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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... mind that slavery was an enormous evil for the whites as well as for the blacks , for the individual as for the nation . He had himself , as a young man , been brought up to do toilsome manual labour . He would not admit that there was ...
... mind that slavery was an enormous evil for the whites as well as for the blacks , for the individual as for the nation . He had himself , as a young man , been brought up to do toilsome manual labour . He would not admit that there was ...
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... mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course o ultimate extinction , or its advocates will push i forward till it shall become alike lawful in all th States , old as well as new , North as well as South . Have we no tendency ...
... mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course o ultimate extinction , or its advocates will push i forward till it shall become alike lawful in all th States , old as well as new , North as well as South . Have we no tendency ...
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... mind , the principle for which he declares he has suffered so much , and is ready to suffer to the and . And well may he cling to that principle ! If he has any parental feeling , well may he cling to it . That principle is the only ...
... mind , the principle for which he declares he has suffered so much , and is ready to suffer to the and . And well may he cling to that principle ! If he has any parental feeling , well may he cling to it . That principle is the only ...
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... mind over the string of historical facts already stated . Several things will now ap- pear less dark and mysterious than they did when they were transpiring . The people were to be left " perfectly free , " ' subject only to the ...
... mind over the string of historical facts already stated . Several things will now ap- pear less dark and mysterious than they did when they were transpiring . The people were to be left " perfectly free , " ' subject only to the ...
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... mind , and which underli the foundations of our free institutions . A reception like this , so great in numbers that no human voice can be heard to its countless thousands , -- so enthu siastic that no one individual can be the object o ...
... mind , and which underli the foundations of our free institutions . A reception like this , so great in numbers that no human voice can be heard to its countless thousands , -- so enthu siastic that no one individual can be the object o ...
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