The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and DeathIncludes added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by F.B. Carpenter. |
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Page 27
... liberty to publish both , if you choose . Very respectfully , Col. ROBERT ALLEN . A. LINCOLN . It was in this year ( 1836 ) that Mr. Lincoln first became acquainted with Mr. Douglas , whom he was destined to meet in so many hotly ...
... liberty to publish both , if you choose . Very respectfully , Col. ROBERT ALLEN . A. LINCOLN . It was in this year ( 1836 ) that Mr. Lincoln first became acquainted with Mr. Douglas , whom he was destined to meet in so many hotly ...
Page 63
... liberty and ultimate emancipation , that they must , if they would do this , go back to the era of our independence , and muzzle the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return ; they must blow out the moral lights around us ; they ...
... liberty and ultimate emancipation , that they must , if they would do this , go back to the era of our independence , and muzzle the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return ; they must blow out the moral lights around us ; they ...
Page 64
... liberty in this American people . And now I will only say , that when , by all these means and appliances , Judge Douglas shall succeed in bringing public sen- timent to an exact accordance with his own views - when these vast as ...
... liberty in this American people . And now I will only say , that when , by all these means and appliances , Judge Douglas shall succeed in bringing public sen- timent to an exact accordance with his own views - when these vast as ...
Page 68
... liberty - that he is in favor of eradicating , of pressing out of view , the questions of preference in this country for free or slave institutions ; and consequently every sentiment he utters discards the idea that there is any wrong ...
... liberty - that he is in favor of eradicating , of pressing out of view , the questions of preference in this country for free or slave institutions ; and consequently every sentiment he utters discards the idea that there is any wrong ...
Page 74
... liberty and prosperity . What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity , save and except this institution of slavery ? If this is true , how do you propose to improve the condition of things by enlarging slavery - by spreading it ...
... liberty and prosperity . What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity , save and except this institution of slavery ? If this is true , how do you propose to improve the condition of things by enlarging slavery - by spreading it ...
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