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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... reason . Passion has helped us ; but can do so no more . It will in future be our enemy . Reason , cold , calculat- ing , unimpassioned reason , must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence . - Let those materials ...
... reason . Passion has helped us ; but can do so no more . It will in future be our enemy . Reason , cold , calculat- ing , unimpassioned reason , must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence . - Let those materials ...
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... reason to expect it ? If it was for that , why did not the same reason make you court Ann Todd , and at least twenty others of whom you can think , to whom it would apply with greater force than to her ? Did you court her for her wealth ...
... reason to expect it ? If it was for that , why did not the same reason make you court Ann Todd , and at least twenty others of whom you can think , to whom it would apply with greater force than to her ? Did you court her for her wealth ...
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... reason for doing so . They know what that reason was . It looks to us , since we have seen the Dred Scott decision pronounced , holding that , " under the Constitution , " the people cannot exclude slavery , —I say it looks to outsiders ...
... reason for doing so . They know what that reason was . It looks to us , since we have seen the Dred Scott decision pronounced , holding that , " under the Constitution , " the people cannot exclude slavery , —I say it looks to outsiders ...
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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