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 96
... Sub - Treasury , according to the estimate of the Secretary of the Treasury , who is the warm advocate of the system and which estimate is the lowest made by any one , the same services are to cost $ 60,000 . Mr. Rives , who , to say ...
... Sub - Treasury , according to the estimate of the Secretary of the Treasury , who is the warm advocate of the system and which estimate is the lowest made by any one , the same services are to cost $ 60,000 . Mr. Rives , who , to say ...
Page 102
... Sub- Treasury would injuriously affect the currency , and would be more expensive and less secure as a depository of the public money than a National Bank . How far I have succeeded in estab- lishing their truth is for others to judge ...
... Sub- Treasury would injuriously affect the currency , and would be more expensive and less secure as a depository of the public money than a National Bank . How far I have succeeded in estab- lishing their truth is for others to judge ...
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... Sub - Treasury ; the Sub - Treasury is not indispensable because we can take the Bank . The rule is too absurd to need further comment . Upon the phrase " necessary and proper " in the Constitution , it seems to me more reasonable to ...
... Sub - Treasury ; the Sub - Treasury is not indispensable because we can take the Bank . The rule is too absurd to need further comment . Upon the phrase " necessary and proper " in the Constitution , it seems to me more reasonable to ...
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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