The Life of Abraham LincolnT. R. Dawley, 1864 - 100 pages |
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... further South with her family , to what some eight or ten years af- terwards became Washington County . There the soil was more fruitful , and the neighborhood more settled . The . family throve apace , and all reached mature age in ...
... further South with her family , to what some eight or ten years af- terwards became Washington County . There the soil was more fruitful , and the neighborhood more settled . The . family throve apace , and all reached mature age in ...
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... further assistance as he received at home , there is no doubt that he had become able to read well , though without having made any great literary progress , at the age of seven . That he was not a dull or inapt scholar , is manifest ...
... further assistance as he received at home , there is no doubt that he had become able to read well , though without having made any great literary progress , at the age of seven . That he was not a dull or inapt scholar , is manifest ...
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... further accident . During this period the lanky young Abraham , shoeless and hatless , made himself generally useful in A pair of breeches a world too wide for his shrunken shanks . These breeches , reaching nearly to his neck , were 18 ...
... further accident . During this period the lanky young Abraham , shoeless and hatless , made himself generally useful in A pair of breeches a world too wide for his shrunken shanks . These breeches , reaching nearly to his neck , were 18 ...
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... further up , where the Indians were supposed to be . On the way they were joined by 275 more men from McLean , Pecona and other counties . On the 12th of May their advance guard skirmished with , and killed three Indians . Black Hawk ...
... further up , where the Indians were supposed to be . On the way they were joined by 275 more men from McLean , Pecona and other counties . On the 12th of May their advance guard skirmished with , and killed three Indians . Black Hawk ...
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... further removed from all snobbish affectation . As little was there , also , of the demagogue art of assuming an uncouthness or rusti- city of manner and outward habit , with the mistaken no- tion of thus securing particular favor as ...
... further removed from all snobbish affectation . As little was there , also , of the demagogue art of assuming an uncouthness or rusti- city of manner and outward habit , with the mistaken no- tion of thus securing particular favor as ...
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Page 84 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 85 - We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth.
Page 36 - They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy; but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.
Page 84 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Page 63 - We mean to treat you, as near as we possibly can, as Washington, Jefferson, and Madison treated you. We mean to leave you alone, and in no way to interfere with your institutions; to abide by all and every compromise of the Constitution...
Page 48 - ... ../Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.
Page 93 - That we approve the position taken by the government, that the people of the United States can never regard with indifference the attempt of any European power to overthrow by force, or to supplant by fraud, the institutions of any republican government on the western continent...
Page 91 - ... flag; that the nation owes to them some permanent recognition of their patriotism and their valor, and ample and permanent provision for those of their survivors who have received disabling and honorable wounds in the service of the country: and that the memories of those who have fallen in its defense shall be held in grateful and everlasting remembrance.
Page 91 - ... we are in favor, furthermore, of such an amendment to the Constitution, to be made by the people in conformity with its provisions, as shall terminate and forever prohibit the existence of slavery within the limits or the jurisdiction of the United States.
Page 84 - I do not forget the gravity which should characterize a paper addressed to the Congress of the nation by the Chief Magistrate of the nation. Nor do I forget that some of you are my seniors, nor that many of you have more experience than I, in the conduct of public affairs. Yet I trust that in view of the great responsibility resting upon me, you will perceive no want of respect yourselves, in any undue earnestness I may seem to display.