Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Including Inaugurals and ProclamationsA.L. Burt Company, 1906 - 417 pages |
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Page viii
... argument , any more than there is need to argue again the question , also once rife , as to the religious character of the great President and the precise complexion of his religious belief . In re- gard to the latter , there can , we ...
... argument , any more than there is need to argue again the question , also once rife , as to the religious character of the great President and the precise complexion of his religious belief . In re- gard to the latter , there can , we ...
Page xv
... argument , and the absence of temper and of any- thing bitter or personal in the style and manner of his address . In these respects , the future President was invariably honest with himself , as well as with his opponent and his ...
... argument , and the absence of temper and of any- thing bitter or personal in the style and manner of his address . In these respects , the future President was invariably honest with himself , as well as with his opponent and his ...
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... arguments . Let him remember he sits where Washington sat , and so remembering , let him answer as Washington would answer . As a nation should not , and the Almighty will not , be evaded , so let him at- tempt no evasion — no ...
... arguments . Let him remember he sits where Washington sat , and so remembering , let him answer as Washington would answer . As a nation should not , and the Almighty will not , be evaded , so let him at- tempt no evasion — no ...
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... argument of " necessity " was the only argument they ever admitted in favor of slavery ; and so far , and so far only , as it carried them did they ever go . They found the institution existing among us , which they could not help , and ...
... argument of " necessity " was the only argument they ever admitted in favor of slavery ; and so far , and so far only , as it carried them did they ever go . They found the institution existing among us , which they could not help , and ...
Page 43
... arguments of " necessity . " Let us return it to the position our fathers gave it , and there let it rest in peace . Let us readopt the Declaration of Independence , and with it the practices and policy which harmonize with it . Let ...
... arguments of " necessity . " Let us return it to the position our fathers gave it , and there let it rest in peace . Let us readopt the Declaration of Independence , and with it the practices and policy which harmonize with it . Let ...
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