Abraham LincolnThis volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces- the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican State Convention Speech and the Emancipation Proclamation - but hundreds of lesser-known ones, including excerpts from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, letters to Grant, McClellan, Stanton and his wife, and various meditations, verses and fragments. |
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Page 65
... Bank ? Are they to be clothed with power to send for persons and papers , for this object ? And after they have found the bank to be unconstitutional , and decided it so , how are they to enforce their decision ? What will their ...
... Bank ? Are they to be clothed with power to send for persons and papers , for this object ? And after they have found the bank to be unconstitutional , and decided it so , how are they to enforce their decision ? What will their ...
Page 98
... Bank in this country , and we shall there see , that those Banks performed the fiscal operations of the Govern- ment ... Bank , than in the hands of individuals , as proposed in the Sub - Treasury , is to say , that Bank directors ...
... Bank in this country , and we shall there see , that those Banks performed the fiscal operations of the Govern- ment ... Bank , than in the hands of individuals , as proposed in the Sub - Treasury , is to say , that Bank directors ...
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... Bank as a fiscal agent , we must show an indispensable necessity for it , will exclude every sort of fiscal agent that the mind of man can conceive . A Bank is not indispensable , because we can take the Sub - Treasury ; the Sub ...
... Bank as a fiscal agent , we must show an indispensable necessity for it , will exclude every sort of fiscal agent that the mind of man can conceive . A Bank is not indispensable , because we can take the Sub - Treasury ; the Sub ...
Contents
Speech in the United States House | 27 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
Letter to Colonel Robert Allen June 21 1836 | 59 |
Copyright | |
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