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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... labor something about which he knew well from his own experience and felt deeply from his own nature . The passages on labor are perhaps the most significant utter- ances made on that subject by any important political figure of the era ...
... labor something about which he knew well from his own experience and felt deeply from his own nature . The passages on labor are perhaps the most significant utter- ances made on that subject by any important political figure of the era ...
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... labor with capital —that is , labor with their own hands , and also buy slaves or hire freemen to labor for them ; but this is only a mixed , and not a distinct , class . No principle stated is disturbed by the existence of this mixed ...
... labor with capital —that is , labor with their own hands , and also buy slaves or hire freemen to labor for them ; but this is only a mixed , and not a distinct , class . No principle stated is disturbed by the existence of this mixed ...
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... labor , in the structure of govern- ment . It is assumed that labor is available only in connexion with capital ; that nobody labors unless somebody else , owning capital , somehow by the use of it , induces him to labor . This assumed ...
... labor , in the structure of govern- ment . It is assumed that labor is available only in connexion with capital ; that nobody labors unless somebody else , owning capital , somehow by the use of it , induces him to labor . This assumed ...
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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