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 389
... Judge Douglas should have fought several years of his life , and pledge himself to fight all the remaining years of his life for ? Can Judge Douglas find anybody on earth that said that anybody else should form a constitution for a ...
... Judge Douglas should have fought several years of his life , and pledge himself to fight all the remaining years of his life for ? Can Judge Douglas find anybody on earth that said that anybody else should form a constitution for a ...
Page 391
... Douglas . " Mr. Lincoln - Why yes , Douglas did it ! To be sure he did . Let us , however , put that proposition another way . The Re- publicans could not have done it without Judge Douglas . Could he have done it without them ? Which ...
... Douglas . " Mr. Lincoln - Why yes , Douglas did it ! To be sure he did . Let us , however , put that proposition another way . The Re- publicans could not have done it without Judge Douglas . Could he have done it without them ? Which ...
Page 441
... Judge Trumbull was to have the place of Judge Douglas . Now all I have to say upon that subject is that I think no man - not even Judge Douglas - can prove it , because it is not true . I have no doubt he is " conscientious " in saying ...
... Judge Trumbull was to have the place of Judge Douglas . Now all I have to say upon that subject is that I think no man - not even Judge Douglas - can prove it , because it is not true . I have no doubt he is " conscientious " in saying ...
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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