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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... claim . But suppose she had always claimed it . Has not Mexico always claimed the contrary ? So that there is but claim against claim , leaving nothing proved until we get back of the claims , and find which has the better foundation ...
... claim . But suppose she had always claimed it . Has not Mexico always claimed the contrary ? So that there is but claim against claim , leaving nothing proved until we get back of the claims , and find which has the better foundation ...
Page 206
... claim ; and what I have already said about claims is strictly applicable to this . If I should claim your land by word of mouth , that certainly would not make it mine ; and if I were to claim it by a deed which I had made myself ...
... claim ; and what I have already said about claims is strictly applicable to this . If I should claim your land by word of mouth , that certainly would not make it mine ; and if I were to claim it by a deed which I had made myself ...
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... claim has been satisfactorily paid and dis- charged . Mutual payments have been made of the claims awarded by the late joint commission for the settlement of claims between the United States and Peru . An earnest and cordial friendship ...
... claim has been satisfactorily paid and dis- charged . Mutual payments have been made of the claims awarded by the late joint commission for the settlement of claims between the United States and Peru . An earnest and cordial friendship ...
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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