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Page 74
... does not occur to you that to the extent of your gain in the case , you have given up the slave system and adopted the free system of labor . [ From a speech delivered in reply to Senator Stephen 74 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
... does not occur to you that to the extent of your gain in the case , you have given up the slave system and adopted the free system of labor . [ From a speech delivered in reply to Senator Stephen 74 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
Page 75
Abraham Lincoln Mary Maclean. [ From a speech delivered in reply to Senator Stephen A. Douglas at Peoria , Illinois , 16 October 1854. ] About a month after the introduction of the bill [ to give Nebraska and Kansas territorial ...
Abraham Lincoln Mary Maclean. [ From a speech delivered in reply to Senator Stephen A. Douglas at Peoria , Illinois , 16 October 1854. ] About a month after the introduction of the bill [ to give Nebraska and Kansas territorial ...
Page 79
... senator has found great difficulty in getting his antagonists , even in the Senate , to meet him fairly on this argument . Some poet has said : Fools rush in where angels fear to tread . At the hazard of being thought one of the fools ...
... senator has found great difficulty in getting his antagonists , even in the Senate , to meet him fairly on this argument . Some poet has said : Fools rush in where angels fear to tread . At the hazard of being thought one of the fools ...
Page 84
... senators who sat present and heard him , no one rebuked him . Nor am I apprised that any Nebraska newspaper , or any Nebraska orator , in the whole nation has ever yet rebuked him . If this had been said among Marion's men , Southerners ...
... senators who sat present and heard him , no one rebuked him . Nor am I apprised that any Nebraska newspaper , or any Nebraska orator , in the whole nation has ever yet rebuked him . If this had been said among Marion's men , Southerners ...
Page 92
... Senate ; but no one supposed that the Union was in danger . In fact , at the very time Mr. Fill- more uttered this idle charge , the state of things in the United States disproved it . Mr. Pierce , of New Hampshire , and Mr. Bright , of ...
... Senate ; but no one supposed that the Union was in danger . In fact , at the very time Mr. Fill- more uttered this idle charge , the state of things in the United States disproved it . Mr. Pierce , of New Hampshire , and Mr. Bright , of ...
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