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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... purpose Lincoln could have had in asking it was to destroy forever any possibility of Douglas's effecting a rapprochement with Southern Democrats . Under the implications of Lincoln's figure , constantly pressed , Douglas was ...
... purpose Lincoln could have had in asking it was to destroy forever any possibility of Douglas's effecting a rapprochement with Southern Democrats . Under the implications of Lincoln's figure , constantly pressed , Douglas was ...
Page 414
... purpose and expectations that this canvass would be conducted upon principle , and with fairness on both sides ; and it shall not be my fault , if this purpose and expec- tation shall be given up . He charges , in substance , that I ...
... purpose and expectations that this canvass would be conducted upon principle , and with fairness on both sides ; and it shall not be my fault , if this purpose and expec- tation shall be given up . He charges , in substance , that I ...
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... purpose is something different from the purpose of either party ; and yet the human instrumentalities , working just as they do , are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose . I am almost ready to say that this is probably true ...
... purpose is something different from the purpose of either party ; and yet the human instrumentalities , working just as they do , are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose . I am almost ready to say that this is probably true ...
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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