Illustrated Life, Services, Martyrdom, and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln ...: With a Portrait of President Lincoln, and Other Illustrative Engravings of the Scene of the Assassination, Etc. ...David Brainerd Williamson |
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... side of the Sangamon river , and about ten miles west of Decatur . A log cabin was immediately erected , and Abe proceeded to split the rails for the fence with which the lot was to be enclosed . As a rail - splitter , as a tiller of ...
... side of the Sangamon river , and about ten miles west of Decatur . A log cabin was immediately erected , and Abe proceeded to split the rails for the fence with which the lot was to be enclosed . As a rail - splitter , as a tiller of ...
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... side . Do you accept the challenge ? No ? Then you really believe that the principle which our fathers , who framed the government under which we live , thought so clearly right as to adopt it , and indorse it again and again upon their ...
... side . Do you accept the challenge ? No ? Then you really believe that the principle which our fathers , who framed the government under which we live , thought so clearly right as to adopt it , and indorse it again and again upon their ...
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... sides of the river . It is only the different understanding of that instru . ment that causes difficulties . The only dispute is . What are their rights ? If the majority should not rule who should be the judge ? Where is such a judge ...
... sides of the river . It is only the different understanding of that instru . ment that causes difficulties . The only dispute is . What are their rights ? If the majority should not rule who should be the judge ? Where is such a judge ...
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... sides of the line , the trouble wili come to an end , and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this Government have been ...
... sides of the line , the trouble wili come to an end , and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this Government have been ...
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... side or the other . If a minority in such a case will secede rather than acquiesce , they make a precedent which in turn will ruin and divide them , for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be ...
... side or the other . If a minority in such a case will secede rather than acquiesce , they make a precedent which in turn will ruin and divide them , for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be ...
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