The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished, Volume 2Lincoln Historical Society, 1924 - Presidents |
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... hands of his friends . He frankly announced his desire and managed his own canvass . There was no reason , in Lincoln's opin- ion , for concealing political ambition . He recognized , at the same time , the legitimacy of the ambition of ...
... hands of his friends . He frankly announced his desire and managed his own canvass . There was no reason , in Lincoln's opin- ion , for concealing political ambition . He recognized , at the same time , the legitimacy of the ambition of ...
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... hand , I never could very clearly see how the annexation would augment the evil of slavery . It always seemed to me that slaves would be taken there in about equal numbers , with or without annexation . And if more were taken because of ...
... hand , I never could very clearly see how the annexation would augment the evil of slavery . It always seemed to me that slaves would be taken there in about equal numbers , with or without annexation . And if more were taken because of ...
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... hands , and begin with the words , " That reminds me , ' and proceed . Everybody prepared for the ex- plosion sure to follow . I recall with vivid pleasure the scene of merriment at the dinner after his first speech in the House of ...
... hands , and begin with the words , " That reminds me , ' and proceed . Everybody prepared for the ex- plosion sure to follow . I recall with vivid pleasure the scene of merriment at the dinner after his first speech in the House of ...
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... hands until Mexico herself became the aggressor , by invading our soil in hostile array and shed- ding the blood of our citizens . ' " And yet again , in his message of December 7 , 1847 , that " The Mexican Government refused even to ...
... hands until Mexico herself became the aggressor , by invading our soil in hostile array and shed- ding the blood of our citizens . ' " And yet again , in his message of December 7 , 1847 , that " The Mexican Government refused even to ...
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... hands - some time before he was eighteen years old he had gathered a large amount of practi- cal information about the question which he was able then to weigh in the light of the great principles of the Constitution , the ordinance of ...
... hands - some time before he was eighteen years old he had gathered a large amount of practi- cal information about the question which he was able then to weigh in the light of the great principles of the Constitution , the ordinance of ...
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Page 201 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS...
Page 158 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now" I fully indorse this, and I adopt it as a text for this discourse.
Page 133 - We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places, and by different workmen — Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James, for instance...
Page 129 - ... part based on assumed historical facts which are not really true ; or, if wanting in some of these, it had been before the court more than once, and had there been affirmed and re-affirmed through a course of years, it then might be, perhaps would be, factious, nay, even revolutionary, not to acquiesce in it as a precedent. But when, as is true, we find it wanting in all these claims to the public confidence, it is not resistance, it is not factious, it is not even disrespectful, to treat it...
Page 133 - ... piece in — in such a case we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck. It should not be overlooked that, by the Nebraska bill, the people of a State as well as Territory were to be left "perfectly free," "subject only to the Constitution.
Page 66 - Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses and waste of time. As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man.
Page 159 - Republicans desire — in relation to slavery. AS those fathers marked it, so let it be again marked, as an evil not to be extended, but to be tolerated and protected only because of, and so far as, its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity. Let all the guaranties those fathers gave it be not grudgingly, but fully and fairly maintained. For this Republicans contend, and with this, so far as I know or believe, they will be content. And now, if they would listen...
Page 171 - Herewith is a little sketch, as you requested. There is not much of it, for the reason, I suppose, that there is not much of me.
Page 106 - I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution.
Page 36 - By the way, a fine example was presented on board the boat for contemplating the effect of condition upon human happiness. A gentleman had purchased twelve negroes in different parts of Kentucky, and was taking them to a farm in the South. They were chained six and six together. A small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each, and this fastened to the main chain by a shorter one, at a convenient distance from the others, so that the negroes were strung together precisely like so many fish upon...