The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
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wwwwwwwwwwwwww wwwwwwww AMONG NG the many papers assiduously preserved by his secretaries Nicolay and Hay is this fragment in Lincoln's handwriting summing up his early views on slavery . FRAGMENT Circa July , 1854 TH HE ant who has ...
wwwwwwwwwwwwww wwwwwwww AMONG NG the many papers assiduously preserved by his secretaries Nicolay and Hay is this fragment in Lincoln's handwriting summing up his early views on slavery . FRAGMENT Circa July , 1854 TH HE ant who has ...
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You say , if you were President , you would send an army and hang the leaders of the Missouri outrages upon the Kansas elections ; still , if Kansas fairly votes herself a slave State she must be admitted , or the Union must be ...
You say , if you were President , you would send an army and hang the leaders of the Missouri outrages upon the Kansas elections ; still , if Kansas fairly votes herself a slave State she must be admitted , or the Union must be ...
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Union could not stand half slave and half free " ; and also what I meant when I said a house divided against itself could not stand ” is received and I very cheerfully answer it as plainly as I may be able .
Union could not stand half slave and half free " ; and also what I meant when I said a house divided against itself could not stand ” is received and I very cheerfully answer it as plainly as I may be able .
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Contents
POSTMASTER LAWYER REPRESENTATIVE OF | 1 |
To William H Herndon | 16 |
To Stephen A Douglas | 55 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | H. Jack Lang |
| Publisher | Greenberg, 1941 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 17 Nov 2010 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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