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I also acknowledge your rights and my obligations under the 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 unrequited toil ; but I bite my ...
I also acknowledge your rights and my obligations under the 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 unrequited toil ; but I bite my ...
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wwwwwwwww WWWWWWM LINCOLN , INCOLN , having many times declared his intentions to prevent the spread of slavery to the Territories and not to interfere with slavery in the States , sees no possible good in restating his position to ...
wwwwwwwww WWWWWWM LINCOLN , INCOLN , having many times declared his intentions to prevent the spread of slavery to the Territories and not to interfere with slavery in the States , sees no possible good in restating his position to ...
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General Butler wrote me a few days since that he was issuing more rations to the slaves who have rushed to him than ... New Orleans to defend some other point , what is to prevent the masters from reducing the blacks to slavery again ?
General Butler wrote me a few days since that he was issuing more rations to the slaves who have rushed to him than ... New Orleans to defend some other point , what is to prevent the masters from reducing the blacks to slavery again ?
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Contents
POSTMASTER LAWYER REPRESENTATIVE OF | 1 |
To William H Herndon | 16 |
To John W Crisfield | 121 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | H. Jack Lang |
| Publisher | World Publishing Company, 1941 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 20 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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