked truth) travelled dow... ...eality it is impossible that these should be the best; for even if, in the executive part, they were so, which is not the case, the very nature of the... ...ation of the maxim; i.e. by lodging the responsibil- ity exactly where the executive power [ergo the power of re- sisting this responsibility] was lod... ..., and might have raised many more; and it was confessed by all the Foreign Ministers that no king in Christendom could have made and completed such a ... ... his own execution. He con- stantly maintained the irresponsibility of his ministers: but, if that were conceded, it would then follow that the king m...

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...orps of gentlemen who were to aid me in my weighty responsibility as chief executive officer of the Custom House. I doubt greatly—or, rather, I do not... ...he gover nor, and several of his counsellors, a judge, a general, and the ministers of the town, all of whom sat or stood in a bal cony of the meeti... ...hy secret from the prying multitude. Thou mayest conceal it, too, from the ministers and magistrates, even as thou didst this day, when they sought to... ...e? These questions were solemnly propounded to Mr. Dimmesdale by the elder ministers of Boston, and the deacons of his church, who, to use their own p... ...nally was in me, all of God’s gifts that were the choicest have become the ministers of spiritual torment. Hester, I am most miserable!” “The people r... ...d Mr. Dimmesdale turned to the dignified and venerable rulers; to the holy ministers, who were his brethren; to the people, whose great heart was thor...

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...s of literature more conspicuously by the pomps with which it invested the ministers and machinery of education, than any entire university of the con... ... apostolatum meum is a language almost as becoming to the missionaries and ministers of knowledge, as to the ambassa- dors of religion. It is fit that... ...nturies) to her old ancestral honors, and kept up that decent household of ministers which corre- sponded to the altered ministrations of her temple. ... ...a suitor of unexampled munificence, was privileged, especially because the ministers of the Delphic temple had doubtless found it easy to extract the ... ... Delphi, besides the Pythia and priests, with their train of subordi- nate ministers directly billeted on the temple, there were two orders of men out... ...people of Greece. Under these circumstances, both the deliberative and the executive bodies of the Grecian gov- ernment, assembling separately, have c... ... to us our valued English connection. Farewell! “The Vice-president of the Executive, “ATHANASIUS KANAKARES. 201 Thomas de Quincey “The Chief-Secreta...

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...istrict of Fougeres, from which it was due un- der the levy ordered by the executive Directory of the Re- public on the preceding 10th Messidor. The g... ...ir. The military commanders of the West understood then the silence of the ministers. Nevertheless, they were only the more impatient to be released f... ... all eyes. The commandant, petrified, returned the paper, countersigned by ministers, which enjoined all authorities to obey the orders of this myster... ...mes. I will never distrust the king, but I do distrust those cormorants of ministers and courtiers, who tingle his ears with talk about the public wel... ... I soil my uniform with any of your tricks.” “Commandant, the order of the ministers states that you are to obey Mademoiselle de Verneuil.” “Let her c...

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... to obtain her father’s pardon. Notwithstanding the consolations which the ministers of religion, touched by her repentance, freely gave her, she crie... ...ke. See me for what I am. The bounty of the king and the protection of his ministers give me sufficient means of living. I have the outward bearing of... ...d.” “I am listening, monsieur,” said the poet; “my time is pre- cious,—the ministers are expecting me.” “Monsieur,” said Dumay, “I shall be brief. You... ...in- vented no system, as did Galen, Broussais, and Rasori. He is merely an executive genius, like Moscheles on the piano, Paganini on the violin, or F... ...must have smiled after draw- ing out the characters of his three principal ministers, for the benefit of a foreign ambassador, by means of three answe...

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...d for ever had it not been for that accursed Piedmontese race of kings and ministers. When sometimes a frying-pan caught fire during a deli- cate oper... ... the fatal day of Aspromonte, when the treachery of kings, em- perors, and ministers had been revealed to the world in the wounding and imprisonment o... ... “tear and fling into the faces” of presidents, members of judicature, and ministers of State. And this desire persisted, though the names of these pe... ...ll, black-whiskered, and discreet. It was known that he had easy access to ministers, and that the numerous Costaguana gen- erals were always anxious ... ...s of liberty by the craft of that ac- cursed Piedmontese race of kings and ministers.” Mrs. Gould smiled slightly, and, bending over a little, began t... ...to the genuine impulses of his own nature. To be suddenly selected for the executive member of the patriotic small-arms com- mittee of Sulaco seemed t... ... “dear countrymen” were capable. “It’s like a tile falling on my head. I—I—executive member! It’s the first I hear of it! What do I know of military r...

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...gs. Let the lad go with you in welcome; he is used to keeping company with ministers, and talking of such matters; so is old John, who was christianiz... ...y sarmon that Parson Grant gave us to-night,” said Remarkable. “The church ministers be com- monly smart sarmonizers, but they write down their idees,... ... are as tonguey speakers, for an off-hand discourse, as the standing-order ministers.” “And what denomination do you distinguish as the stand- ing-ord... ...where there is anything to do?” “You have hit it, Cousin Dickon; it is the executive office of the county; at least so said my father when he gave me ... ... Surely, if anything will please Dickon,’ he said, ‘it will be to fill the executive chair of the county.’” “Executive chair! what nonsense!” cried th... ... daughter fears nothing, sir, more especially when escorted by the highest executive officer in the county.” 169 James Fenimore Cooper She took his a... ...ready. I have heard it all very rationally explained by your cousin—” “The executive chief! he can explain anything. His ingenu- ity will one day disc... ...ety, it becomes doubly necessary 337 James Fenimore Cooper to protect the ministers of the law. If you believe the wit- nesses, in their construction...

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...t of his den and be human. If Will were as literate as Guy, or Guy were as executive as Will, I think I could endure even Gopher Prairie. “It’s so har... ...t some of the poets have been as much an inspiration as a good many of the ministers, and so we shall be glad to hear—” The poor lady smiled neuralgic... ...ng in the provinces. You’ll find it epidemic among lawyers and doctors and ministers and college-bred mer- chants—all these people who have had a glim... ...e and learned that since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try t... ...nita kissed her and in the exuberant manner of a new star presented to the executive committee her theory, “What we want in a play is humor and pep. T... ...e condensed university’s seven-day course: Nine lecturers, four of them ex-ministers, and one an ex-congressman, all of them delivering “inspirational... ...ef hash; that the word “dude” is no longer frequently used; that there are Ministers of the Gospel who accept evolution; that some persons of ap- pare... ...em from the train vestibule—big, immaculate, overjawed, with the eye of an executive. In the voice of the professional Good Fel- low he bellowed, “How... ...hen she most tried to stand out against him; he was so much the successful executive that she did not want him to despise her. His manner of sneering ...

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...n limit, practising medical men, legislators, must be Samurai, and all the executive committees and so forth, that play so large a part in our affairs... ...detached from the general persuasion, just as obstructed and embar- rassed ministers of State can best serve their country at times by resigning offic...

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...d to set them for a week in a pattern which must catch the eyes of Cabinet Ministers, and the eyes once caught, the old arguments were to be deliv- er... ... Ralph. To him, she supposed, Mary Datchet, composing leaflets for Cabinet Ministers among her typewriters, represented all that was interesting and g... ...ich respectable elderly people, going to their clubs and din- ing out with ministers, think and behave. She had more than once played the part of amba... ...omen. Mrs. Seal was in a condition bordering upon frenzy. The duplicity of Ministers, the treachery of mankind, the insult to womanhood, the setback t... ...most striking heads of the dis- course; and how any combination of Cabinet Ministers could resist such discourse she really did not know. She could ha... ... may be out of town,” Ralph replied, with equal dis- tance of manner. “Our executive meets every week, of course,” she ob- served. “But some of our me...

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...hen, moreover, will the novelist’s Art, now nei- ther blushless infant nor executive man, have attained its majority. We can then be veraciously histo... ...m, it was merely a hand, cut off from the wrist; and he had performed that executive part! A wiser man would now have been the lord of it … . So he fe... ...ans. If he flourishes his thousands! The wonder is, he doesn’t corrupt the Ministers’ wives. Perhaps he does. Marriage will become a danger-sign to Pa...