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... Henry Winter Davis , Mar. 18 , 1863 , vol . VIII , p . 229 . A NEW NATION CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation , conceived in liberty , and dedicated to the ...
... Henry Winter Davis , Mar. 18 , 1863 , vol . VIII , p . 229 . A NEW NATION CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation , conceived in liberty , and dedicated to the ...
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... Henry , Nov. 19 , 1858 , vol . V , p . 95 . SNAKE IN THE CHILDREN'S BED If I saw a venomous snake crawling in the road , any man would say I might seize the nearest stick and kill it ; but if I found that snake in bed with my children ...
... Henry , Nov. 19 , 1858 , vol . V , p . 95 . SNAKE IN THE CHILDREN'S BED If I saw a venomous snake crawling in the road , any man would say I might seize the nearest stick and kill it ; but if I found that snake in bed with my children ...
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... Henry Clay . ..I , 219 * Letter from the " Lost Townships ' 99 · · I , 221 ..I , 231 .... Sept. 17 Correspondence about the Lincoln- Shields Duel .... .I , 232 Sept. 19 Memorandum of Instructions to E. H. Merryman .. ..I , 236 Oct. ( 4 ...
... Henry Clay . ..I , 219 * Letter from the " Lost Townships ' 99 · · I , 221 ..I , 231 .... Sept. 17 Correspondence about the Lincoln- Shields Duel .... .I , 232 Sept. 19 Memorandum of Instructions to E. H. Merryman .. ..I , 236 Oct. ( 4 ...
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... Henry Clay , at Spring- field , Ill ..... .II , 155 Opinion on the Illinois Election Law II , 177 1853 May 12 * To Joshua R. Stanford ..... ... II , 178 Oct. 3 To M. Brayman . II , 179 1854 April 1 To Jesse Lincoln .... .II , 180 July ...
... Henry Clay , at Spring- field , Ill ..... .II , 155 Opinion on the Illinois Election Law II , 177 1853 May 12 * To Joshua R. Stanford ..... ... II , 178 Oct. 3 To M. Brayman . II , 179 1854 April 1 To Jesse Lincoln .... .II , 180 July ...
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... Henry C. Whitney . XI , 101 ... Aug. 24 To George Robertson .. To Joshua F. Speed .. .. • II , 278 II , 281 Dec. 13 Dec. ( 15 ) Το . II , 288 Bill against Central R. R. Co. of Illinois ..II , 288 .... 1856 Feb. 13 * To R. P. Morgan ...
... Henry C. Whitney . XI , 101 ... Aug. 24 To George Robertson .. To Joshua F. Speed .. .. • II , 278 II , 281 Dec. 13 Dec. ( 15 ) Το . II , 288 Bill against Central R. R. Co. of Illinois ..II , 288 .... 1856 Feb. 13 * To R. P. Morgan ...
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Page 28 - Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began, by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.
Page 3 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 47 - I cannot but know what you all know, that, without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his country...
Page 39 - Now, I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone.
Page 46 - Cass went in advance of me in picking whortleberries, I guess I surpassed him in charges upon the wild onions. If he saw any live fighting Indians, it was more than I did, but I had a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes; and although I never fainted from loss of blood, I can truly say I was often very hungry.
Page 12 - In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.
Page 47 - ... to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all.
Page 41 - The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word