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Page 74
... your gain in the case , you have given up the slave system and adopted the free system of labor . [ From a speech delivered in reply to Senator Stephen 74 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES [Fragment written about 1 July 1854.] ...
... your gain in the case , you have given up the slave system and adopted the free system of labor . [ From a speech delivered in reply to Senator Stephen 74 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES [Fragment written about 1 July 1854.] ...
Page 75
Abraham Lincoln. [ From a speech delivered in reply to Senator Stephen A. Douglas at Peoria , Illinois , 16 October 1854. ] About a month after the introduction of the bill [ to give Nebraska and Kansas ... Senator Stephen ...
Abraham Lincoln. [ From a speech delivered in reply to Senator Stephen A. Douglas at Peoria , Illinois , 16 October 1854. ] About a month after the introduction of the bill [ to give Nebraska and Kansas ... Senator Stephen ...
Page 79
... senator has found great difficulty in getting his antagonists , even in the Senate , to meet him fairly on this argument . Some poet has said : Fools rush in where angels fear to tread . At the hazard of being thought one of the fools ...
... senator has found great difficulty in getting his antagonists , even in the Senate , to meet him fairly on this argument . Some poet has said : Fools rush in where angels fear to tread . At the hazard of being thought one of the fools ...
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... senator for doing this obvious vio- lence to the plain , unmistakable language of the Declara- tion . I think the authors of that notable instrument intended to include all men , but they did not intend to declare all 284537 men equal ...
... senator for doing this obvious vio- lence to the plain , unmistakable language of the Declara- tion . I think the authors of that notable instrument intended to include all men , but they did not intend to declare all 284537 men equal ...
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... senator 16 June 1858. ] Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention : If we could first know where we are , and whither we are tending , we could better judge what to do , and how to do it . We are now far into the fifth year since a ...
... senator 16 June 1858. ] Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention : If we could first know where we are , and whither we are tending , we could better judge what to do , and how to do it . We are now far into the fifth year since a ...
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