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Page 58
... you very soon get to making applications yourself , -in one instance as follows : " In view of all the facts , the conviction to my mind is irresistible that the Government of the United States committed no aggression on Mexico .
... you very soon get to making applications yourself , -in one instance as follows : " In view of all the facts , the conviction to my mind is irresistible that the Government of the United States committed no aggression on Mexico .
Page 71
Nonsense ! If you can't now live with the land , how will you then live without it ? You have always been kind to me , and I do not mean to be unkind to you . On the contrary , if you will but follow my advice , you will ...
Nonsense ! If you can't now live with the land , how will you then live without it ? You have always been kind to me , and I do not mean to be unkind to you . On the contrary , if you will but follow my advice , you will ...
Page 82
These principles are an eternal antagonism , and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them , shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow . Repeal thc Missouri Compromise , repeal all ...
These principles are an eternal antagonism , and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them , shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow . Repeal thc Missouri Compromise , repeal all ...
Page 96
Judge Douglas does not discuss the merits of the decision , and in that respect I shall follow his example , believing I could no more improve on McLean and Curtis than he could on Taney . He denounces all who question the correctness ...
Judge Douglas does not discuss the merits of the decision , and in that respect I shall follow his example , believing I could no more improve on McLean and Curtis than he could on Taney . He denounces all who question the correctness ...
Page 97
Mammon is after him , ambition follows , philosophy follows , and the theology of the day is fast joining the cry . They have him in his & prison - house ; they have searched his person 97 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Mammon is after him , ambition follows , philosophy follows , and the theology of the day is fast joining the cry . They have him in his & prison - house ; they have searched his person 97 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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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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