The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters, and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished, and Illustrated with Many Reproductions from Original Paintings, Photographs, Etc, Volume 2Lincoln history society, 1900 |
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... hands , and begin with the words , ' That re- minds me , ' and proceed . Everybody prepared for the ex- plosion sure to follow . I recall with vivid pleasure the scene of merriment at the dinner after his first speech in the House of ...
... hands , and begin with the words , ' That re- minds me , ' and proceed . Everybody prepared for the ex- plosion sure to follow . I recall with vivid pleasure the scene of merriment at the dinner after his first speech in the House of ...
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... hands until Mexico herself became the aggressor , by invading our soil in hostile array , and shedding the blood of our citizens . ' " And yet again , in his message of December 7 , 1847 , that ' the Mexican Government refused even to ...
... hands until Mexico herself became the aggressor , by invading our soil in hostile array , and shedding the blood of our citizens . ' " And yet again , in his message of December 7 , 1847 , that ' the Mexican Government refused even to ...
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... hands - some time before he was eighteen years old - he had gathered a large amount of practical informa- tion about the question which he was able then to weigh in the light of the great principles of the Constitution , the ordinance ...
... hands - some time before he was eighteen years old - he had gathered a large amount of practical informa- tion about the question which he was able then to weigh in the light of the great principles of the Constitution , the ordinance ...
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... hand of his Maker ; then , as now , Niagara was roaring here . The eyes of that species of extinct giants whose bones fill the mounds of America have gazed on Niagara , as ours do now . Contemporary with the first race of men , and ...
... hand of his Maker ; then , as now , Niagara was roaring here . The eyes of that species of extinct giants whose bones fill the mounds of America have gazed on Niagara , as ours do now . Contemporary with the first race of men , and ...
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... hand in such a piece of foolery . " All this plain advice did not prevent Johnston trying to sell a small piece of land on which Mr. Lincoln had paid the mortgage in order to secure it to his step - mother during her life . When Mr ...
... hand in such a piece of foolery . " All this plain advice did not prevent Johnston trying to sell a small piece of land on which Mr. Lincoln had paid the mortgage in order to secure it to his step - mother during her life . When Mr ...
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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...