Letters and Addresses of Abraham LincolnUnit Book Publishing Company, 1903 - 389 pages |
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Page 75
... republican example of its just influence in the world ; enables the enemies of free insti- tutions with plausibility to taunt us as hypocrites ; causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity ; and especially because it ...
... republican example of its just influence in the world ; enables the enemies of free insti- tutions with plausibility to taunt us as hypocrites ; causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity ; and especially because it ...
Page 84
... republican robe is soiled and trailed in the dust . Let us repurify it . Let us turn and wash it white in the spirit , if not the blood , of the Revolution . Let us turn slavery from its claims of " moral right " back 84 LETTERS AND ...
... republican robe is soiled and trailed in the dust . Let us repurify it . Let us turn and wash it white in the spirit , if not the blood , of the Revolution . Let us turn slavery from its claims of " moral right " back 84 LETTERS AND ...
Page 86
... republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves . Our political problem now is , " Can we as a nation con- tinue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free ? " The problem is too mighty ...
... republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves . Our political problem now is , " Can we as a nation con- tinue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free ? " The problem is too mighty ...
Page 93
... Republican banquet in Chicago , 10 December 1856. ] Like a We have another annual presidential message . rejected lover making merry at the wedding of his rival , the President felicitates himself hugely over the late presi- dential ...
... Republican banquet in Chicago , 10 December 1856. ] Like a We have another annual presidential message . rejected lover making merry at the wedding of his rival , the President felicitates himself hugely over the late presi- dential ...
Page 99
... Republicans insisting that the Dec- laration of Independence includes all men , black as well as white , and forthwith he boldly denies that it includes negroes at all , and proceeds to argue gravely that all who contend it does , do so ...
... Republicans insisting that the Dec- laration of Independence includes all men , black as well as white , and forthwith he boldly denies that it includes negroes at all , and proceeds to argue gravely that all who contend it does , do so ...
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