Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, Volume 1 |
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... institutions " is selected . In the great journal of things happening under the sun , we , the American people , find our account running under date of the nine- teenth century of the Christian era . We find ourselves in the peace- ful ...
... institutions " is selected . In the great journal of things happening under the sun , we , the American people , find our account running under date of the nine- teenth century of the Christian era . We find ourselves in the peace- ful ...
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... institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy , but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils . They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under ...
... institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy , but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils . They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under ...
Page 38
... institutions honestly and faithfully administered . To overthrow the trained bands that are opposed to us , whose salaried officers are ever on the watch , and whose misguided followers are ever ready to obey their smallest commands ...
... institutions honestly and faithfully administered . To overthrow the trained bands that are opposed to us , whose salaried officers are ever on the watch , and whose misguided followers are ever ready to obey their smallest commands ...
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... institution , that we could not hope to improve in the least on former discussions of the subject , were we to undertake it . We , therefore , upon the question of constitutionality content ourselves with remarking the facts that the ...
... institution , that we could not hope to improve in the least on former discussions of the subject , were we to undertake it . We , therefore , upon the question of constitutionality content ourselves with remarking the facts that the ...
Page 134
... institution , I should not arrest it by the veto , unless I should consider it subject to some con- stitutional objection from which I believe the two former banks to have been free . It appears to me that the national debt created by ...
... institution , I should not arrest it by the veto , unless I should consider it subject to some con- stitutional objection from which I believe the two former banks to have been free . It appears to me that the national debt created by ...
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