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 148
... give me the benefit of being known by the world , and give the world the advantage of knowing what's going on in the Lost Townships , and give your paper respectability besides . So here comes another . - Yesterday afternoon I hurried ...
... give me the benefit of being known by the world , and give the world the advantage of knowing what's going on in the Lost Townships , and give your paper respectability besides . So here comes another . - Yesterday afternoon I hurried ...
Page 251
... give you money for it . Let father and your boys take charge of things at home - prepare for a crop , and make the crop ; and you go to work for the best money wages , or in dis- charge of any debt you owe , that you can get . And to ...
... give you money for it . Let father and your boys take charge of things at home - prepare for a crop , and make the crop ; and you go to work for the best money wages , or in dis- charge of any debt you owe , that you can get . And to ...
Page 405
... give us . We know that it could not , if fairly made , fail to give the Republican party from six to ten more members of the Legislature than they can probably get as the law now stands . It so happened at the last session of the ...
... give us . We know that it could not , if fairly made , fail to give the Republican party from six to ten more members of the Legislature than they can probably get as the law now stands . It so happened at the last session of the ...
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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