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I have no wealthy or popular relations or friends to recommend me . My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the country ; and , if elected , they will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting ...
I have no wealthy or popular relations or friends to recommend me . My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the country ; and , if elected , they will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting ...
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There is in this something so repugnant to humanity , so uncharitable , so cold - blooded and feelingless , that it never did nor ever can enlist the enthusiasm of a popular cause . We could not love the man who taught it- -we could not ...
There is in this something so repugnant to humanity , so uncharitable , so cold - blooded and feelingless , that it never did nor ever can enlist the enthusiasm of a popular cause . We could not love the man who taught it- -we could not ...
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Just such a discovery has General Jackson's popularity been to you . You not only twice made President of him out of it , but you have had enough of the stuff left to make Presidents of several comparatively small men since ; and it is ...
Just such a discovery has General Jackson's popularity been to you . You not only twice made President of him out of it , but you have had enough of the stuff left to make Presidents of several comparatively small men since ; and it is ...
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There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest . I say vague , because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people , it appears improbable that ...
There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest . I say vague , because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people , it appears improbable that ...
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... being in a popular minority of nearly four hundred thousand votes . He has seen his chief aids in his own State , Shields and Richardson , politically speaking , successively tried , convicted , and executed for an offense not their ...
... being in a popular minority of nearly four hundred thousand votes . He has seen his chief aids in his own State , Shields and Richardson , politically speaking , successively tried , convicted , and executed for an offense not their ...
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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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