Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each, at Chicago, Springfield, Etc. : Also, the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party, and Published at the Times of Their Delivery |
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... GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE SLAVES ! THE EXILES OF FLORIDA . BY JOSHUA R. GIDDINGS , For twenty years a Member of Congress from Ohio . Illustrated with Six Fine Engravings . One Volume , 12mo . 338 Pages . Price , $ 1 . OF THIS BOOK EIGHT ...
... GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE SLAVES ! THE EXILES OF FLORIDA . BY JOSHUA R. GIDDINGS , For twenty years a Member of Congress from Ohio . Illustrated with Six Fine Engravings . One Volume , 12mo . 338 Pages . Price , $ 1 . OF THIS BOOK EIGHT ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... government , " which latter phrase , though expressive of the only rightful basis of any government , was so perverted in this attempted use of it as to amount to just this : That if any one man choose to enslave another , no third man ...
... government , " which latter phrase , though expressive of the only rightful basis of any government , was so perverted in this attempted use of it as to amount to just this : That if any one man choose to enslave another , no third man ...
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... equaled on any occasion . I have not the vanity to believe that it is any personal compliment to me . It is an expression of your devotion to that great principle of self - government , to If which my life for many years past has been 5.
... equaled on any occasion . I have not the vanity to believe that it is any personal compliment to me . It is an expression of your devotion to that great principle of self - government , to If which my life for many years past has been 5.
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... governments , it is that which asserts the exclusive right of a free people to form and adopt their own fundamental ... government have been made in an unworthy cause . Hence , my friends , I regard the Lecompton battle as having been ...
... governments , it is that which asserts the exclusive right of a free people to form and adopt their own fundamental ... government have been made in an unworthy cause . Hence , my friends , I regard the Lecompton battle as having been ...
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