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... of the United States two years later . What could be more captivating to an out - door audience than Lincoln's description " of the two per- sons who stand before the people of the State as can- didates for the Senate , " to quote his ...
... of the United States two years later . What could be more captivating to an out - door audience than Lincoln's description " of the two per- sons who stand before the people of the State as can- didates for the Senate , " to quote his ...
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... OF THE REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION BY WHICH MR . LINCOLN HAD BEEN NAMED AS THEIR CANDIDATE FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR ... United States Senate as the successor of Stephen A. Douglas . " Eight o'clock in the evening of the same day this ...
... OF THE REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION BY WHICH MR . LINCOLN HAD BEEN NAMED AS THEIR CANDIDATE FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR ... United States Senate as the successor of Stephen A. Douglas . " Eight o'clock in the evening of the same day this ...
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Abraham Lincoln. argued in the Supreme Court of the United States ; but the decision of it was deferred until after the election . Still , before the election , Senator Trumbull , on the floor of the Senate , requested the leading advocate ...
Abraham Lincoln. argued in the Supreme Court of the United States ; but the decision of it was deferred until after the election . Still , before the election , Senator Trumbull , on the floor of the Senate , requested the leading advocate ...
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Abraham Lincoln. is one of the things the court can decide , but can never give an intelligible reason for . Yours very ... United States Senate , and also of Harris , of our district , to the House of Representatives , and that you are ...
Abraham Lincoln. is one of the things the court can decide , but can never give an intelligible reason for . Yours very ... United States Senate , and also of Harris , of our district , to the House of Representatives , and that you are ...
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... United States Senate ; I make no such hypocritical pretense , but I do say to you that in this mighty issue , it is nothing to you- nothing to the mass of the people of the nation- whether or not Judge Douglas or myself shall ever be ...
... United States Senate ; I make no such hypocritical pretense , but I do say to you that in this mighty issue , it is nothing to you- nothing to the mass of the people of the nation- whether or not Judge Douglas or myself shall ever be ...
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Page 173 - 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. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 242 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page xxxv - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 30 - 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 344 - The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction; and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.
Page xxiii - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page xiii - If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said I am in height six feet four inches, nearly ; lean in flesh, weighing, on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds ; dark complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected.
Page xxiv - I remark that if this be done, I must do it. When a general line of policy is adopted, I apprehend there is no danger of its being changed without good reason, or continuing to be a subject of unnecessary debate; still, upon points arising in its progress, I wish, and suppose I am entitled to have, the advice of all the Cabinet.
Page xiv - But, if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.
Page 172 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.