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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... resolution , embracing ninety - nine printed lines across common writing paper , and yet more than one half of his opening speech has been made upon subjects about which there is not one word said in his resolution . Though his resolution ...
... resolution , embracing ninety - nine printed lines across common writing paper , and yet more than one half of his opening speech has been made upon subjects about which there is not one word said in his resolution . Though his resolution ...
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... resolution proposes ; and if he does , his neglect to mention it , shows him to be too uncandid to merit the respect ... resolution , there is nothing that merits attention - I therefore drop the particular examination of it . By a ...
... resolution proposes ; and if he does , his neglect to mention it , shows him to be too uncandid to merit the respect ... resolution , there is nothing that merits attention - I therefore drop the particular examination of it . By a ...
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... resolution proposes . Why , sir , the gentleman from Coles , the mover of this resolution , very lately denied on this floor , that the Legislature had any right to repeal , or otherwise meddle with its own acts , when those acts were ...
... resolution proposes . Why , sir , the gentleman from Coles , the mover of this resolution , very lately denied on this floor , that the Legislature had any right to repeal , or otherwise meddle with its own acts , when those acts were ...
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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