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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... adoption of the first State constitution the whole number of them was - what do you think ? just 117- while the ... adopted its system of emancipation . If Nebraska Bill is the real author of these benevolent works , it is rather ...
... adoption of the first State constitution the whole number of them was - what do you think ? just 117- while the ... adopted its system of emancipation . If Nebraska Bill is the real author of these benevolent works , it is rather ...
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... adopted the Compromise measures of 1850 as the basis of Demo- cratic action . Thus you see that up to 1853 - '54 , the Whig party and the Democratic party both stood on the same platform with regard to the slavery question . That ...
... adopted the Compromise measures of 1850 as the basis of Demo- cratic action . Thus you see that up to 1853 - '54 , the Whig party and the Democratic party both stood on the same platform with regard to the slavery question . That ...
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... adopt emancipation , before this plan shall have been acted is hereby earnestly renewed . Such would be only an advance ... adopted , would shorten the war , and thus lessen its expenditure of money and of blood ? Is it doubted that it ...
... adopt emancipation , before this plan shall have been acted is hereby earnestly renewed . Such would be only an advance ... adopted , would shorten the war , and thus lessen its expenditure of money and of blood ? Is it doubted that it ...
Contents
Speech in the United States House | 27 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
Letter to Colonel Robert Allen June 21 1836 | 59 |
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