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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... Nebraska Bill sentiments , and in fact one of them delivered at Springfield on October 4 being the same speech later delivered at Peoria . On one occasion at Bloomington when Stephen A. Douglas was the principal Democratic speaker and ...
... Nebraska Bill sentiments , and in fact one of them delivered at Springfield on October 4 being the same speech later delivered at Peoria . On one occasion at Bloomington when Stephen A. Douglas was the principal Democratic speaker and ...
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... Nebraska bill , he says , expelled slavery from Illinois . The principle of that bill first planted it here — that is , it first came , because there was no law to prevent it — first came before we owned the country ; and finding it ...
... Nebraska bill , he says , expelled slavery from Illinois . The principle of that bill first planted it here — that is , it first came , because there was no law to prevent it — first came before we owned the country ; and finding it ...
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... Nebraska bill was passing through congress , a law case , involving the question of a negro's freedom , by reason of his owner having voluntarily taken him first into a free State and then a territory covered by the congressional ...
... Nebraska bill was passing through congress , a law case , involving the question of a negro's freedom , by reason of his owner having voluntarily taken him first into a free State and then a territory covered by the congressional ...
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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