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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Page 197
... whole of it , he would refund the whole , so that Bell should be the better able to pay his other debts . You are not losing on the Fry debt , because that is , or will be paid ; but your loss will be on the W. P. S. debt , —a debt ...
... whole of it , he would refund the whole , so that Bell should be the better able to pay his other debts . You are not losing on the Fry debt , because that is , or will be paid ; but your loss will be on the W. P. S. debt , —a debt ...
Page 236
... whole of legislation into his own hands , is what we object to — is what General Taylor objects to — and is what constitutes the broad dis- tinction between you and us . To thus transfer legislation is clearly to take it from those who ...
... whole of legislation into his own hands , is what we object to — is what General Taylor objects to — and is what constitutes the broad dis- tinction between you and us . To thus transfer legislation is clearly to take it from those who ...
Page 307
... whole chapter through . This principle , in the aggregate , gives the slave States in the present Congress , twenty additional representatives - being seven more than the whole majority by which they passed the Nebraska bill . Now all ...
... whole chapter through . This principle , in the aggregate , gives the slave States in the present Congress , twenty additional representatives - being seven more than the whole majority by which they passed the Nebraska bill . Now all ...
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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