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Page 77
It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted , but for their tardi- ness in this I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South . When they remind us of their constitutional rights , I ac- knowledge ...
It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted , but for their tardi- ness in this I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South . When they remind us of their constitutional rights , I ac- knowledge ...
Page 86
The signal failure of Henry Clay and other good and great men , in 1849 , to effect anything in favor of gradual emancipation in Ken- tucky , together with a thousand other signs , extinguished that hope utterly .
The signal failure of Henry Clay and other good and great men , in 1849 , to effect anything in favor of gradual emancipation in Ken- tucky , together with a thousand other signs , extinguished that hope utterly .
Page 97
In those days , as I understand , masters could , at their own pleasure , emancipate their slaves ; but since then such legal restraints have been made upon emancipation as to amount almost to prohibition . In those days legislatures ...
In those days , as I understand , masters could , at their own pleasure , emancipate their slaves ; but since then such legal restraints have been made upon emancipation as to amount almost to prohibition . In those days legislatures ...
Page 115
Henry Clay , my beau ideal of a statesman , the man for whom I fought all my humble life - Henry Clay once said of a class of men who would repress all tendencies to lib- erty and ultimate emancipation , that they must , if they would ...
Henry Clay , my beau ideal of a statesman , the man for whom I fought all my humble life - Henry Clay once said of a class of men who would repress all tendencies to lib- erty and ultimate emancipation , that they must , if they would ...
Page 128
Still we do not propose to do that , unless it should be in terms which I don't suppose the nation is very likely soon to agree to— the terms of making the emancipation gradual and com- pensating the unwilling owners .
Still we do not propose to do that , unless it should be in terms which I don't suppose the nation is very likely soon to agree to— the terms of making the emancipation gradual and com- pensating the unwilling owners .
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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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