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... tion . His mother was the daughter of a prosperous Vermont farmer . Before he was three months old his father , whose only fortune was his practice , suddenly died . A bachelor brother of the widow took the family to his home near ...
... tion . His mother was the daughter of a prosperous Vermont farmer . Before he was three months old his father , whose only fortune was his practice , suddenly died . A bachelor brother of the widow took the family to his home near ...
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... tion consisted chiefly of New England Puritans and Whigs . But the prairies were settled by a race of thoroughly Democratic pioneers to whom the rough victor at New Orleans was a hero in war and a mas- ter in statecraft . Douglas was an ...
... tion consisted chiefly of New England Puritans and Whigs . But the prairies were settled by a race of thoroughly Democratic pioneers to whom the rough victor at New Orleans was a hero in war and a mas- ter in statecraft . Douglas was an ...
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... tion , that it is hard to realize that half a century ago the strongest bowed to its will . Douglas was in no sense a reformer or the preacher of a crusade . He was ready to cheerfully accept the ethics of the time without criticism or ...
... tion , that it is hard to realize that half a century ago the strongest bowed to its will . Douglas was in no sense a reformer or the preacher of a crusade . He was ready to cheerfully accept the ethics of the time without criticism or ...
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... tion of resolutions defining the opinions of various segments of distracted parties and revealing the chasm that was opening between the friends and opponents of slavery . On the 21st of January the rival Whig chiefs of the Senate held ...
... tion of resolutions defining the opinions of various segments of distracted parties and revealing the chasm that was opening between the friends and opponents of slavery . On the 21st of January the rival Whig chiefs of the Senate held ...
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... tion , to which their first duty was due ; that slavery was a violation of this higher law and hence the Constitution itself was powerless to establish it in the Territories . He On the 13th and 14th Douglas spoke . The 42 LIFE OF ...
... tion , to which their first duty was due ; that slavery was a violation of this higher law and hence the Constitution itself was powerless to establish it in the Territories . He On the 13th and 14th Douglas spoke . The 42 LIFE OF ...
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Page 146 - 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 push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 177 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 146 - We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen, Stephen, Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance...
Page 181 - Judge's sitting down on that very bench as one of the five new judges to break down the four old ones. It was in this way precisely that he got his title of judge, Now, when the judge tells me that men appointed conditionally to sit as members of a court will have to be catechised beforehand upon some subject, I say, " You know, Judge ; you have tried it.
Page 177 - This is the whole of it, and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro, is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.
Page 163 - Hon. SA DOUGLAS- My Dear Sir: Will it be agreeable to you to make an arrangement for you and myself to divide time, and address the same audiences the present canvass ? Mr. Judd, who will hand you this, is authorized to receive your answer ; and, if agreeable to you, to enter into the terms of such arrangement. Your obedient servant, A. LINCOLN.
Page 180 - Illinois, and I know that Judge Douglas will not deny that he was then in favor of overslaughing that decision by the mode of adding five new judges, so as to vote down the four old ones. Not only so, but it ended in the Judge's sitting down on that very bench as one of the five new judges to break down the four old ones.
Page 233 - The conspiracy is now known. Armies have been raised, war is levied to accomplish it. There are only two sides to the question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots — or traitors.
Page 146 - ... bring such piece in— in such a case we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck. It should not be overlooked that, by the Nebraska bill, the people of a State as well as Territory were to be left "perfectly free," "subject only to the Constitution.
Page 174 - He was then just as good at telling an anecdote as now. He could beat any of the boys wrestling, or running a footrace, in pitching quoits or tossing a copper; could ruin more liquor than all the boys of the town together...