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... Illinois . There , .at a point ten miles west of De- catur , the Lincolns settled , and Abraham's last filial act before his majority was to split rails for the fencing of the ploughed land of the new homestead . Then he was free and ...
... Illinois . There , .at a point ten miles west of De- catur , the Lincolns settled , and Abraham's last filial act before his majority was to split rails for the fencing of the ploughed land of the new homestead . Then he was free and ...
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... Illinois of that class of legislation so common in new countries : the creation of public debt and the starting of great and ill - considered public improvements , and the licensing of banks with great privileges , and practically no ...
... Illinois of that class of legislation so common in new countries : the creation of public debt and the starting of great and ill - considered public improvements , and the licensing of banks with great privileges , and practically no ...
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... Illinois have been , by a corrupt and persistent body of so - called log rollers , who were on hand to push their schemes by persuasion and corrupt- ion. Stephen A. Douglas . Born 1813. Died 1861 Library Chair used by Lincoln during his ...
... Illinois have been , by a corrupt and persistent body of so - called log rollers , who were on hand to push their schemes by persuasion and corrupt- ion. Stephen A. Douglas . Born 1813. Died 1861 Library Chair used by Lincoln during his ...
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... Illinois met at Van- dalia . Thither Mr. Lincoln went with the intention of being an active member . He had been instructed by his constituents to vote for a system of internal improve- All parts of the state were clamoring for them and ...
... Illinois met at Van- dalia . Thither Mr. Lincoln went with the intention of being an active member . He had been instructed by his constituents to vote for a system of internal improve- All parts of the state were clamoring for them and ...
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... Illinois on the subject of repressing the Abolition movement . Illinois had de- cided once for all , in 1824 , that it was not disposed to become a slave state , but its people had no sympathy No as yet with the movement to interfere ...
... Illinois on the subject of repressing the Abolition movement . Illinois had de- cided once for all , in 1824 , that it was not disposed to become a slave state , but its people had no sympathy No as yet with the movement to interfere ...
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Page 96 - I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 96 - Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Page 95 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 58 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 96 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 58 - ... we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility....
Page 63 - Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Page 40 - 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...
Page 40 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to and conducted by its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through,...
Page 93 - All honor to Jefferson — to the man, who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.