The Life of Abraham Lincoln: From His Birth to His Inauguration as President, Volume 2J.R. Osgood, 1872 - 547 pages |
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... Shields in certain witty and sarcastic letters . — Mr. Lincoln's name " given up " as the author . Challenged by Shields . — A meeting and an explanation . Correspondence . Candidate for Con- gressional nomination . — Letters to Speed ...
... Shields in certain witty and sarcastic letters . — Mr. Lincoln's name " given up " as the author . Challenged by Shields . — A meeting and an explanation . Correspondence . Candidate for Con- gressional nomination . — Letters to Speed ...
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... Shields , and Abraham Lincoln , and re- citing the high places of honor and trust to which most of them have since attained , Gov. Ford pronounces " all of them spared monuments of popular wrath , evincing how safe it is to a politician ...
... Shields , and Abraham Lincoln , and re- citing the high places of honor and trust to which most of them have since attained , Gov. Ford pronounces " all of them spared monuments of popular wrath , evincing how safe it is to a politician ...
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... shield and protect it . Even in the District of Columbia , Mr. Lincoln and Dan Stone would leave it entirely to the will of the people . In fact , the whole paper , plain and simple as it is , seems to have been drawn with no object but ...
... shield and protect it . Even in the District of Columbia , Mr. Lincoln and Dan Stone would leave it entirely to the will of the people . In fact , the whole paper , plain and simple as it is , seems to have been drawn with no object but ...
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... Shields , and I have now to inform you that the duelling business still rages in this city . Day before yesterday Shields challenged Butler , who accepted , and proposed fighting next morning at sunrising in Bob Allen's meadow , one ...
... Shields , and I have now to inform you that the duelling business still rages in this city . Day before yesterday Shields challenged Butler , who accepted , and proposed fighting next morning at sunrising in Bob Allen's meadow , one ...
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... Shields . " That was another of the disagreeable conse- quences which flowed from his fatal entanglement with Mary . Not content with managing a timid , although half - frantic and refractory , lover , her restless spirit led her into ...
... Shields . " That was another of the disagreeable conse- quences which flowed from his fatal entanglement with Mary . Not content with managing a timid , although half - frantic and refractory , lover , her restless spirit led her into ...
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Page 532 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the National authority.
Page 342 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 530 - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 533 - The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress protect slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. If the minority will not acquiesce the majority must, or the Government must cease.
Page 534 - ... if the policy of the Government upon vital questions • affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 535 - States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.
Page 402 - squatter sovereignty" squatted out of existence, tumbled down like temporary scaffolding— like the mould at the foundry served through one blast and fell back into loose sand— helped to carry an election, and then was kicked to the winds. His late joint struggle with the Republicans, against the Lecompton Constitution, involves nothing of the original Nebraska doctrine. That struggle was made on a point— the right of a people to make their own constitution— upon which he and the Republicans...
Page 166 - Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift, fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around and together be laid ; And the young and the old, and the low and the high Shall moulder to dust and together shall lie.
Page 426 - What is the question which according to the text, those fathers understood "just as well and even better than we do now?" It is this: Does the proper division of local from Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, forbid our Federal government to control as to slavery in our Federal territories? Upon this Senator Douglas holds the affirmative and Republicans the negative.
Page 535 - If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.