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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... Popular Sovereignty ! everlasting Popular Sovereignty ! Let us for a mo- ment inquire into this vast matter of Popular Sovereignty . What is Popular Sovereignty ? We recollect that at an early period in the history of this struggle ...
... Popular Sovereignty ! everlasting Popular Sovereignty ! Let us for a mo- ment inquire into this vast matter of Popular Sovereignty . What is Popular Sovereignty ? We recollect that at an early period in the history of this struggle ...
Page 408
... popular sovereignty . The second and third are attacks upon my speech made on the 16th of June . Out of these three points - drawing within the range of popular sovereignty the question of the Lecompton Consti- tution — he makes his ...
... popular sovereignty . The second and third are attacks upon my speech made on the 16th of June . Out of these three points - drawing within the range of popular sovereignty the question of the Lecompton Consti- tution — he makes his ...
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... popular sovereignty , I wish to be understood as applying what I say to the question of slavery only , and not to other minor domestic matters of a territory or a State . Does Judge Douglas , when he says that several of the past years ...
... popular sovereignty , I wish to be understood as applying what I say to the question of slavery only , and not to other minor domestic matters of a territory or a State . Does Judge Douglas , when he says that several of the past years ...
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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