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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... framed the original Constitution ; and hence it is not recorded that the " thirty - nine , " or any of them , while engaged on that instrument , expressed any opinion of that precise question . In 1789 , by the first Congress which sat ...
... framed the original Constitution ; and hence it is not recorded that the " thirty - nine , " or any of them , while engaged on that instrument , expressed any opinion of that precise question . In 1789 , by the first Congress which sat ...
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... framed the original Con- stitution ; and , for the same reason , I have also omitted whatever understanding may have been manifested by any of the " thirty - nine " even , on any other phase of the general question of slavery . If we ...
... framed the original Con- stitution ; and , for the same reason , I have also omitted whatever understanding may have been manifested by any of the " thirty - nine " even , on any other phase of the general question of slavery . If we ...
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... framed the Government under which we live ; " while you with one accord reject , and scout , and spit upon that old policy , and insist upon substituting something new . True , you disagree among yourselves as to what that substitute ...
... framed the Government under which we live ; " while you with one accord reject , and scout , and spit upon that old policy , and insist upon substituting something new . True , you disagree among yourselves as to what that substitute ...
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