Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time, Volume 2Jennings & Pye, 1901 - United States |
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... Talk with Judge Douglas and Statement of his Perplexities - His Trip through the South - His Removal from Position as Chairman of Com- mittee on Territories - Angry Senatorial Debates - Douglas's Defiance of Slave - leaders - Lincoln at ...
... Talk with Judge Douglas and Statement of his Perplexities - His Trip through the South - His Removal from Position as Chairman of Com- mittee on Territories - Angry Senatorial Debates - Douglas's Defiance of Slave - leaders - Lincoln at ...
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... talk about carrying much commerce on it , as it runs so low and is frozen up for so many months that there can be no certainty about such business . What is it good for , anyway ? " " Well , well , " replied Ben , " good fur , sure ...
... talk about carrying much commerce on it , as it runs so low and is frozen up for so many months that there can be no certainty about such business . What is it good for , anyway ? " " Well , well , " replied Ben , " good fur , sure ...
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... " Any man who could settle twenty men down peacefully in two hours ' running talk , who had been jawing each other all at once all the forenoon , could make a political party if any man could . " Another of them said : 63.
... " Any man who could settle twenty men down peacefully in two hours ' running talk , who had been jawing each other all at once all the forenoon , could make a political party if any man could . " Another of them said : 63.
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... talk about the dissolution of the Union is humbug , nothing but folly . We do not want to dissolve the Union ; you shall not . " It was foreseen , that if peace was not restored in Kansas , Buchanan's defeat would be a certainty . Mr ...
... talk about the dissolution of the Union is humbug , nothing but folly . We do not want to dissolve the Union ; you shall not . " It was foreseen , that if peace was not restored in Kansas , Buchanan's defeat would be a certainty . Mr ...
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... sought the relation I hold in public affairs . I often come to a point where I feel I have done all the going and talking I can consistently attend to for awhile , and settle down more determined to follow my law busi- 88 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... sought the relation I hold in public affairs . I often come to a point where I feel I have done all the going and talking I can consistently attend to for awhile , and settle down more determined to follow my law busi- 88 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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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.