The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters, and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished, and Illustrated with Many Reproductions from Original Paintings, Photographs, Etc, Volume 2Lincoln history society, 1900 |
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... Court at that pe- riod , through Lincoln's friend , Washburn . Mr. Lincoln , the story goes , came to the library one day for the purpose of procuring some law books which he wanted to take to his room for examination . Getting together ...
... Court at that pe- riod , through Lincoln's friend , Washburn . Mr. Lincoln , the story goes , came to the library one day for the purpose of procuring some law books which he wanted to take to his room for examination . Getting together ...
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... court closed in the town on the circuit , and the lawyers were gathered in the bar- room or on the veranda of the tavern , telling stories and chaffing one another , Lincoln would join them , though often but for a few minutes . He ...
... court closed in the town on the circuit , and the lawyers were gathered in the bar- room or on the veranda of the tavern , telling stories and chaffing one another , Lincoln would join them , though often but for a few minutes . He ...
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... court . With the judge travelled a certain num- ber of the best - known lawyers of the district . Each lawyer had , of course , a permanent office in one of the county - seats , and often at several of the others he had partners ...
... court . With the judge travelled a certain num- ber of the best - known lawyers of the district . Each lawyer had , of course , a permanent office in one of the county - seats , and often at several of the others he had partners ...
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... court travelled on horseback or in car- riages . Lincoln had no horse in the early days of his prac- tice . It was his habit then to borrow one , or to join a com- pany of a half dozen or more in hiring a " three - seated spring wagon ...
... court travelled on horseback or in car- riages . Lincoln had no horse in the early days of his prac- tice . It was his habit then to borrow one , or to join a com- pany of a half dozen or more in hiring a " three - seated spring wagon ...
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... court began . Lincoln was a favorite figure at all these gatherings . His favorite field , however , was the court . The court- houses of Illinois in which he practised were not log houses , as has been frequently taken for granted ...
... court began . Lincoln was a favorite figure at all these gatherings . His favorite field , however , was the court . The court- houses of Illinois in which he practised were not log houses , as has been frequently taken for granted ...
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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...