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... speech they became so uproari- ous that he was obliged to desist . The plain truth is there were a great many there who were unwilling to hear him and manifested their disapprobation in a very noisy and disrespectful manner . We regret ...
... speech they became so uproari- ous that he was obliged to desist . The plain truth is there were a great many there who were unwilling to hear him and manifested their disapprobation in a very noisy and disrespectful manner . We regret ...
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... speech already described in this volume . The impression made upon me by the orator was quite overpowering . I had not heard much political speaking up to that time . I have heard a great deal since . I have never heard anything since ...
... speech already described in this volume . The impression made upon me by the orator was quite overpowering . I had not heard much political speaking up to that time . I have heard a great deal since . I have never heard anything since ...
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... SPEECH Agreeably to previous notice , circulated in the morning by hand bill , Hon . A. Lincoln delivered a speech yesterday , at the State House , in the Hall of Representatives in reply to the speech of Senator Douglas , of the ...
... SPEECH Agreeably to previous notice , circulated in the morning by hand bill , Hon . A. Lincoln delivered a speech yesterday , at the State House , in the Hall of Representatives in reply to the speech of Senator Douglas , of the ...
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... speech went unre- ported . In later years it was written out from memory by one of the hearers and became known as " Lincoln's lost speech , " being the subject of no little controversy . [ Illinois Journal , Springfield , June 3 , 1856 ] ...
... speech went unre- ported . In later years it was written out from memory by one of the hearers and became known as " Lincoln's lost speech , " being the subject of no little controversy . [ Illinois Journal , Springfield , June 3 , 1856 ] ...
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... speech on the 17th of June . This was delivered from manuscript and was the only one I ever heard him de- liver in that way . When it was concluded he put the manuscript in my hands and asked me to go to the State Journal office and ...
... speech on the 17th of June . This was delivered from manuscript and was the only one I ever heard him de- liver in that way . When it was concluded he put the manuscript in my hands and asked me to go to the State Journal office and ...
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Page 109 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 93 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 178 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 340 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races — that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races...
Page 485 - 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. It is the same spirit that says, " You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Page 102 - 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 485 - 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. It is the same spirit that says, "You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Page 469 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 278 - And be it further enacted, That the following propositions be, and the same are hereby offered to the convention of the eastern state of the said territory, when formed, for their free acceptance or rejection, which, if accepted by the convention, shall be obligatory upon the United States.
Page 20 - All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post-offices, land-offices, marshalships and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.