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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... thing from your position ; yet I do not expect you to do any thing which may be wrong in your own judgment ; nor would I have you do anything personally injurious to yourself . You are , and always have been , honestly , and sincerely a ...
... thing from your position ; yet I do not expect you to do any thing which may be wrong in your own judgment ; nor would I have you do anything personally injurious to yourself . You are , and always have been , honestly , and sincerely a ...
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... thing other than that general class of things that does concern the whole . I have said that at all times . I have said , as illustrations , that I do not believe in the right of Illinois to interfere with the cranberry laws of Indiana ...
... thing other than that general class of things that does concern the whole . I have said that at all times . I have said , as illustrations , that I do not believe in the right of Illinois to interfere with the cranberry laws of Indiana ...
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... thing , or all the other . Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it , and place it where ... thing , and I assure you I thought of no such thing . If I had said " I believe this government can not last always ...
... thing , or all the other . Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it , and place it where ... thing , and I assure you I thought of no such thing . If I had said " I believe this government can not last always ...
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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