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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 ...
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... 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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... senators who sat present and heard him , no one rebuked him . Nor am I apprised that any Nebraska newspaper , or any Nebraska orator , in the whole nation has ever yet rebuked him . If this had been said among Marion's men , Southerners ...
... senators who sat present and heard him , no one rebuked him . Nor am I apprised that any Nebraska newspaper , or any Nebraska orator , in the whole nation has ever yet rebuked him . If this had been said among Marion's men , Southerners ...
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... Senate ; but no one supposed that the Union was in danger . In fact , at the very time Mr. Fill- more uttered this idle charge , the state of things in the United States disproved it . Mr. Pierce , of New Hampshire , and Mr. Bright , of ...
... Senate ; but no one supposed that the Union was in danger . In fact , at the very time Mr. Fill- more uttered this idle charge , the state of things in the United States disproved it . Mr. Pierce , of New Hampshire , and Mr. Bright , of ...
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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 201037 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 201037 men equal ...
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