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... 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 . The first I thought was not serious enough , and ...
... 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 . The first I thought was not serious enough , and ...
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... Springfield . I am afraid you would not be satis- fied . There is a great deal of flourishing about in carriages here , which it would be your doom to see without sharing it . You would have to be poor , without the means of hiding your ...
... Springfield . I am afraid you would not be satis- fied . There is a great deal of flourishing about in carriages here , which it would be your doom to see without sharing it . You would have to be poor , without the means of hiding your ...
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... Springfield , Illinois , 1 April 1838. ] Dear Madam : Without apologizing for being egotistical , I shall make the history of so much of my life as has elapsed since I saw you the subject of this letter . And , by the way , I now ...
... Springfield , Illinois , 1 April 1838. ] Dear Madam : Without apologizing for being egotistical , I shall make the history of so much of my life as has elapsed since I saw you the subject of this letter . And , by the way , I now ...
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... Springfield , Illinois , 20 ( ? ) December 1839. ] 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 princi- ple ...
... Springfield , Illinois , 20 ( ? ) December 1839. ] 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 princi- ple ...
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... Springfield , Illinois , 1 March 1840. ] Dear Stuart : I have never seen the prospects of our party so bright in these parts as they are now . We shall carry this county by a larger majority than we did in 1836 , when you ran against ...
... Springfield , Illinois , 1 March 1840. ] Dear Stuart : I have never seen the prospects of our party so bright in these parts as they are now . We shall carry this county by a larger majority than we did in 1836 , when you ran against ...
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Page 183 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government...
Page 121 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people...
Page 288 - Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.
Page 273 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 254 - A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. "One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
Page 114 - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 134 - It is the eternal struggle between these two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, ' You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Page 105 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 187 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 298 - There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age, I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three, but that was all.