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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... answer the interrogatories I proposed , as before men- tioned , or some other similar ones . Let him answer fully , fairly , and candidly . Let him answer with facts , and not with arguments . Let him remember he sits where Washington ...
... answer the interrogatories I proposed , as before men- tioned , or some other similar ones . Let him answer fully , fairly , and candidly . Let him answer with facts , and not with arguments . Let him remember he sits where Washington ...
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... answer whether he stands pledged to - day , as he did in 1854 , against the admis- sion of any more Slave States into the Union , even if the people want them . I want to know whether he stands pledged against the admission of a new ...
... answer whether he stands pledged to - day , as he did in 1854 , against the admis- sion of any more Slave States into the Union , even if the people want them . I want to know whether he stands pledged against the admission of a new ...
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... answer . How does he answer ? Why , that he was not on the committee that wrote the resolutions . I then repeated the next proposition contained in the resolutions , which was to restrict slavery in those States in which it exists , and ...
... answer . How does he answer ? Why , that he was not on the committee that wrote the resolutions . I then repeated the next proposition contained in the resolutions , which was to restrict slavery in those States in which it exists , and ...
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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