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 522
... federal authority , or anything in the Consti- tution they had made themselves , and sworn to support , forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in the federal territories . Thus the twenty - one acted ; and , as actions ...
... federal authority , or anything in the Consti- tution they had made themselves , and sworn to support , forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in the federal territories . Thus the twenty - one acted ; and , as actions ...
Page 523
... federal authority , nor any part of the Constitution , forbade the Federal Government to control slavery in the federal terri- tories ; while all the rest probably had the same understanding . Such , unquestionably , was the ...
... federal authority , nor any part of the Constitution , forbade the Federal Government to control slavery in the federal terri- tories ; while all the rest probably had the same understanding . Such , unquestionably , was the ...
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... Federal Government to control as to slavery in the federal territories . I go a step further . I defy any one to show that any living man in the whole world ever did , prior to the begin- ning of the present century , ( and I might ...
... Federal Government to control as to slavery in the federal territories . I go a step further . I defy any one to show that any living man in the whole world ever did , prior to the begin- ning of the present century , ( and I might ...
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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