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... original flavor , dis- tinctive and natural , untainted by conventional culture , which having once caught you always recognize . In no particular is this originality more conspicuous than in the quaint figures of speech with which he ...
... original flavor , dis- tinctive and natural , untainted by conventional culture , which having once caught you always recognize . In no particular is this originality more conspicuous than in the quaint figures of speech with which he ...
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... original people , and when he was thrown much with a class of men who , for lack of other amusements , entertained one another with stories . A new story in a community like that in which Lincoln spent his earlier manhood has an ...
... original people , and when he was thrown much with a class of men who , for lack of other amusements , entertained one another with stories . A new story in a community like that in which Lincoln spent his earlier manhood has an ...
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... original Nebraska doctrine . Under the Dred Scott decision " squatter sovereignty " squatted out of existence , tumbled down like temporary scaffolding , — like the mold at the foundry , served through one blast and fell back 5 into ...
... original Nebraska doctrine . Under the Dred Scott decision " squatter sovereignty " squatted out of existence , tumbled down like temporary scaffolding , — like the mold at the foundry , served through one blast and fell back 5 into ...
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... original , framed in 1787 , and 25 under which the present government first went into operation , and twelve subsequently framed amendments , the first ten of which were framed in 1789 . B sup Who were our fathers that framed the ...
... original , framed in 1787 , and 25 under which the present government first went into operation , and twelve subsequently framed amendments , the first ten of which were framed in 1789 . B sup Who were our fathers that framed the ...
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... original instrument may be fairly called our fathers who framed that part of the present government . It is almost exactly true to say they framed it , 5 and it is altogether true to say they fairly represented the opin- ion and ...
... original instrument may be fairly called our fathers who framed that part of the present government . It is almost exactly true to say they framed it , 5 and it is altogether true to say they fairly represented the opin- ion and ...
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Page 81 - seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with...
Page 74 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 92 - ... all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 65 - 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 92 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 91 - In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.
Page 69 - 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 118 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 72 - 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, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 93 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free ; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.