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... opinion of your veracity will not permit me for a moment to doubt that you at least believed what you said . I am flat- tered with the personal regard you manifested for me ; but I do hope that , on more mature reflection , you will ...
... opinion of your veracity will not permit me for a moment to doubt that you at least believed what you said . I am flat- tered with the personal regard you manifested for me ; but I do hope that , on more mature reflection , you will ...
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... opinions and those contained in the said resolutions is their reason for entering this pro- test . DAN STONE , A. LINCOLN . [ Letter to Miss Mary Owens , Springfield , Illinois , 7 May 1837. ] Friend Mary : I have commenced two letters ...
... opinions and those contained in the said resolutions is their reason for entering this pro- test . DAN STONE , A. LINCOLN . [ Letter to Miss Mary Owens , Springfield , Illinois , 7 May 1837. ] Friend Mary : I have commenced two letters ...
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... opinion is that you had better not do it . You have not been accustomed to hardship , and it may be more severe than you now imagine . I know you are capable of thinking correctly on any subject , and if you deliberate maturely upon ...
... opinion is that you had better not do it . You have not been accustomed to hardship , and it may be more severe than you now imagine . I know you are capable of thinking correctly on any subject , and if you deliberate maturely upon ...
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... opinion of either her intellect or intention , but , on the contrary , confirmed it in both . All this while , although I was fixed " firm as the surge- repelling rock " in my resolution , I found I was continually repenting the ...
... opinion of either her intellect or intention , but , on the contrary , confirmed it in both . All this while , although I was fixed " firm as the surge- repelling rock " in my resolution , I found I was continually repenting the ...
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... opinion concerning - to involve the two coun- tries in a war , and trusting to escape scrutiny by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding brightness of military glory , -that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood- that ...
... opinion concerning - to involve the two coun- tries in a war , and trusting to escape scrutiny by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding brightness of military glory , -that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood- that ...
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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.