Abraham Lincoln Goes to New YorkStory of the country lawyer's first trip to sophisticated New York, and full text of famous Cooper Union speech he delivered there February 27, 1860. |
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... federal authority , nor anything in the Constitution , forbade the Federal Government , to control as to slavery in federal territory . No great while after the adoption of the original Con- stitution , North Carolina ceded to the Federal ...
... federal authority , nor anything in the Constitution , forbade the Federal Government , to control as to slavery in federal territory . No great while after the adoption of the original Con- stitution , North Carolina ceded to the Federal ...
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... Federal Government to control as to slavery in the federal territories . Thus the twenty - one acted ; and , as actions speak louder than words , so actions , under such responsibility , speak still louder . Two of the twenty - three ...
... Federal Government to control as to slavery in the federal territories . Thus the twenty - one acted ; and , as actions speak louder than words , so actions , under such responsibility , speak still louder . Two of the twenty - three ...
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... Federal Government to control as to slavery in the federal territories , he is right to say so . But he should , at the same time , brave the responsibility of declaring that , in his opinion , he understands their principles better ...
... Federal Government to control as to slavery in the federal territories , he is right to say so . But he should , at the same time , brave the responsibility of declaring that , in his opinion , he understands their principles better ...
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