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... alike with the guilty fall victims to the ravages of mob law ; and thus it goes on , step by step , till all the walls erected for the defense of the persons and property of individuals are trodden down and disregarded .
... alike with the guilty fall victims to the ravages of mob law ; and thus it goes on , step by step , till all the walls erected for the defense of the persons and property of individuals are trodden down and disregarded .
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sands , and burn churches , ravage and rob provision - stores , throw printing - presses into rivers , shoot editors , and hang and burn obnoxious persons at pleasure and with impunity , depend on it , this government cannot last .
sands , and burn churches , ravage and rob provision - stores , throw printing - presses into rivers , shoot editors , and hang and burn obnoxious persons at pleasure and with impunity , depend on it , this government cannot last .
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I also tried to convince myself that the mind was much more to be valued than the person , and in this she was not inferior , as I could discover , to any with whom I had been acquainted . Shortly after this , without attempting to come ...
I also tried to convince myself that the mind was much more to be valued than the person , and in this she was not inferior , as I could discover , to any with whom I had been acquainted . Shortly after this , without attempting to come ...
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They are supposed to have no sympathy of feeling or interest with those very persons whom it is their object to convince and persuade . And again , it is so common and so easy to ascribe motives to men of these classes other than those ...
They are supposed to have no sympathy of feeling or interest with those very persons whom it is their object to convince and persuade . And again , it is so common and so easy to ascribe motives to men of these classes other than those ...
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a all the thieves and robbers and murderers that infest the earth ; that their houses were the workshops of the devil ; and that their persons should be shunned by all the good and virtuous as moral pestilences — I say , when they were ...
a all the thieves and robbers and murderers that infest the earth ; that their houses were the workshops of the devil ; and that their persons should be shunned by all the good and virtuous as moral pestilences — I say , when they were ...
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| Title | Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ... Issue 2 of The unit books The unit books, no.2 |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Publisher | H.W. Bell, 1903 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 399 pages |
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