The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters, and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished, and Illustrated with Many Reproductions from Original Paintings, Photographs, Etc, Volume 2Lincoln history society, 1900 |
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... asking the confidence of the country , this new one had less of principle than any other . " He wondered whether it was still the opinion of these Free Soil gentlemen , as declared in the whereas ' at Buffalo , that the Whig and ...
... asking the confidence of the country , this new one had less of principle than any other . " He wondered whether it was still the opinion of these Free Soil gentlemen , as declared in the whereas ' at Buffalo , that the Whig and ...
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... asking him to speak . But Lincoln won something in New England of vastly deeper importance than a reputation for making popular cam- paign speeches . Here for the first time he caught a glimpse of the utter impossibility of ever ...
... asking him to speak . But Lincoln won something in New England of vastly deeper importance than a reputation for making popular cam- paign speeches . Here for the first time he caught a glimpse of the utter impossibility of ever ...
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... asked him what made the deepest impression on him when he stood before the Falls . " The thing that struck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls , " he responded , " was , where in the world did all that water come from ? " The memory ...
... asked him what made the deepest impression on him when he stood before the Falls . " The thing that struck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls , " he responded , " was , where in the world did all that water come from ? " The memory ...
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... asked , and I poured out all my story . 66 ' How big's the trunk ? There's still time , if it isn't too big . ' And he pushed through the gate and up to the door . My mother and I took him up to my room , where my little old- fashioned ...
... asked , and I poured out all my story . 66 ' How big's the trunk ? There's still time , if it isn't too big . ' And he pushed through the gate and up to the door . My mother and I took him up to my room , where my little old- fashioned ...
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... asked . " Just what's the matter with the whole world , " Lincoln replied ; " I've got three walnuts and each wants two . " Another of Lincoln's Springfield acquaintances , the Rev. Mr. Alcott of Elgin , Ill . , tells of seeing him ...
... asked . " Just what's the matter with the whole world , " Lincoln replied ; " I've got three walnuts and each wants two . " Another of Lincoln's Springfield acquaintances , the Rev. Mr. Alcott of Elgin , Ill . , tells of seeing him ...
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Page 153 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS...
Page 119 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now.
Page 202 - My Friends: No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot...
Page 108 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 96 - We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen — Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James, for instance...
Page 88 - While extremists may find some fault with the moderation of our platform, they should recollect that " the battle is not always to the strong, nor the race to the swift.
Page 120 - The sum of the whole is, that of our thirty-nine fathers who framed the original Constitution, twenty-one — a clear majority of the whole — certainly understood that no proper division of local from federal authority, nor any part of the Constitution, forbade the Federal Government to control slavery in the federal territories; while all the rest probably had the same understanding. Such, unquestionably, was the understanding of our fathers who framed the original Constitution; and the text affirms...
Page 96 - ... fitting, and all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few, not omitting even scaffolding — or, if a single piece be lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared yet to bring such...
Page 93 - ... which are not really true ; or, if wanting in some of these, it had been before the court more than once, and had there been affirmed and reaffirmed through a course of years, it then might be, perhaps would be, factious, nay, even revolutionary, not to acquiesce in it as a precedent. But when, as is true, we find it wanting in all these claims to the public confidence, it is not resistance, it is not factious, it is not even disrespectful, to treat it as not having yet quite established a settled...
Page 120 - Republicans desire — in relation to slavery. AS those fathers marked it, so let it be again marked, as an evil not to be extended, but to be tolerated and protected only because of, and so far as, its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity. Let all the guaranties those fathers gave it be not grudgingly, but fully and fairly maintained. For this Republicans contend, and with this, so far as I know or believe, they will be content. And now, if they would listen...