 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography - 1860 - 232 pages
...IN THE SENATORIAL CANVASS. (At the Republican Stale Convention, June 16, 1858.) Mr. Lincoln said— GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION :—If we could first...tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - History - 1860 - 250 pages
...which Convention Mr. Lincoln had been named as their candidate for US Senator.] MR. PRESIDENT, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: If we could first know...where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...commenced by enunciating, in the broadest manner — THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention : If we could first know...where we are, and whither we are tending, we could 'better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...had been named as their candidate for US Senator. Mr. Douglas was not present.] MR. PRESIDENT, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION : If we could first know...where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...had been named as their candidate for US Senator. Mr. Douglas was not present.] MR. PRESIDENT, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION : If we could first know...where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 292 pages
...and the latter answers : " That is a question for the Supreme Court." MR. PRESIDENT, AND GBNTLEUPK OF THE CONVENTION: If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how Co do it. We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...candidate for United States Senator. Mr. Douglas was not present.] MR. PRESIDENT, AND GENTLEMEN OP THE CONVENTION : If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 270 pages
...Mr. Liucoln had been named as their candidate for U. Ё. Senator.] MR. PRESIDENT, AND GBNTLEMKN OP THE CONVENTION: If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far Into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated... | |
 | Political parties - 1860 - 268 pages
...exclude Slavery from their limits ; and the latter answers : " That is a question for the Supreme Court." If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and bow to do it We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was Initiated... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 556 pages
...ME. LINCOLN. On that evening Mr. Lincoln said : Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention,—If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated... | |
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was as follows : — GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION, — If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how 
