The Living Lincoln: The Man, His Mind, His Times, and the War He Fought, Reconstructed from His Own Writings |
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Page 272
... wrong in slavery . Everything that ema- nates from him or his coadjutors in their course of policy , carefully excludes the thought that there is anything wrong in slavery . All their arguments , if you will consider them , will be seen ...
... wrong in slavery . Everything that ema- nates from him or his coadjutors in their course of policy , carefully excludes the thought that there is anything wrong in slavery . All their arguments , if you will consider them , will be seen ...
Page 276
... wrong . He has the high distinction , so far as I know , of never having said slavery is either right or wrong . [ Laughter . ] Almost everybody else says one or the other , but the Judge never does . If there be a man in the Democratic ...
... wrong . He has the high distinction , so far as I know , of never having said slavery is either right or wrong . [ Laughter . ] Almost everybody else says one or the other , but the Judge never does . If there be a man in the Democratic ...
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... wrong as to disregard its actual presence among us and the difficulty of getting rid of it suddenly in a satisfactory way , and to disregard the constitutional obliga- tions thrown about it , that man is misplaced if he is on our plat ...
... wrong as to disregard its actual presence among us and the difficulty of getting rid of it suddenly in a satisfactory way , and to disregard the constitutional obliga- tions thrown about it , that man is misplaced if he is on our plat ...
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