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... equal . He had been engaged in practice but a short time when he was found habitually on one side or the other of every important case in the circuit . The writer remembers an instance in which many years ago , before he had risen to ...
... equal . He had been engaged in practice but a short time when he was found habitually on one side or the other of every important case in the circuit . The writer remembers an instance in which many years ago , before he had risen to ...
Page 82
... equal thoroughness . He was called slow in arriv- ing at the points of a case . It is probably true that his mind was not one of the quickest in the processes of investigation . He certainly exercised great care in coming to his ...
... equal thoroughness . He was called slow in arriv- ing at the points of a case . It is probably true that his mind was not one of the quickest in the processes of investigation . He certainly exercised great care in coming to his ...
Page 104
... equal if not the superior of any speech deliv- ered during the session . Mr. Lincoln spoke as follows : " MR . CHAIRMAN : Some , if not all , of the gentlemen on the other side of the House , who have addressed the committee within the ...
... equal if not the superior of any speech deliv- ered during the session . Mr. Lincoln spoke as follows : " MR . CHAIRMAN : Some , if not all , of the gentlemen on the other side of the House , who have addressed the committee within the ...
Page 119
... equal to that by which he had been elected to Congress . The general result of the election brought to him great satisfaction . It justified his own judgment touch- ing the candidate's availability , and promised a return to the policy ...
... equal to that by which he had been elected to Congress . The general result of the election brought to him great satisfaction . It justified his own judgment touch- ing the candidate's availability , and promised a return to the policy ...
Page 132
... equals . He was great both at Nisi Prius and before an appellate tribunal . He seized the strong points of a case , and presented them with clearness and great compactness . A vein of humor never deserted him , and he was always able to ...
... equals . He was great both at Nisi Prius and before an appellate tribunal . He seized the strong points of a case , and presented them with clearness and great compactness . A vein of humor never deserted him , and he was always able to ...
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Page 279 - Resolved, that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 282 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts ; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 504 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 315 - Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government ; and so to resist force employed for its destruction, by force for its preservation.
Page 503 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
Page 504 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 315 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
Page 283 - I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government...
Page 279 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 165 - We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen — Stephen, Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance...