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I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world ; enables the enemies of free institutions with plausibility to taunt us as hypocrites ; causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity ...
I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world ; enables the enemies of free institutions with plausibility to taunt us as hypocrites ; causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity ...
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Our republican robe is soiled and trailed in the dust . Let us repurify it . Let us turn and wash it white in the spirit , if not the blood , of the Revolution . Let us turn slavery from its claims of " moral right ” back 84 LETTERS AND ...
Our republican robe is soiled and trailed in the dust . Let us repurify it . Let us turn and wash it white in the spirit , if not the blood , of the Revolution . Let us turn slavery from its claims of " moral right ” back 84 LETTERS AND ...
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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves . Our political problem now is , “ Can we as a nation continue ...
The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves . Our political problem now is , “ Can we as a nation continue ...
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1 ( Fragment of a speech delivered at a Republican banquet in Chicago , 10 December 1856. ) We have another annual presidential message . Like a rejected lover making merry at the wedding of his rival , the President felicitates himself ...
1 ( Fragment of a speech delivered at a Republican banquet in Chicago , 10 December 1856. ) We have another annual presidential message . Like a rejected lover making merry at the wedding of his rival , the President felicitates himself ...
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He finds the Republicans insisting that the Declaration of Independence includes all men , black as well as white , and forthwith he boldly denies that it includes negroes at all , and proceeds to argue gravely that all who contend it ...
He finds the Republicans insisting that the Declaration of Independence includes all men , black as well as white , and forthwith he boldly denies that it includes negroes at all , and proceeds to argue gravely that all who contend it ...
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| Title | Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln American Civil War, letters and diaries Half-title: The unit books, no. 2 Issue 2 of The Unit books |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | Mary Maclean |
| Publisher | Unit Book Publishing Company, 1907 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 7 Apr 2011 |
| Length | 385 pages |
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