Letters and Addresses of Abraham LincolnUnit Book Publishing Company, 1903 - 389 pages |
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Page 9
... cause may be , it is common to the whole country . It would be tedious as well as useless to recount the horrors of all of them . Those happening in the State of Mississippi and at St. Louis are perhaps the most dangerous in example and ...
... cause may be , it is common to the whole country . It would be tedious as well as useless to recount the horrors of all of them . Those happening in the State of Mississippi and at St. Louis are perhaps the most dangerous in example and ...
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... causes , dangerous in their ten- dency , which have not existed heretofore , and which are not too insignificant to merit attention . That our government should have been maintained in its original form , from its establishment until ...
... causes , dangerous in their ten- dency , which have not existed heretofore , and which are not too insignificant to merit attention . That our government should have been maintained in its original form , from its establishment until ...
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... causes - that of establishing and maintaining civil and religious liberty . But this state of feeling must fade , is fading , has faded , with the circumstances that produced it . I do not mean to say that the scenes of the Revolution ...
... causes - that of establishing and maintaining civil and religious liberty . But this state of feeling must fade , is fading , has faded , with the circumstances that produced it . I do not mean to say that the scenes of the Revolution ...
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... , may be ; bow to it I never will . The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just ; it shall not deter me . If ever I feel the 26 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
... , may be ; bow to it I never will . The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just ; it shall not deter me . If ever I feel the 26 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
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... cause of my country , deserted by all the world beside , and I standing up boldly and alone , and hurling defiance at her victorious op- pressors . Here , without contemplating consequences , be- fore high heaven and in the face of the ...
... cause of my country , deserted by all the world beside , and I standing up boldly and alone , and hurling defiance at her victorious op- pressors . Here , without contemplating consequences , be- fore high heaven and in the face of the ...
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