The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
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... Constitution in regard to your slaves . I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down and caught and carried back to their stripes and un- requited toil ; but I bite my lips and keep quiet . In 1841 you and I had together a ...
... Constitution in regard to your slaves . I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down and caught and carried back to their stripes and un- requited toil ; but I bite my lips and keep quiet . In 1841 you and I had together a ...
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... constitution , and with it will ask to be admitted into the Union , I take to be already a settled question , and so set- tled by the very means you so pointedly condemn . By every principle of law ever held by any court North or South ...
... constitution , and with it will ask to be admitted into the Union , I take to be already a settled question , and so set- tled by the very means you so pointedly condemn . By every principle of law ever held by any court North or South ...
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... Constitution . . . . 99 LINCOL INCOLN decries the acts of a judge who uses the protec- tion of the Constitution to shield certain men who would seek to destroy it . LETTER TO JOHN W. CRISFIELD Executive Mansion , Washington , June 26 ...
... Constitution . . . . 99 LINCOL INCOLN decries the acts of a judge who uses the protec- tion of the Constitution to shield certain men who would seek to destroy it . LETTER TO JOHN W. CRISFIELD Executive Mansion , Washington , June 26 ...
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