Why We Love LincolnOuting Publishing Company, 1909 - 168 pages |
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Page 79
... negro emancipa- tion . That thought came years afterwards , when , in the agony of fratricidal strife , he proclaimed the freedom of the blacks as a war measure . However , when the Supreme Court of the United States in 1857 decided in ...
... negro emancipa- tion . That thought came years afterwards , when , in the agony of fratricidal strife , he proclaimed the freedom of the blacks as a war measure . However , when the Supreme Court of the United States in 1857 decided in ...
Page 83
... negro the equal of the white man . " But in the right to eat the bread which his own hands earns , " he added , " he is my equal , and the equal of Judge Doug- las , and the equal of every living man . وو Nothing in the whole story of ...
... negro the equal of the white man . " But in the right to eat the bread which his own hands earns , " he added , " he is my equal , and the equal of Judge Doug- las , and the equal of every living man . وو Nothing in the whole story of ...
Page 119
... negro that he waged war upon slavery , but for the sake of justice and humanity , and to save the nation from increasing degradation and demorali- zation . True , he had challenged the South when he said , " a house divided against ...
... negro that he waged war upon slavery , but for the sake of justice and humanity , and to save the nation from increasing degradation and demorali- zation . True , he had challenged the South when he said , " a house divided against ...
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