Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, Volume 64 |
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... arguments laid before them . When he does appeal to emotion , he does it quietly , perhaps even solemnly . The note ... argument is suffused by the speaker's feeling , and when the time comes for the feeling to be directly expressed ...
... arguments laid before them . When he does appeal to emotion , he does it quietly , perhaps even solemnly . The note ... argument is suffused by the speaker's feeling , and when the time comes for the feeling to be directly expressed ...
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... argument in support of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is still to come . That argument is " the sacred right of self - government . " . . . Some poet has said , - " Fools rush in where angels fear to tread . ” At the hazard of ...
... argument in support of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is still to come . That argument is " the sacred right of self - government . " . . . Some poet has said , - " Fools rush in where angels fear to tread . ” At the hazard of ...
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Abraham Lincoln. paraphrases our argument by saying : " The white people of Nebraska are good enough to govern themselves , but they are not good enough to govern a few miser- able negroes ! " Well , I doubt not that the people of ...
Abraham Lincoln. paraphrases our argument by saying : " The white people of Nebraska are good enough to govern themselves , but they are not good enough to govern a few miser- able negroes ! " Well , I doubt not that the people of ...
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... argument of " necessity " was the only argument they ever admitted in favour of slavery , and so far , and so far only as it carried them , did they ever go . They found the institution D existing among us , which they could not help ...
... argument of " necessity " was the only argument they ever admitted in favour of slavery , and so far , and so far only as it carried them , did they ever go . They found the institution D existing among us , which they could not help ...
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... arguments of necessity . Let us return it to the position our fathers gave it , and there let it rest in peace . Let us re - adopt the Declaration of Independence , and with it the practices and policy which harmonize with it . Let ...
... arguments of necessity . Let us return it to the position our fathers gave it , and there let it rest in peace . Let us re - adopt the Declaration of Independence , and with it the practices and policy which harmonize with it . Let ...
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