Anecdotal LincolnPaul Selby Thompson & Thomas, 1900 - 469 pages |
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... interesting , entertaining , and concise work ever published on Lincoln . The biography contained in this work was written by the Hon . Paul Selby , a personal friend of Lincoln , and for many years Editor of the State Journal at ...
... interesting , entertaining , and concise work ever published on Lincoln . The biography contained in this work was written by the Hon . Paul Selby , a personal friend of Lincoln , and for many years Editor of the State Journal at ...
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... interesting , but the sermon was still grinding on . The next movement on the preacher's part was for the collar button , and with one sweep of his arm off came the tow linen shirt . The congregation sat for an instant as if dazed ; at ...
... interesting , but the sermon was still grinding on . The next movement on the preacher's part was for the collar button , and with one sweep of his arm off came the tow linen shirt . The congregation sat for an instant as if dazed ; at ...
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... interesting story was told by Mr. Lin- coln to Mr. Seward and a few friends one evening in the Executive Mansion at Washington . The Presi- dent said : " Seward , you never heard , did you , how I earned my first dollar ? " " No ...
... interesting story was told by Mr. Lin- coln to Mr. Seward and a few friends one evening in the Executive Mansion at Washington . The Presi- dent said : " Seward , you never heard , did you , how I earned my first dollar ? " " No ...
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... interesting to recall the fact that at one time Mr. Lincoln seriously took into consideration the project of learning the blacksmith's trade . He was without means , and felt the immediate necessity of undertaking some business that ...
... interesting to recall the fact that at one time Mr. Lincoln seriously took into consideration the project of learning the blacksmith's trade . He was without means , and felt the immediate necessity of undertaking some business that ...
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... interesting for him , and he was glad to retreat from the mansion . He did not return till very late at night , and then slipped quietly in at a rear door . " NOTHING TO WEAR , " A lady reader or elocutionist came to Springfield in 1857 ...
... interesting for him , and he was glad to retreat from the mansion . He did not return till very late at night , and then slipped quietly in at a rear door . " NOTHING TO WEAR , " A lady reader or elocutionist came to Springfield in 1857 ...
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Anecdotal Lincoln: Speeches, Stories, and Yarns of the Immortal Abe ... Paul Selby No preview available - 2015 |
Anecdotal Lincoln: Speeches, Stories, and Yarns of the Immortal Abe ... Paul Selby No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 426 - 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 365 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 430 - 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.
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Page 434 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers...
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