Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... believe , as I do , that a grievous wrong has been suffered , let me entreat that this arbitrament be abided in good faith , that no hindrance or delay be interposed to the execution of the law , but that by faithful adherence to its ...
... believe , as I do , that a grievous wrong has been suffered , let me entreat that this arbitrament be abided in good faith , that no hindrance or delay be interposed to the execution of the law , but that by faithful adherence to its ...
Page 58
... believe that the past is the earnest of the future , and that during the rolling years and centuries the incumbents of the great office the chosen successors of Washington and of Lincoln - in the near and in the remote future , will ...
... believe that the past is the earnest of the future , and that during the rolling years and centuries the incumbents of the great office the chosen successors of Washington and of Lincoln - in the near and in the remote future , will ...
Page 76
... believe that not the least of the public services of Hamilton was his unself- ish interposition at the crucial moment mentioned . The possibility of similar complication again arising in the elec- tion of the President was soon ...
... believe that not the least of the public services of Hamilton was his unself- ish interposition at the crucial moment mentioned . The possibility of similar complication again arising in the elec- tion of the President was soon ...
Page 109
... believe this country cannot endure permanently half slave and half free . I do not expect the Union to be dis- solved 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 ...
... believe this country cannot endure permanently half slave and half free . I do not expect the Union to be dis- solved 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 ...
Page 117
... believe that this new doctrine preached by Mr. Lincoln will dissolve the Union if it succeeds ; trying to array all the Northern States in one body against the Southern ; to excite a sectional war between the free States and the slave ...
... believe that this new doctrine preached by Mr. Lincoln will dissolve the Union if it succeeds ; trying to array all the Northern States in one body against the Southern ; to excite a sectional war between the free States and the slave ...
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