The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished, Volume 2Lincoln Historical Society, 1924 - Presidents |
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... sent around , " the candidates are here , " and the men of the neighborhood gathered to hear the dis- cussion , which was carried on in the most informal way , the candidates frequently sitting tipped back against the side of the house ...
... sent around , " the candidates are here , " and the men of the neighborhood gathered to hear the dis- cussion , which was carried on in the most informal way , the candidates frequently sitting tipped back against the side of the house ...
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... sent to Texas and continued in slavery that otherwise might have been liberated . To what- ever extent this may be true , I think annexation an evil . I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states , due to the Union of the ...
... sent to Texas and continued in slavery that otherwise might have been liberated . To what- ever extent this may be true , I think annexation an evil . I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states , due to the Union of the ...
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... sent into that settlement by the military order of the President , through the Secretary of War . " Eighth . Whether the military force of the United States was or was not so sent into that settlement after General Taylor had more than ...
... sent into that settlement by the military order of the President , through the Secretary of War . " Eighth . Whether the military force of the United States was or was not so sent into that settlement after General Taylor had more than ...
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... sent him in which the author claimed that " in view of all the facts " the government of the United States had committed no aggression in Mexico . " Not in view of all the facts , " Lincoln wrote him . " There are facts which you have ...
... sent him in which the author claimed that " in view of all the facts " the government of the United States had committed no aggression in Mexico . " Not in view of all the facts , " Lincoln wrote him . " There are facts which you have ...
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... sent their suffering for a special purpose . When Speed finally acknowledged himself happily married , Lin- coln wrote to him : " I always was superstitious ; I be- lieve God made me one of the instruments of bringing your Fanny and you ...
... sent their suffering for a special purpose . When Speed finally acknowledged himself happily married , Lin- coln wrote to him : " I always was superstitious ; I be- lieve God made me one of the instruments of bringing your Fanny and you ...
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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...