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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... rebellion against the United States , shall be then , thenceforward and forever free ; and the Executive Government of the United States , including the military and naval authority thereof , will recognize and maintain the freedom of ...
... rebellion against the United States , shall be then , thenceforward and forever free ; and the Executive Government of the United States , including the military and naval authority thereof , will recognize and maintain the freedom of ...
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... rebellion , if we except a certain occur- rence at New Orleans hereafter to be mentioned ; nor does any one question that they will stand the same test much longer after the rebellion closes . But these provisions of the Constitution ...
... rebellion , if we except a certain occur- rence at New Orleans hereafter to be mentioned ; nor does any one question that they will stand the same test much longer after the rebellion closes . But these provisions of the Constitution ...
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... rebellion or invasion , the public safety requires them , which would not be constitutional when , in absence of rebel- lion or invasion , the public safety does not require them : in other words , that the Constitution is not in its ...
... rebellion or invasion , the public safety requires them , which would not be constitutional when , in absence of rebel- lion or invasion , the public safety does not require them : in other words , that the Constitution is not in its ...
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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