Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time, Volume 2Jennings & Pye, 1901 - United States |
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... River to Emigration- Making and Unmaking of Governors - Navigation of the Mis- souri- " Jim Totem . " . Railroad Cook CHAPTER XXVII . Building - Lane- " Emigrant Aid Society " -Colonel 11 Border Bands under Name of Kansas Militia dis ...
... River to Emigration- Making and Unmaking of Governors - Navigation of the Mis- souri- " Jim Totem . " . Railroad Cook CHAPTER XXVII . Building - Lane- " Emigrant Aid Society " -Colonel 11 Border Bands under Name of Kansas Militia dis ...
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... River , were fertile and productive far beyond any report ever made concerning them . They had annual production of plants , roots , and grasses that supported buffalo , elk , deer , and numberless other animals , as well as birds by ...
... River , were fertile and productive far beyond any report ever made concerning them . They had annual production of plants , roots , and grasses that supported buffalo , elk , deer , and numberless other animals , as well as birds by ...
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... rivers , and entire control of all the traffic and commerce on the Missouri River . The order went forth , and was obeyed , that no free State emigration was to be permitted through the State by land or up the river . Although railroads ...
... rivers , and entire control of all the traffic and commerce on the Missouri River . The order went forth , and was obeyed , that no free State emigration was to be permitted through the State by land or up the river . Although railroads ...
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... River . Indeed , they did not know that they had started a new era and lasting benefit to commerce when they shut off " Yankee emigration " and travel on that river ; for , though it is true that the " Yankees " were ' cute and knew a ...
... River . Indeed , they did not know that they had started a new era and lasting benefit to commerce when they shut off " Yankee emigration " and travel on that river ; for , though it is true that the " Yankees " were ' cute and knew a ...
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... river to Lexington , about seventy miles , on a race with the boat . The steamboat turned the bend in an hour , and was out of sight , with the oxen only three miles on the way , when there were cheers for the swift boat , and the poor ...
... river to Lexington , about seventy miles , on a race with the boat . The steamboat turned the bend in an hour , and was out of sight , with the oxen only three miles on the way , when there were cheers for the swift boat , and the poor ...
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Page 214 - That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself....
Page 233 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State Constitution?
Page 519 - Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Page 645 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Page 199 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to and conducted by its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through,...
Page 278 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union ;' and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!
Page 515 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. "I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 508 - I can say in return, sir, that all the political sentiments I entertain have been drawn, so far as I have been able to draw them, from the sentiments which originated in and were given to the world from this hall. I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Page 632 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 278 - It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great Confederacy shall be at peace, and in harmony one with another. Let us Republicans do our part to have it so. Even though much provoked, let us do nothing through passion and ill temper. Even though the Southern people will not so much as listen to us, let us calmly consider their demands, and yield to them if, in our deliberate view of our duty, we possibly can.