Abraham LincolnHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - Presidents |
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... speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in the national House of Repre- sentatives , and wrote to ask facts as to his parent- age . The response 1 stated substantially what was afterward sent to Mr. Fell , above quoted . Mr. Solomon Lincoln ...
... speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in the national House of Repre- sentatives , and wrote to ask facts as to his parent- age . The response 1 stated substantially what was afterward sent to Mr. Fell , above quoted . Mr. Solomon Lincoln ...
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... speech- making to any who were near at the moment of inspiration . There is abundant evidence , also , that already Lincoln was regarded as a witty fel- low , a rare mimic , and teller of jokes and stories ; and therefore was the ...
... speech- making to any who were near at the moment of inspiration . There is abundant evidence , also , that already Lincoln was regarded as a witty fel- low , a rare mimic , and teller of jokes and stories ; and therefore was the ...
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... speech - makings , at weddings , whereat the coarse proceedings would not nowadays bear recital ; at log - rollings , where the neighbors gathered to col- lect the logs of a newly cleared lot for burning , and at house - raisings ...
... speech - makings , at weddings , whereat the coarse proceedings would not nowadays bear recital ; at log - rollings , where the neighbors gathered to col- lect the logs of a newly cleared lot for burning , and at house - raisings ...
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... speech , ” . an agreeable statement , for which one would — like to have some authority . 2 Ford , Hist . of Illinois , 82-86 . dates individually . Political discussion meant un- stinted praise and THE RAW MATERIAL . 29.
... speech , ” . an agreeable statement , for which one would — like to have some authority . 2 Ford , Hist . of Illinois , 82-86 . dates individually . Political discussion meant un- stinted praise and THE RAW MATERIAL . 29.
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... speech . Hand in hand , as has so long been the custom in our country , law and politics moved among the people , who had an inborn , inherited taste for both ; these stimulated and educated the settlers in a way that only Americans can ...
... speech . Hand in hand , as has so long been the custom in our country , law and politics moved among the people , who had an inborn , inherited taste for both ; these stimulated and educated the settlers in a way that only Americans can ...
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Page 135 - 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 95 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 155 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the National Territories, and to overrun us here in these Free States? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively.
Page 118 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; 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...
Page 76 - Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.
Page 136 - I hold that notwithstanding all this there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Page 223 - ... rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery, subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. "This, our new government, is the first in the history of the world based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Page 221 - It follows from these views that no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence within any state or states against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 154 - If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension - its enlargement. All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise facts upon...
Page 293 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question, whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.