The Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in Illinois, Together with Certain Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc |
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... give promise that such a decision ca be maintained when made . Such a decision is all that slavery now lacks being alike lawful in all the States . Welcome unwelcome , such decision is probably coming , an will soon be upon us , unless ...
... give promise that such a decision ca be maintained when made . Such a decision is all that slavery now lacks being alike lawful in all the States . Welcome unwelcome , such decision is probably coming , an will soon be upon us , unless ...
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... give it their cordial support . The Crittenden - Montgomery bill was as fair and as perfect an exposition of the doctrine of popular Sovereignty as could be carried out by any bill that man ever devised . It proposed to refer the Le ...
... give it their cordial support . The Crittenden - Montgomery bill was as fair and as perfect an exposition of the doctrine of popular Sovereignty as could be carried out by any bill that man ever devised . It proposed to refer the Le ...
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... give in hi own language , Scripture quotations and all [ laugh ter ] ; I give his exact language : " A house divide against itself cannot stand . ' I believe this govern ment cannot endure , permanently , half slave an half free . I do ...
... give in hi own language , Scripture quotations and all [ laugh ter ] ; I give his exact language : " A house divide against itself cannot stand . ' I believe this govern ment cannot endure , permanently , half slave an half free . I do ...
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... give him every right and every ivilege which his capacity would enable him to enjoy , consistent with the good of the society in hich he lived . But you ask me , What are these ghts and these privileges ? My answer is , that each State ...
... give him every right and every ivilege which his capacity would enable him to enjoy , consistent with the good of the society in hich he lived . But you ask me , What are these ghts and these privileges ? My answer is , that each State ...
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... , and which I think it wou not be entirely proper for me to omit attending t and yet if I were not to give some attention 38 CONTENTS 10 SPEECH OF LINCOLN, AT SPRINGFIELD, JUNE 17, 1858 X PAGE I AT CHICAGO, JULY 10, 1858.
... , and which I think it wou not be entirely proper for me to omit attending t and yet if I were not to give some attention 38 CONTENTS 10 SPEECH OF LINCOLN, AT SPRINGFIELD, JUNE 17, 1858 X PAGE I AT CHICAGO, JULY 10, 1858.
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