Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, Volume 1 |
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Page 29
... charge that the money will be stolen fully if they can show that they will bring the offenders to punishment . Not so . Will the punishment of the thief bring back the stolen money ? No more so than the hanging of a murderer restores ...
... charge that the money will be stolen fully if they can show that they will bring the offenders to punishment . Not so . Will the punishment of the thief bring back the stolen money ? No more so than the hanging of a murderer restores ...
Page 33
... charge of extravagant expenditures equally well sustained , if shown to have been made by a Van Buren Congress , as ... charges , we say , could not exceed one or two millions a year . Deduct such a sum from the forty - million ...
... charge of extravagant expenditures equally well sustained , if shown to have been made by a Van Buren Congress , as ... charges , we say , could not exceed one or two millions a year . Deduct such a sum from the forty - million ...
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... charge upon the treasury , whereas under Mr. Adams and the presi- dents before him it not only , to use a homely phrase , cut its own fodder , but actually threw a surplus into the treasury . Although nothing of the forty millions was ...
... charge upon the treasury , whereas under Mr. Adams and the presi- dents before him it not only , to use a homely phrase , cut its own fodder , but actually threw a surplus into the treasury . Although nothing of the forty millions was ...
Page 36
... charge of an engagement , being asked by his captain why he did so , replied : " Captain , I have as brave a heart as Julius Cæsar ever had ; but , somehow or other , whenever danger approaches , my cowardly legs will run away with it ...
... charge of an engagement , being asked by his captain why he did so , replied : " Captain , I have as brave a heart as Julius Cæsar ever had ; but , somehow or other , whenever danger approaches , my cowardly legs will run away with it ...
Page 51
... charged in some of the public prints that Harry Wilton , late United States marshal for the district of Illinois , had used ... charge . We accompanied Mr. Wil- ton to a room , and examined the matter as fully as we could with the means ...
... charged in some of the public prints that Harry Wilton , late United States marshal for the district of Illinois , had used ... charge . We accompanied Mr. Wil- ton to a room , and examined the matter as fully as we could with the means ...
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