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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Page vii
... wrong . They refused to accept the view that later generations of American citizens were to be bound for an indefi- nite period by this error of judgment on the part of the Fathers . They proposed to get rid of slavery , as an ...
... wrong . They refused to accept the view that later generations of American citizens were to be bound for an indefi- nite period by this error of judgment on the part of the Fathers . They proposed to get rid of slavery , as an ...
Page viii
... wrong done to mankind and to justice under the laws of South Carolina . The Whig party , whose great leader , Henry Clay , had closed his life in 1852 , just at the time when Lincoln was becoming prominent in politics , held that all ...
... wrong done to mankind and to justice under the laws of South Carolina . The Whig party , whose great leader , Henry Clay , had closed his life in 1852 , just at the time when Lincoln was becoming prominent in politics , held that all ...
Page xi
... wrong . The utterance was hard , knotty , gnarly , backed with wrath . " Lincoln's correspondence has been preserved with what is probably substantial completeness . The letters written by him to friends , acquaintances , political ...
... wrong . The utterance was hard , knotty , gnarly , backed with wrath . " Lincoln's correspondence has been preserved with what is probably substantial completeness . The letters written by him to friends , acquaintances , political ...
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... wrong . But can we , for that reason , run ahead , and infer that he will make any particular change , o which he himself has given no intimation ? Can w safely base our action upon any such vague infer ence ? Now , as ever , I wish not ...
... wrong . But can we , for that reason , run ahead , and infer that he will make any particular change , o which he himself has given no intimation ? Can w safely base our action upon any such vague infer ence ? Now , as ever , I wish not ...
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... wrong , whethe it would be good or evil for them to adopt it ; an the right of free action , the right of free thought , th right of free judgment , upon the question is dearer t every true American than any other under a free ...
... wrong , whethe it would be good or evil for them to adopt it ; an the right of free action , the right of free thought , th right of free judgment , upon the question is dearer t every true American than any other under a free ...
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