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... position Lincoln held at the bar in these early years is not easy to know . After forming his partnership with Herndon whose family was large and influential he ex- tended his practice somewhat , but he did not travel the large circuit ...
... position Lincoln held at the bar in these early years is not easy to know . After forming his partnership with Herndon whose family was large and influential he ex- tended his practice somewhat , but he did not travel the large circuit ...
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... position , and the labored and ingenious explanations which it re- quired , he was glad to divert attention by ridiculing the mil- itary career of General Cass . Withal , there was an infectious quality in his rollicking burlesque , and ...
... position , and the labored and ingenious explanations which it re- quired , he was glad to divert attention by ridiculing the mil- itary career of General Cass . Withal , there was an infectious quality in his rollicking burlesque , and ...
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... position ; but this is the error , into which so many have fallen , of reading his early years in the light of after time.1 No ; it is plain that Lincoln had followed his party into a state of discord with himself , and with his true ...
... position ; but this is the error , into which so many have fallen , of reading his early years in the light of after time.1 No ; it is plain that Lincoln had followed his party into a state of discord with himself , and with his true ...
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... position with regard to the restriction of slavery to be that of the Whigs- a passage he would hardly have risked before the Whig Club at Washington , of which Steph- ens , Preston , and Toombs were members ; ridiculed the single plank ...
... position with regard to the restriction of slavery to be that of the Whigs- a passage he would hardly have risked before the Whig Club at Washington , of which Steph- ens , Preston , and Toombs were members ; ridiculed the single plank ...
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... position of Lin- 1 Like all travelers Lincoln was impressed by that supendous spectacle , as his notes show ; but his comment to Herndon betrayed no more suscep- tibility to natural grandeur than did Walt Whitman's record of his visit ...
... position of Lin- 1 Like all travelers Lincoln was impressed by that supendous spectacle , as his notes show ; but his comment to Herndon betrayed no more suscep- tibility to natural grandeur than did Walt Whitman's record of his visit ...
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Page 346 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 122 - Witch. WHEN shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain ? 2 Witch.
Page 346 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 268 - 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 66 - When the white man governs himself that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
Page 236 - I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way ; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone.
Page 38 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Page 80 - That sight was a continued torment to me, and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest in a thing which has, and continually exercises, the power of making me miserable.
Page 334 - 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 succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Page 173 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.