Letters and Addresses of Abraham LincolnUnit Book Publishing Company, 1903 - 389 pages |
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Page 55
... practical , question , pressing closely upon us . And yet it is a question which the President seems never to have thought of . As to the mode of terminating the war and securing peace , the President is equally wandering and indefinite ...
... practical , question , pressing closely upon us . And yet it is a question which the President seems never to have thought of . As to the mode of terminating the war and securing peace , the President is equally wandering and indefinite ...
Page 88
... practical one . In your assumption that there may be a fair decision of the slavery question in Kan- sas , I plainly see you and I would differ about the Nebraska law . I look upon that enactment not as a law , but as a violence from ...
... practical one . In your assumption that there may be a fair decision of the slavery question in Kan- sas , I plainly see you and I would differ about the Nebraska law . I look upon that enactment not as a law , but as a violence from ...
Page 94
... practical equality of all men . The late presidential election was a struggle by one party to discard that central idea and to substitute for it the op- posite idea that slavery is right in the abstract , the work- ings of which as a ...
... practical equality of all men . The late presidential election was a struggle by one party to discard that central idea and to substitute for it the op- posite idea that slavery is right in the abstract , the work- ings of which as a ...
Page 100
... practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain ; and it was placed in the Declaration not for that , but for future use . Its authors meant it to be - as , thank God , it is now proving itself- stumbling - block to all ...
... practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain ; and it was placed in the Declaration not for that , but for future use . Its authors meant it to be - as , thank God , it is now proving itself- stumbling - block to all ...
Page 102
... practical use now - mere rubbish - old wadding left to rot on the battle - field after the victory is won . I understand you are preparing to celebrate the " Fourth , ” to - morrow week . What for ? The doings of that day had no ...
... practical use now - mere rubbish - old wadding left to rot on the battle - field after the victory is won . I understand you are preparing to celebrate the " Fourth , ” to - morrow week . What for ? The doings of that day had no ...
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