Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln |
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I have no wealthy or popular relations or friends to recommend me . My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the country ; and , if elected , they will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting ...
I have no wealthy or popular relations or friends to recommend me . My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the country ; and , if elected , they will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting ...
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I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part , however low it may sink me , shall never break the tie of personal friendship between us . I wish an answer to this , and you are at liberty to publish both , if you ...
I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part , however low it may sink me , shall never break the tie of personal friendship between us . I wish an answer to this , and you are at liberty to publish both , if you ...
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By such things the feelings of the best citizens will become more or less alienated from it , and thus it will be left without friends , or with too few , and those few too weak to make their friendship effectual .
By such things the feelings of the best citizens will become more or less alienated from it , and thus it will be left without friends , or with too few , and those few too weak to make their friendship effectual .
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... A. LINCOLN , [ Letter to Miss Mary Owens . Springfield , Illinois , 7 May 1837. ) Friend Mary : I have commenced two letters to send you before this , both of which displeased me before I got half done , and so I tore them up .
... A. LINCOLN , [ Letter to Miss Mary Owens . Springfield , Illinois , 7 May 1837. ) Friend Mary : I have commenced two letters to send you before this , both of which displeased me before I got half done , and so I tore them up .
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Springfield , Illinois , 16 August 1837. ] Friend Mary : You will no doubt think it rather strange that I should write you a letter on the same day on which we parted , and I can only account for it 19 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Springfield , Illinois , 16 August 1837. ] Friend Mary : You will no doubt think it rather strange that I should write you a letter on the same day on which we parted , and I can only account for it 19 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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