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... votes out of 284. This was the only time he was ever beaten before the people . He bought a store and stock of goods on credit , and was appointed Post- master . The store proved unprofitable , and he sold out . All this time he pursued ...
... votes out of 284. This was the only time he was ever beaten before the people . He bought a store and stock of goods on credit , and was appointed Post- master . The store proved unprofitable , and he sold out . All this time he pursued ...
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... votes have since shown they fully appreciated . When the session of the Legislature was over , he set himself to the study of law in good earnest . In 1836 he obtained a law license , and in April , 1837 , he removed to Spring- field ...
... votes have since shown they fully appreciated . When the session of the Legislature was over , he set himself to the study of law in good earnest . In 1836 he obtained a law license , and in April , 1837 , he removed to Spring- field ...
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... voted against the war . The charge was sharply and clearly made by Judge Douglas , at the first of their joint ... vote that Judge Douglas did . You can think as you please as to whether that was consistent . Such is the truth ...
... voted against the war . The charge was sharply and clearly made by Judge Douglas , at the first of their joint ... vote that Judge Douglas did . You can think as you please as to whether that was consistent . Such is the truth ...
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... vote that the war had been righteously begun , " he would not do it . He might have said more than this . He might have said , as was the fact , that he had been a thorn in their sides on this very point ; that he had not only re- fused ...
... vote that the war had been righteously begun , " he would not do it . He might have said more than this . He might have said , as was the fact , that he had been a thorn in their sides on this very point ; that he had not only re- fused ...
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... voting repeatedly against laying on the table without consideration petitions in favor of the abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia , and against the slave - trade . On the question of abolishing Slavery in the District , he ...
... voting repeatedly against laying on the table without consideration petitions in favor of the abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia , and against the slave - trade . On the question of abolishing Slavery in the District , he ...
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Page 463 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 219 - Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 219 - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon* military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 215 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 318 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and when after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.
Page 317 - Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great...
Page 113 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 149 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men...
Page 189 - Resolved, That the United States ought to co-operate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State, in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Page 114 - A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.