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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... Union . The sophism itself is , that any State of the Union may , consistently with the national Constitution , and there- fore lawfully and peacefully , withdraw from the Union without the consent of the Union or of any other State ...
... Union . The sophism itself is , that any State of the Union may , consistently with the national Constitution , and there- fore lawfully and peacefully , withdraw from the Union without the consent of the Union or of any other State ...
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... Union and none to the enemy ; and her people , at a regular election , have sustained the Union , by a larger majority , and a larger aggregate vote than they ever before gave to to any candidate , or any question . Kentucky , too , for ...
... Union and none to the enemy ; and her people , at a regular election , have sustained the Union , by a larger majority , and a larger aggregate vote than they ever before gave to to any candidate , or any question . Kentucky , too , for ...
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... Union ; and that the sole object of the government , civil and military , in regard to those States is to again get them into that proper practical relation . I believe it is not only possible , but in fact , easier to do this , with ...
... Union ; and that the sole object of the government , civil and military , in regard to those States is to again get them into that proper practical relation . I believe it is not only possible , but in fact , easier to do this , with ...
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Speech in the United States House | 27 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
Letter to Colonel Robert Allen June 21 1836 | 59 |
Copyright | |
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