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... whole world , judging by past experience , said must inevitably shatter the republic to fragments , and yet , like a gallant ship in full sail , it has run down the terrible obstacle , and gone on triumphant , and is this day stronger ...
... whole world , judging by past experience , said must inevitably shatter the republic to fragments , and yet , like a gallant ship in full sail , it has run down the terrible obstacle , and gone on triumphant , and is this day stronger ...
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... whole life would not amount to more than six months . At nineteen he made a trip to New Orleans as a hired hand on a flat - boat , and on his re- turn he split the timber for a log cabin and built it , and enclosed ten acres of land ...
... whole life would not amount to more than six months . At nineteen he made a trip to New Orleans as a hired hand on a flat - boat , and on his re- turn he split the timber for a log cabin and built it , and enclosed ten acres of land ...
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... whole of this evidence was a perjury . The audience , gradually stirred and changed in the temper of their minds by the previous series of skil fully displayed inconsistencies , rising from hate into sympathy , flamed suddenly up at ...
... whole of this evidence was a perjury . The audience , gradually stirred and changed in the temper of their minds by the previous series of skil fully displayed inconsistencies , rising from hate into sympathy , flamed suddenly up at ...
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... whole country . Henceforth he was all his life a public man ; first a prominent champion in the decisively impor- tant state of Illinois , and afterwards the standard bear- er and the martyr of Freedom in America . That contest in ...
... whole country . Henceforth he was all his life a public man ; first a prominent champion in the decisively impor- tant state of Illinois , and afterwards the standard bear- er and the martyr of Freedom in America . That contest in ...
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... whole heavy headed iron axe go through the wood , -— and so Douglas just skilfully and artistically tipped the edges of heavy masses of falsehood with the cutting force of some undeniable truth . Of moral sensibility Douglas had not ...
... whole heavy headed iron axe go through the wood , -— and so Douglas just skilfully and artistically tipped the edges of heavy masses of falsehood with the cutting force of some undeniable truth . Of moral sensibility Douglas had not ...
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Page 40 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 80 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 78 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Page 81 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 66 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Page 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Page 71 - The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
Page 40 - 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 69 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it.