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... expression . The former is an electrifying challenge to conflict ; the latter , an avowal of faith and resignation , phrased with lyric calm and cadenced beauty of expression which Lincoln had never before equaled , and would afterward ...
... expression . The former is an electrifying challenge to conflict ; the latter , an avowal of faith and resignation , phrased with lyric calm and cadenced beauty of expression which Lincoln had never before equaled , and would afterward ...
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... expression of pity for me . " Now he's got me , " thought I. - But when he went on to say that five millions of the expenditure of 1838 , were payments of the French indemnities , which I knew to be untrue ; that five millions had been ...
... expression of pity for me . " Now he's got me , " thought I. - But when he went on to say that five millions of the expenditure of 1838 , were payments of the French indemnities , which I knew to be untrue ; that five millions had been ...
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... expressed in his Allison letter , is as I now read : " The power given by the veto is a high conservative power ; but , in my opinion , should never be exercised , except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution , or manifest ...
... expressed in his Allison letter , is as I now read : " The power given by the veto is a high conservative power ; but , in my opinion , should never be exercised , except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution , or manifest ...
Contents
LINCOLNS DEVELOPMENT AS A WRITER | 1 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
of the House of Representatives at Springfield Illinois | 90 |
Copyright | |
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