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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... whole country has acquired its greatness , unless it were to be that thing for which the Union itself was made .... So long , then , as it is possible that the pros- perity and the liberties of the people can be preserved in the Union ...
... whole country has acquired its greatness , unless it were to be that thing for which the Union itself was made .... So long , then , as it is possible that the pros- perity and the liberties of the people can be preserved in the Union ...
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... whole is , that of our thirty - nine fathers who framed the original Constitution , twenty - one - a clear majority of the whole - certainly understood that no proper division of local from federal authority , nor any part of the ...
... whole is , that of our thirty - nine fathers who framed the original Constitution , twenty - one - a clear majority of the whole - certainly understood that no proper division of local from federal authority , nor any part of the ...
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... whole of this just now . Demanding what they do , and for the reason they do , they can voluntarily stop nowhere short of this consummation . Holding , as they do , that slavery is morally right , and socially elevating , they cannot ...
... whole of this just now . Demanding what they do , and for the reason they do , they can voluntarily stop nowhere short of this consummation . Holding , as they do , that slavery is morally right , and socially elevating , they cannot ...
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