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 80
... become tired of , and disgusted with , a Government that offers them no protection ; and are not much averse to a change in which they imagine they have nothing to lose . Thus , then , by the operation of this mobocratic spirit , which ...
... become tired of , and disgusted with , a Government that offers them no protection ; and are not much averse to a change in which they imagine they have nothing to lose . Thus , then , by the operation of this mobocratic spirit , which ...
Page 392
... become all one thing or all the other . Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the spread of it , and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction , or its advocates will ...
... become all one thing or all the other . Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the spread of it , and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction , or its advocates will ...
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... become a sub- stantial branch of national though private , property . For ob- vious reasons , the more nearly this property can be distributed among all the people the better . To favor such general distribu- tion , greater inducements ...
... become a sub- stantial branch of national though private , property . For ob- vious reasons , the more nearly this property can be distributed among all the people the better . To favor such general distribu- tion , greater inducements ...
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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