The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on Steel. To which is Added a Biographical Sketch of Hon. Hannibal HamlinDerby & Jackson, 1860 - 354 pages |
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... speak and write as well as he now does . He studied , and nearly mastered , the six books of Euclid since he was a member of Congress . He regrets his limited means of education , and does what he can to supply the want of early ...
... speak and write as well as he now does . He studied , and nearly mastered , the six books of Euclid since he was a member of Congress . He regrets his limited means of education , and does what he can to supply the want of early ...
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... speaking for no other than myself - and while I am willing to present this to the whole world as my own justification , I rest on these propositions : 1st . That when this Constitu- tion was adopted , nobody looked for any new acquisi ...
... speaking for no other than myself - and while I am willing to present this to the whole world as my own justification , I rest on these propositions : 1st . That when this Constitu- tion was adopted , nobody looked for any new acquisi ...
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... speaking of the case , recommended that- " The Committee on Military Affairs were unable to unite in a report upon the case . Five slaveholders , representing slave property on this floor , and consti- tuting a majority of the committee ...
... speaking of the case , recommended that- " The Committee on Military Affairs were unable to unite in a report upon the case . Five slaveholders , representing slave property on this floor , and consti- tuting a majority of the committee ...
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... speaking on this subject , in his own peculiar and fervid eloquence , declared that allegiance to that Power which gives us the forms of men , commands us to maintain the rights of men ; and never yet was this truth dismissed from the ...
... speaking on this subject , in his own peculiar and fervid eloquence , declared that allegiance to that Power which gives us the forms of men , commands us to maintain the rights of men ; and never yet was this truth dismissed from the ...
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... speak two or three hours , and the latter reply in just as little or as much time as he chose . Mr. Lincoln took the stand at two o'clock - a large crowd in atten- dance , and Mr. Douglas seated on a small platform in front of the desk ...
... speak two or three hours , and the latter reply in just as little or as much time as he chose . Mr. Lincoln took the stand at two o'clock - a large crowd in atten- dance , and Mr. Douglas seated on a small platform in front of the desk ...
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Page 153 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 122 - 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 221 - I hold that notwithstanding all this there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Page 190 - 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 other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 92 - 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 234 - This they said and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 158 - James, for instance, — and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortices exactly fitting, and all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few, not omitting even...
Page 221 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Page 309 - King showed that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, was violated by Congress prohibiting slavery in federal territory; while Mr.
Page 315 - Government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better, than we do now," speak as they spoke, and act as they acted upon it. This is all Republicans ask— all Republicans desire— in relation to slavery. As those fathers marked it, so let it be again marked, as an evil not to be extended, but to be tolerated and protected only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity. Let all the guaranties those fathers...