 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 str.
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 5, p. 329. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). The blood of this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to Heaven against him [ President James K. Polk] . Speech in United States House of Representatives: "The War with Mexico,"... | |
 | Philip Abbott - 1996 - 302 str.
...charged that unless President Polk could show the actual spot where Mexico invaded the United States, "the blood of this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to Heaven against him."'4 Lincoln hoped that the speech would provide the occasion to "distinguish" himself and vehemently... | |
 | Kathy Sammis - 1997 - 132 str.
...for his justification. But if he cannot or will not do this then l shall be fully convinced of what l more than suspect already — that he is deeply conscious...in the wrong; that he feels the blood of this war ... is crying to heaven against him; that originally having some strong motive . . . to involve the... | |
 | A.R. Pete Diamond, Kathleen M. O'Connor, Louis Stulman - 1997 - 465 str.
...EXPOSING A BURIED SUBTEXT IN JEREMIAH AND LAMENTATIONS: GOING AFTER BAAL AND . . . ABEL Nancy C. Lee I more than suspect already that he is deeply conscious...the blood of Abel, is crying to heaven against him. Abraham Lincoln ... the blood of the innocent cries up from the ground ... the voices crushed in the... | |
 | Glenn M. Linden - 2001 - 280 str.
...can not, or will not do this — if on any pretence, or no pretence, he shall refuse or omit it, then I shall be fully convinced, of what I more than suspect...the blood of Abel, is crying to Heaven against him. . . . Again, it is a singular omission in this message, that it, nowhere intimates when the President... | |
 | John V. Denson - 2001 - 830 str.
...stand. He denounced the president of the United States, James K. Polk, for provoking the conflict: "The blood of this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to Heaven against him." Lincoln made no apologies for attacking the commander in chief, for throughout history rulers [Lincoln... | |
 | Elizabeth D. Samet - 2004 - 300 str.
...the first blood of American soldiers had been shed on domestic or foreign soil, Lincoln averred that "the blood of this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to Heaven." In contrast to a Weemsian Eden where the seeds of republican virtue were sown, Lincoln conjures a postlapsarian... | |
 | Ward McAfee - 2004 - 258 str.
...dispute. Having made his logical presentation, the freshman congressman then resorted to hyperbole: "The blood of this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to Heaven." He then added that President Polk's justification of the war was "like the half insane mumbling of... | |
 | Truth and Freedom - 2005 - 50 str.
...original occupiers and settlers. Lincoln would say, referring to President Polk, "I'm more than suspect. ..that he is deeply conscious of being in the wrong,...blood of Abel, is crying to heaven against him..." Polk, who began his presidency with a pledge to take California from Mexico by whatever means necessary,... | |
 | David Mayers - 2007 - 10 str.
...provocation. Lincoln later added (January 1848) that Polk had lied to bring about an avoidable war: "He feels the blood of this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to Heaven against him."39 Only unwillingness to see soldiers in the field injured made Lincoln vote repeatedly to stock... | |
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I shall be fully convinced of what I more than suspect already — that he is deeply conscious of being in the wrong ; that he feels the blood of this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to Heaven against him... 
