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... courts held near him , and had become somewhat familiar with the practical application of legal processes . He had , from the most discouraging beginnings , grown to be a notable political debater . He had had experience in legislation ...
... courts held near him , and had become somewhat familiar with the practical application of legal processes . He had , from the most discouraging beginnings , grown to be a notable political debater . He had had experience in legislation ...
Page 76
... courts at each county seat . Railroads being scarce , the earlier circuit judges made their trips from county to county on horseback , or in a gig ; and , as lawyers were not located in each county , all the prominent lawyers living ...
... courts at each county seat . Railroads being scarce , the earlier circuit judges made their trips from county to county on horseback , or in a gig ; and , as lawyers were not located in each county , all the prominent lawyers living ...
Page 78
... court - house to court - house , the stopping at cabins by the way to eat , or sleep , or feed the horse , the evenings at the country taverns , the expedients re- sorted to to secure amusement , the petty , mean and shameful cases that ...
... court - house to court - house , the stopping at cabins by the way to eat , or sleep , or feed the horse , the evenings at the country taverns , the expedients re- sorted to to secure amusement , the petty , mean and shameful cases that ...
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... Court . The controversy was about a colt , in which thirty - four wit- nesses swore that they had known the colt from its falling , and that it was the property of the plaintiff , while thirty swore that they had known the colt from its ...
... Court . The controversy was about a colt , in which thirty - four wit- nesses swore that they had known the colt from its falling , and that it was the property of the plaintiff , while thirty swore that they had known the colt from its ...
Page 85
... court room , and spend the evening with these old friends and companions of his humbler days . On one occasion , when urged not to go , he replied , " Why , aunt's heart would be broken if I should leave town without calling upon her ...
... court room , and spend the evening with these old friends and companions of his humbler days . On one occasion , when urged not to go , he replied , " Why , aunt's heart would be broken if I should leave town without calling upon her ...
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Page 161 - 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 400 - Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Page 105 - House dissenting), had declared that "by the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war exists between that Government and the United States...
Page 162 - 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 151 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 503 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Page 211 - If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it are themselves wrong and should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality — its universality ; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension — its enlargement. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon...
Page 210 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican President. In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union ; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us ? That Is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, " stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer...
Page 161 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; 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...
Page 299 - 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.