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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... object to the NEW position which the avowed principle of this Nebraska law gives to slavery in the body politic . I object to it because it assumes that there can be MORAL RIGHT in the enslaving of one man by another . I object to it as ...
... object to the NEW position which the avowed principle of this Nebraska law gives to slavery in the body politic . I object to it because it assumes that there can be MORAL RIGHT in the enslaving of one man by another . I object to it as ...
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... object to hurry any of you , in hot haste , to a step which you would never take deliberately , that object will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it . Such of you as are now dissatisfied , still ...
... object to hurry any of you , in hot haste , to a step which you would never take deliberately , that object will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it . Such of you as are now dissatisfied , still ...
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... object that lie at the bottom of all these are most worthy ; for , say what you will , after all , the most is due ... object , a worthy object , and the war will end when that object is attained . Under God , I hope it never will ...
... object that lie at the bottom of all these are most worthy ; for , say what you will , after all , the most is due ... object , a worthy object , and the war will end when that object is attained . Under God , I hope it never will ...
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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