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are meagre . none of Mr. Lincoln's family seems to have been aware of the preciousness of long pedigrees , so that the records The first that is known of his forefathers is that they were Quakers , who may have assisted in those shrewd ...
are meagre . none of Mr. Lincoln's family seems to have been aware of the preciousness of long pedigrees , so that the records The first that is known of his forefathers is that they were Quakers , who may have assisted in those shrewd ...
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Lincoln's mother was , like his father , Virginian ; but beyond this , little or nothing is known of her . From both his parents young Lincoln inherited an iron con་ stitution and a decent poverty . From his father came LIFE AND ...
Lincoln's mother was , like his father , Virginian ; but beyond this , little or nothing is known of her . From both his parents young Lincoln inherited an iron con་ stitution and a decent poverty . From his father came LIFE AND ...
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... by the trifling consideration that he had no flatboat built . He offered to Lincoln and each of his Now a well known railroad man in Illinois . friends , twelve dollars a month for the time they 26 LIFE AND SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... by the trifling consideration that he had no flatboat built . He offered to Lincoln and each of his Now a well known railroad man in Illinois . friends , twelve dollars a month for the time they 26 LIFE AND SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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His dress at this time consisted of a pair of blue jeans trowsers indefinitely rolled up , a cotton shirt , striped white and blue , ( of the sort known in song and tradition as hickory , ) and a ...
His dress at this time consisted of a pair of blue jeans trowsers indefinitely rolled up , a cotton shirt , striped white and blue , ( of the sort known in song and tradition as hickory , ) and a ...
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When , therefore , he began to make rapid . progress in his intellectual pursuits , it surprised none of them - least of all , Lincoln's shrewd patron , Offutt , who had been known to declare , with pardonable enthusiasm , that Lincoln ...
When , therefore , he began to make rapid . progress in his intellectual pursuits , it surprised none of them - least of all , Lincoln's shrewd patron , Offutt , who had been known to declare , with pardonable enthusiasm , that Lincoln ...
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Page 347 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Page 100 - 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 239 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 243 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Page 216 - 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 217 - I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Page 181 - 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 enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 202 - But you say you are conservative — eminently conservative — while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who framed the government under which we live...
Page 189 - It is this : Does the proper division of local from Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, forbid our Federal Government to control as to slavery in our Federal Territories ? " Upon this, Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and Republicans the negative.
Page 194 - ... their oath to support the Constitution, would have constrained them to oppose the prohibition. Again, George Washington, another of the "thirty-nine...