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... thought safely , but a storm arose during the night and the rain beat in through a crack in the house , and the book was soaked through and its appearance much soiled . What could he do ? He had no money to pay for the book . He ...
... thought safely , but a storm arose during the night and the rain beat in through a crack in the house , and the book was soaked through and its appearance much soiled . What could he do ? He had no money to pay for the book . He ...
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... thought and imagination were now active . at the age of 19 , had grown to be a tall and powerful young man . He was over six feet in hight , remarkable even among the tall and athletic race of pioneers of that day . The cargo consisted ...
... thought and imagination were now active . at the age of 19 , had grown to be a tall and powerful young man . He was over six feet in hight , remarkable even among the tall and athletic race of pioneers of that day . The cargo consisted ...
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... thought there was an opportunity for employment , and he at once resolved to embrace this timely offering and leave Macon county . He made his way forty miles to the place where the boats were being built , and presenting himself to Mr ...
... thought there was an opportunity for employment , and he at once resolved to embrace this timely offering and leave Macon county . He made his way forty miles to the place where the boats were being built , and presenting himself to Mr ...
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... thought and reflection which gave birth to those principles of free soil and free labor and dedicated a life to freedom and to the immutable principles of justice and humanity . That Providence which seems " to shape our ends , rough ...
... thought and reflection which gave birth to those principles of free soil and free labor and dedicated a life to freedom and to the immutable principles of justice and humanity . That Providence which seems " to shape our ends , rough ...
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... thoughts and purposes fixed on the study of law , and his course of reading and study tended in that direc- tion . Soon after he entered the store he procured Murray's Grammar , and from a Justice of the place he borrowed Blackstone's ...
... thoughts and purposes fixed on the study of law , and his course of reading and study tended in that direc- tion . Soon after he entered the store he procured Murray's Grammar , and from a Justice of the place he borrowed Blackstone's ...
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Page 256 - I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 176 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons...
Page 113 - Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade, by less than all the parties who made it?
Page 117 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 113 - In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the national authority. 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...
Page 296 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 116 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 295 - Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory...
Page 112 - A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
Page 114 - The course here indicated will be followed, unless current events and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper...