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Whatever then their cause may be , it is common to the whole country . It would be tedious as well as useless to recount the horrors of all of them . Those happening in the State of Mississippi and at St. Louis are perhaps the most ...
Whatever then their cause may be , it is common to the whole country . It would be tedious as well as useless to recount the horrors of all of them . Those happening in the State of Mississippi and at St. Louis are perhaps the most ...
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There are now , and will hereafter be , many causes , dangerous in their tendency , which have not existed heretofore , and which are not too insignificant to merit attention . That our government should have been maintained in its ...
There are now , and will hereafter be , many causes , dangerous in their tendency , which have not existed heretofore , and which are not too insignificant to merit attention . That our government should have been maintained in its ...
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And thus , from the force of circumstances , the basest principles of our nature were either made to lie dormant , or to become the active agents in the advanceinent of the noblest of causes — that of establishing and maintaining civil ...
And thus , from the force of circumstances , the basest principles of our nature were either made to lie dormant , or to become the active agents in the advanceinent of the noblest of causes — that of establishing and maintaining civil ...
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... too , may be ; bow to it I never will . The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just ; it > If ever my shall not deter me . feel the 26 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
... too , may be ; bow to it I never will . The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just ; it > If ever my shall not deter me . feel the 26 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
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If ever my shall not deter me . feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect , it is when I contemplate the cause of country , deserted by all the world beside , and I ...
If ever my shall not deter me . feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect , it is when I contemplate the cause of country , deserted by all the world beside , and I ...
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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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