The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
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... course of all of you , and are as completely your masters as you are the master of your own negroes . You inquire where I now stand . That is a disputed point . I think I am a Whig ; but others say there are no Whigs , and that I am an ...
... course of all of you , and are as completely your masters as you are the master of your own negroes . You inquire where I now stand . That is a disputed point . I think I am a Whig ; but others say there are no Whigs , and that I am an ...
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... course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward till it will become alike lawful in all the states , old as well as new , North as well as South . " That is the whole paragraph ; and it puzzles me to make my ...
... course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward till it will become alike lawful in all the states , old as well as new , North as well as South . " That is the whole paragraph ; and it puzzles me to make my ...
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... I am pleased to know that , in your judg- ment , the little I did say was not entirely a failure . Of course I knew Mr. Everett would not fail , and yet , while the whole discourse was eminently satisfactory [ 206 ] To Edward Everett.
... I am pleased to know that , in your judg- ment , the little I did say was not entirely a failure . Of course I knew Mr. Everett would not fail , and yet , while the whole discourse was eminently satisfactory [ 206 ] To Edward Everett.
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