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 124
... Feeling , as you know I do , the deepest solicitude for the success of the enterprise you are engaged in , I ... feel very badly yet , is , because of three special causes , added to the general one which I shall mention . The ...
... Feeling , as you know I do , the deepest solicitude for the success of the enterprise you are engaged in , I ... feel very badly yet , is , because of three special causes , added to the general one which I shall mention . The ...
Page 127
... feel my own sorrows much more keenly than I do yours , when I know of them ; and yet I assure you I was not much hurt by what you wrote me of your excessively bad feel- ing at the time you wrote . Not that I am less capable of sym ...
... feel my own sorrows much more keenly than I do yours , when I know of them ; and yet I assure you I was not much hurt by what you wrote me of your excessively bad feel- ing at the time you wrote . Not that I am less capable of sym ...
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... feel more attached the one to the other , and more firmly bound to the country we inhabit . In every way we are ... feel that they are part of us , but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence , they find that ...
... feel more attached the one to the other , and more firmly bound to the country we inhabit . In every way we are ... feel that they are part of us , but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence , they find that ...
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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