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... the protection of all law and all good citizens , or is wrong , and therefore proper to be prohibited by legal enactments ; and in neither case is the interposition of mob law either necessary , justifiable , or excusable . cases .
... the protection of all law and all good citizens , or is wrong , and therefore proper to be prohibited by legal enactments ; and in neither case is the interposition of mob law either necessary , justifiable , or excusable . cases .
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Mr. Lamborn insists that the difference between the Van Buren party and the Whigs is that although the former sometimes err in practice , they are always correct in principle , whereas the latter are wrong in principle ; and , better to ...
Mr. Lamborn insists that the difference between the Van Buren party and the Whigs is that although the former sometimes err in practice , they are always correct in principle , whereas the latter are wrong in principle ; and , better to ...
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You know I do not mean wrong . I have been quite clear of “ hypo ... But you will always hereafter be on ground that I have never occupied , and consequently , if advice were needed , I might advise wrong .
You know I do not mean wrong . I have been quite clear of “ hypo ... But you will always hereafter be on ground that I have never occupied , and consequently , if advice were needed , I might advise wrong .
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But if he cannot or will not do this , if on any pretense or no pretense he shall refuse or omit it — then I shall be fully convinced of what I more than suspect already — that he is deeply conscious of being in the wrong ; that he ...
But if he cannot or will not do this , if on any pretense or no pretense he shall refuse or omit it — then I shall be fully convinced of what I more than suspect already — that he is deeply conscious of being in the wrong ; that he ...
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I think , and shall try to show , that it is wrong - wrong in its direct effect , letting slavery into Kansas and Nebraska , and wrong in its prospective principle , allowing it to spread to every other part of the wide world where men ...
I think , and shall try to show , that it is wrong - wrong in its direct effect , letting slavery into Kansas and Nebraska , and wrong in its prospective principle , allowing it to spread to every other part of the wide world where men ...
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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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