The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters, and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished, and Illustrated with Many Reproductions from Original Paintings, Photographs, Etc, Volume 2Lincoln history society, 1900 |
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... wish to bring these facts to your notice , and to as- certain what is the result of your reflections upon them . If you deny that they are facts , I think I can furnish proofs which shall convince you that you are mistaken . If you ad ...
... wish to bring these facts to your notice , and to as- certain what is the result of your reflections upon them . If you deny that they are facts , I think I can furnish proofs which shall convince you that you are mistaken . If you ad ...
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... wish , then he would give up the argument . But since there was no fixed law on the subject , and since the whole probable result of their action would be an assist- ance in electing General Cass , he must say that they were be- hind ...
... wish , then he would give up the argument . But since there was no fixed law on the subject , and since the whole probable result of their action would be an assist- ance in electing General Cass , he must say that they were be- hind ...
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... wish to introduce or discuss subjects that would provoke a controversy . " When such conversation would threaten angry or even unpleasant contention he would interrupt it by interposing some anecdote , thus diverting it into a hearty ...
... wish to introduce or discuss subjects that would provoke a controversy . " When such conversation would threaten angry or even unpleasant contention he would interrupt it by interposing some anecdote , thus diverting it into a hearty ...
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... wish to deal fairly with others , to keep peace among our friends , and to keep the district from going to the enemy , than from any cause personal to myself ; so that , if it should so happen that nobody else wishes to be elected , I ...
... wish to deal fairly with others , to keep peace among our friends , and to keep the district from going to the enemy , than from any cause personal to myself ; so that , if it should so happen that nobody else wishes to be elected , I ...
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... wish to know how Butterfield finally beat me . I cannot tell you particulars now , but will when I see you . In the meantime let it be understood I am not greatly dissatis- fied - I wish the office had been so bestowed as to encourage ...
... wish to know how Butterfield finally beat me . I cannot tell you particulars now , but will when I see you . In the meantime let it be understood I am not greatly dissatis- fied - I wish the office had been so bestowed as to encourage ...
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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...