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... believe it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed . ' A house divided against itself can- not stand . ' I believe this government cannot endure perma- nently half slave and half free . I do not expect the Union ...
... believe it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed . ' A house divided against itself can- not stand . ' I believe this government cannot endure perma- nently half slave and half free . I do not expect the Union ...
Page 443
... believe , by anything I have ever said . If by any means I have ever used language which could fairly be so construed ( as , however , I believe I never have ) , I now correct it . So much , then , for the inference that Judge Douglas ...
... believe , by anything I have ever said . If by any means I have ever used language which could fairly be so construed ( as , however , I believe I never have ) , I now correct it . So much , then , for the inference that Judge Douglas ...
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... believe if we could arrest the spread , and place it where Washington and Jefferson and Madison placed it , it would be in the course of ultimate extinction , and the public mind would , as for eighty years past , believe that it was in ...
... believe if we could arrest the spread , and place it where Washington and Jefferson and Madison placed it , it would be in the course of ultimate extinction , and the public mind would , as for eighty years past , believe that it was in ...
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Reply to a Committee of Religious Denominations Asking | 145 |
Chronology | 193 |
Address to the People of Sangamon County Illinois March | 221 |
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