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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... vote affirms that the war was unnecessarily and unconstitutionally commenced by the Presi- dent ; and I will stake my life that if you had been in my place you would have voted just as I did . Would you have voted what you felt and knew ...
... vote affirms that the war was unnecessarily and unconstitutionally commenced by the Presi- dent ; and I will stake my life that if you had been in my place you would have voted just as I did . Would you have voted what you felt and knew ...
Page 310
... vote of the people ? or a vote of the legislature ? or , indeed , by a vote of any sort ? To these questions , the law gives no answer . There is a mystery about this ; for when a member proposed to give the legislature express ...
... vote of the people ? or a vote of the legislature ? or , indeed , by a vote of any sort ? To these questions , the law gives no answer . There is a mystery about this ; for when a member proposed to give the legislature express ...
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... vote , I well remember how astounded and mortified I was . This very bill , voted against by Henry , passed into a law , and made the ap- propriations for the year ending June 30. 1848 - extending a full month beyond the actual and ...
... vote , I well remember how astounded and mortified I was . This very bill , voted against by Henry , passed into a law , and made the ap- propriations for the year ending June 30. 1848 - extending a full month beyond the actual and ...
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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